California · Nonprofit
Underground Grit
Underground Grit (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,600 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($115,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $161k
- Net assets
- $373k
What Underground Grit does
Mission
To provide a voice to men, women, and youth who have been system impacted and who are breaking cycles perpetuated by trauma
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
To work with men, women, and youth individuals by getting them back in the community. Underground GRIT has served over 200 youth, men and women in Orange County and throughout California by providing 24/7 services and resources. We continue to serve system impacted members who are striving to work, learn, and thrive as we create safer and healthier communities. On Estimate, we have successfully helped 50 youths and adults complete their provation and parole requirements.
$188,156 spentof which $1,209,770 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $188,156.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $119k to $496k (+315%).
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.
100% of Underground Grit’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $31k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Underground Grit’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
Underground Grit leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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
99% of Underground Grit's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
Underground Grit runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 34 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 34 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like Underground Grit
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
21% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Underground Grit: 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 Underground Grit?
- Underground Grit (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,600 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($115,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Underground Grit have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $160,600 in grants to Underground Grit, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Underground Grit?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Underground Grit 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 FY2026 (financials across 2020–2026), and the filings of 6 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