California · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC
VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,699 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($42,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Volunteer Organizations Network Inc does
Mission
Connecting volunteers to organizations who provide services to people in need. Using social media, website, and an app to inspire volunteers and support organizations who help feed, clothe, shelter, and support disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Orange County, California.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Expenses related to maintaining and updating the organization's website and mobile application for volunteers and organizations to use. The mobile application and website are used to sign up volunteers and organizations. Volunteer Network OC has been approaching organizations and encouraging them to sign up and recruiting volunteers using social media and encouraging them to volunteer for the events posted by organizations. Volunteers and organizations can also share posts, photos, and other information regarding the successful events on Volunteer Network OC's social media platforms to encourage others in the community to volunteer to help the organizations provide services to disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Orange County.
$7,990 spent26% of program spendingDirect distribution of socks, warm clothing, toiletries, bagged lunches, and Norwex microfiber cloths to needy individuals at events hosted by Volunteer Network OC, Precious Life, Clothing the Homeless, Qoheleth Ministries, Isaiah House, and other organizations. The socks were donated by Bombas and distributed by Volunteer Network OC volunteers. The expenses reported here reflect the estimated value of the items that were distributed.
$22,171 spent71% of program spendingAdvertising to recruit volunteers.
$400 spent1% of program spendingFinal workers' comp insurance and remaining payroll processing expenses for Volunteer Network's formerly-paid employees, who were responsible for maintaining the website, preparing and sending out weekly emails with information on upcoming events, recruiting organizations and volunteers, creating content for Volunteer Network OC's social media pages, and communicating with volunteers and organizations. Volunteer Network currently has no employees on payroll and relies on occasional contracted labor and volunteer work only.
$745 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,306.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $26k to $51k (+95%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 13% · 2021 21% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
William L Cates
Director/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $11k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC’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
VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
98% 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 ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC'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 $699 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k 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
VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC: 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 VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC?
- VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,699 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($42,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $42,699 in grants to VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK INC 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 2019–2025), 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