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VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25

VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,626 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($140,650). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$977k
Revenue FY2024
12
Funders on record
$339k
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 122 ($1.4M) Expenses 111 ($1.4M) Net assets 99 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 121 ($1.4M) Expenses 116 ($1.5M) Net assets 98 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 85 ($980k) Expenses 85 ($1.1M) Net assets 93 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 62 ($710k) Expenses 61 ($767k) Net assets 90 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 78 ($893k) Expenses 61 ($764k) Net assets 91 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 86 ($991k) Expenses 58 ($733k) Net assets 106 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 85 ($977k) Expenses 63 ($797k) Net assets 112 ($2.3M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (85)Expenses (63)Net assets (112)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$111k
17
$4k
18
$64k
19
$89k
20
$57k
21
$128k
22
$258k
23
$179k
24
9.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $0 → $57k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $174k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Variety-The Childrens Charity of the United States). These are real filings, and they are not money VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 raised.

From the IRS filings of VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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

VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% 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 VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25.

42%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 81% · 2020 99% · 2021 62% · 2022 49% · 2023 41%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

20% of VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

NY
CT
CA

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

18
20
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $298k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 5%Fundraising 17%

Governance

29
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

93%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25: 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 VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25?
VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,626 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($140,650). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $338,626 in grants to VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $140,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing