California · Nonprofit
VALLEY FORWARD
VALLEY FORWARD (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Northern California Carpenters Regional Council ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $269k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $105k
What Valley Forward does
Mission
The purpose of this organization is to raise the level of civic engagement and the quality of life in the san joaquin valley through strategic education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of this organization is to raise the level of civic engagement and the quality of life in the san joaquin valley through strategic education
$223,238 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $223,238.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $48k to $130k (+169%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 64% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of VALLEY FORWARD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Against its field
VALLEY FORWARD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VALLEY FORWARD
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALLEY FORWARD: 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 VALLEY FORWARD?
- VALLEY FORWARD (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Northern California Carpenters Regional Council ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALLEY FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to VALLEY FORWARD.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY FORWARD?
- Northern California Carpenters Regional Council is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEY FORWARD 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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