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TRYBE INC

TRYBE INC (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,541,688 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($345,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.0M
Funders on record
34
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$3.7M
19/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Trybe Inc does

Mission

Trybe is a community-based nonprofit rooted in East Oakland. Trybe strengthens families by focusing on the youth and families to provide stability and sustainability needed to transform the community. Trybes mission is to break cycles of suffering and violence through its resources.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Significant activities include community food and basic needs distributions, hosting 0-5 parent child programming, youth development through sports, summer camp, internships and programming, violence prevention activities and facilitating community events.

    $4,438,520 spent$192,024 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,438,520.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 408 ($21M) Expenses 371 ($15M) Net assets 612 ($6.4M)2022 Revenue 76 ($3.9M) Expenses 136 ($5.7M) Net assets 438 ($4.6M)2023 Revenue 93 ($4.8M) Expenses 115 ($4.8M) Net assets 433 ($4.5M)2024 Revenue 78 ($4.0M) Expenses 114 ($4.8M) Net assets 358 ($3.7M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (78)Expenses (114)Net assets (358)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $6.9M (+281%).

$1.8M
$6.9M
$5.0M
$4.9M
$4.1M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 2% · 2022 21% · 2023 56% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of TRYBE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$930k
’20
$5.3M
’21
−$1.8M
’22
−$54k
’23
−$784k
’24
7.1
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed36787
Joined·+5+1+4+3
No longer listed·2034
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $53k → $371k.

14 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 TRYBE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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

TRYBE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

75% 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 TRYBE INC.

14%
largest funder
34%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 66% · 2019 68% · 2020 41% · 2021 27% · 2022 22% · 2023 28% — 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of TRYBE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

88% of TRYBE INC's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA
NE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $753k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TRYBE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−20% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding TRYBE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.

Federal$2.0M
grants $2.0Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$2.0M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like TRYBE INC

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
25%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRYBE INC?
TRYBE INC (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,541,688 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($345,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRYBE INC have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,541,688 in grants to TRYBE INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRYBE INC?
SUNLIGHT GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $345,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRYBE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 34 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