California · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH
VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $982,197 to it, the largest being HERBALIFE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($227,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $982k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Volunteer Center South Bay-Harbor- Long Beach does
Mission
Empower the community to practice empathy, spread kindness,and volunteer where care is needed most.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Court referral community service program part of the california league of alternate service (crcs) programs, the volunteer center's court referral community service program provides assistance to thousands of clients annually who are given community service by the courts as an alternative sentence. Crcs staff works with eligible nonprofits in the community to help court volunteers complete their service. Crcs staff also coordinates participation in the hospital and morgue (ham) program and mothers against drunk driving (madd) victim impact panels to help build awareness and empathy for people with specific offenses. This ensures that court volunteers can maintain their employment, education and other positive influences while completingtheir community service.
$436,957 spent$432,773 earned by the program36% of program spendingOther program servicesoperation teddy bearoperation teddy bear is the volunteer centers volunteer-powered literacy program that provides an educational boost through a kind gift approximately 4,000 literacy bags filled with books, educational materials and wellness tools, along with a lesson in kindness, compassion, volunteering and identifying emotions to the most underserved first-graders in the south bay, harbor and long beach areas each year. The program also provides volunteers with an opportunity to help the children first-hand by preparing stem kits and items to be placed in the bags, and then interacting with students in 146 classrooms. During school visits, volunteers read an original story about kindness, facilitating a lesson about helping others, and they use the experience of receiving the schoolbag and the teddy bear to help the students identify, process and work through their emotions.durfee family scholarships scholarships are provided for up to eight college-bound students graduating from high schools in the south bay, harbor and long beach areas of los angeles. Recipients are selected based on their ability to overcome challenging circumstances while still…
$419,505 spent34% of program spendingFood for kids food for kids is the volunteer centers volunteer and donation-driven food pantry that provides bags of non-perishable food and health-related inserts to low-income elementary school students at partner schools each week. Volunteers sort, pack and deliver bags of food filled with enough items to make two breakfasts, two lunches and two dinners for a family of four to the schools every friday. The schools identify families with the greatest need, and those students take the bags home to share over the weekend.
$220,894 spentof which $261,213 as grants18% of program spendingImpact makers building skills for life is a program to help youth gain a deeperunderstanding of themselves and the world around them. In this 12-week program(8-weeks for summer), participants learn about the issues facing our local communityand the support resources that are in place to help address them. Through animmersive service-learning experience, youth have the opportunity to serve thecommunity and empathize with the experiences of others. Together with the caringimpact makers team and fellow peers, they uncover the tools needed to support boththemselves and others. Impact makers served 60 high school aged youth during the2023/2024 school year.
$140,466 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,217,822.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $3.0M (+26%).
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 6% · 2021 5% · 2022 1% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Dr Josh Gezahegn
President & CEO
Board chair
Kevin Morrow
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $8k → $111k.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $95k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Torrance Memorial Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH raised.
From the IRS filings of VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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
VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 45% · 2019 71% · 2020 32% · 2021 56% · 2022 40% · 2023 32% — 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
26% of VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
79% of VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH?
- VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $982,197 to it, the largest being HERBALIFE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($227,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $982,197 in grants to VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH?
- HERBALIFE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $227,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing