California · Nonprofit
VENICE 2000
VENICE 2000 (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,601,426 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,315,105). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $237k
What Venice 2000 does
Mission
The mission of HELPER Foundation is to provide the resources and guidance to help struggling youth and community members of all ages to make the transition from negative anti-social behavior to positive value-oriented alternatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Gang Intervention & Preention : We provide gang reention and intervention services to the Venice and Mar Vista communities under our contracts with the LA Gang Reduction and Youth Development and the Urban Peace Institute. Our staff of 6 intervention workers 4 case managers and two peace ambassadors work with families and participants; assisting them in enhancing their lives through the provision of direct services and or access to resources through various collaborative partnership networks. As the Lead Agency we managed 35 intervention and 25 prevention clients consistently giving us a total of 60 clients erved in 6 to 12 months venice 2000 successfully assisted 300 clients through our intervention programming. We helped cllients transition off of probation ad we graduated clients from our prevention program. We also provided life skills workshops to over 200 clients and family members.
$716,132 spent$712,934 earned by the program32% of program spendingOur crew of safe passage workers ensure a safe environment around three highshools and three middle schools in the Antelope Valley Unified School District to make sure that students can safely enter the school at the start of classes and exit from school at the enbd of the day. We have have pop up events at nearby parks when school is out to provide students with opportunities for positive interaction with their peers.
$703,266 spent$699,716 earned by the program31% of program spendingAntelope Valley Trauma Prevention Initiative: Our community intervention workers interface with the community in Lancaster and Palmdale areas to educate them about the causes and effects of gang iolence ad the alternatives that can help affected youth and their families become productive members of the community. We are committed to supporting and assisting the highest-need groups victims and survivors of gang violence and their families ad at-high-risk individuals. Our organization understands the proven the importance of reducing crime and gun violence and we are proud to be part of this initiative. We have a Trauma Prevention Initive with the Office of violence prevention. Our work includes but is not limited to mental healt support employment services substance abuse prevention and yuth engagement programs. We provided the following services and activities: 1. Outreach efforts to identify high risk individuals and connect them to the appropriate resources 2. Support and assistace to surivors of gun violence and their families 3. Participation in collaborative efforts with other community organizations to ensure that we are working towards the sae goal and 4. Training and…
$297,119 spent$288,003 earned by the program13% of program spending1.Antelope Valley Youth Center 2. Wrap Around services to clients who are referred by another agency for gang-influenced behavior
$551,588 spent$789,736 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,268,105.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $644k to $1.5M (+126%).
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: 2021 53% · 2022 75% · 2023 81% · 2024 98% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of VENICE 2000’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 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
Ansar Muhammad
Executive Director
Board chair
Frank Murphy
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $34k → $28k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 VENICE 2000’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
VENICE 2000 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 VENICE 2000.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
85% of VENICE 2000'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 $247k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
VENICE 2000 has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VENICE 2000
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
90% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VENICE 2000: 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 VENICE 2000?
- VENICE 2000 (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,601,426 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,315,105). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VENICE 2000 have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,601,426 in grants to VENICE 2000, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VENICE 2000?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,315,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VENICE 2000 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 7 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