California · Nonprofit
Transformations by Bakersfield Angels
Transformations by Bakersfield Angels (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,299 to it, the largest being THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION ($51,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $128k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Transformations by Bakersfield Angels does
Mission
Our mission is to walk alongside children, youth, and families in the foster care community by offering consistent support through intentional giving, relationship building, and mentorship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transformations By Bakersfield Angels wraps community around foster families (caregivers, children in foster care, and biological/adopted children) with radical, relational support. Volunteers build relationships with their family by spending quality time with the whole family, playing games, sharing a meal, and creating connections. When our families are matched with committed volunteers who show up monthly, parents feel supported and children gain a greater sense of normalcy relational permanency, and self-confidence.
$858,419 spent80% of program spendingThe heart of the Dare to Dream Program is to walk alongside youth as they navigate life's challenges. The youth in our Dare to Dream Program need the wisdom, advice, encouragement, and community that mentors can provide. Our mentors are advocates, guides, role models, valued friends, and available resources who guide youth in their accomplishment of developmental milestones. We tell mentors that the simple act of telling their youth "I believe in you", and "You are going to do great things" can change their path completely.
$114,690 spent$1,067 earned by the program11% of program spendingThe Love Box Program wraps community around foster families (caregivers, children in foster care, and biological/adopted children) with radical, relational support. Volunteers build relationships with their family by spending quality time with the whole family, playing games, sharing a meal, and creating connections. When our families are matched with committed volunteers who show up monthly, parents feel supported and children gain a greater sense of normalcy relational permanency, and self-confidence.
$97,501 spent$337 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,070,610.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $3.2M (+132%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Marri Tillema
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $46k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Transformations by Bakersfield Angels’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Transformations by Bakersfield Angels leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Transformations by Bakersfield Angels.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 69% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
52% of Transformations by Bakersfield Angels's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $62k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Transformations by Bakersfield Angels
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Bakersfield Angels Charitable Trust · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Transformations by Bakersfield Angels: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Transformations by Bakersfield Angels?
- Transformations by Bakersfield Angels (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,299 to it, the largest being THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION ($51,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Transformations by Bakersfield Angels have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $128,299 in grants to Transformations by Bakersfield Angels, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Transformations by Bakersfield Angels?
- THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Transformations by Bakersfield Angels find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing