California · Nonprofit
VESPER SOCIETY
VESPER SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $32M
What Vesper Society does
Programs
Direct health servicesVesper Society supports direct health services with clinic partners in san francisco bay area (asian health services, la clinica de la raza, street level health project, healthright 360, marin city health and wellness center, baywell health); humboldt county (united indian health services, california polytechnic university humboldt behavioral health triage center, open door community health centers); and the central valley (camarena health, black wellness and prosperity center, fresno american indian health project).
$3,341,272 spentSocial determinants of healthVesper Society supports socio-economic, educational, capacity building, nutritional, cultural activities that improve health outcomes and quality of life in underserved communities. Community partners include humboldt children and families foundation, two feathers native american family services, first five humboldt, california polytechnic university humboldt, nature rights council, hupa immersion nest, california lutheran university, los angeles united methodist urban foundation, california school-based health alliance, healthright 360, fresno community health improvement partnership, camarena health food bank).
$2,140,032 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 2021 to 2022, from $39M to $30M (−22%).
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.
Board chair
Lyell Sakaue
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $100k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 VESPER SOCIETY’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
VESPER SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 VESPER SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
87% of VESPER SOCIETY'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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
VESPER SOCIETY receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $115k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VESPER SOCIETY
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VESPER SOCIETY: 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 VESPER SOCIETY?
- VESPER SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VESPER SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $115,000 in grants to VESPER SOCIETY.
- Who is the largest funder of VESPER SOCIETY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VESPER SOCIETY 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 2 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