California · Nonprofit
WAKING THE VILLAGE
WAKING THE VILLAGE (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,258 to it, the largest being Sacramento Steps Forward ($107,979). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Waking the Village does
Mission
Waking the Village offers housing, arts and leadership programs, and intensive daily support so that sacramento's homeless youth and children can get busy living rather than surviving.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing programs for youth, young parents, and children: wtv's housing programs (tubman house, audre's emporium, and the village) offer housing and wrap around services to youth and children. Wtv's transitional housing communities house 56 homeless youths 18-24 years of age plus all of their children each day. Wtv partners with each to sustain housing, health & wellness, strong parent-child relationships, employment and progress toward careers. In 2025, 117 young adults and 77 children lived in wtv housing programs. 100% connected to health care. 94% engaged wellness supports. 100% engaged in employment readiness workshops and job coaching. 56% secured jobs prior to exit. All children connected to pediatricians & developmentally engaging environments. Over 95% exited to safe and stable housing.
$2,989,666 spent59% of program spendingPrograms for wellness, employment, street outreach, and prevention for youth; the creation district develops leadership and life skills throughout arts centered workshops that drive service engagement, build community, and strengthen wellness. In 2025, 511 youth engaged with the creation district with 282 workshops offered. 52% of unhoused youth connecting with the creation district engaged with next step services to resolve housing or wellness crises. The creation district's 7000 square foot site also houses our prevention and intervention team that served 716 youth in 2025 to prevent eviction, connect unhoused youth to shelters, and provide mediation support for family reunification. Over the last three years, less than 4% of the youth p&I served returned to homelessness. Street leaders, led by youth with lived experiences of homelessness, connected over 200 youth to services to address shelter and wellness needs, ensuring all engaged and stayed active in coordinated entry. The creation district also employs and supports the sacramento youth action board and their work driving policies and programs to address youth homelessness.
$1,186,338 spent$36,800 earned by the program24% of program spendingPreschool programs for children: wtv operates three licensed preschools. The art beast child development center offers 75 children full-time care in a dynamic learning environment that promotes cognitive, motor, and emotional development. The center serves all children ages 0 to 6, including children of wtv and offers free care to families living below median income. Additionally, wtv serves 39 children at muck and wonder farm schools and 29 children at the art beast studio.
$810,364 spent$898,710 earned by the program16% of program spendingGeneral programming - overarching income and expense that crosses our programs and cannot be directly tied to a single program.
$54,943 spent$5 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,041,311.
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 $1.9M to $2.7M (+38%).
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: 2017 72% · 2018 44% · 2019 57% · 2020 53% · 2021 52% · 2022 66% · 2023 60% · 2024 73% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of WAKING THE VILLAGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Bridget Alexander
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $25k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 WAKING THE VILLAGE’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
WAKING THE VILLAGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 WAKING THE VILLAGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 93% · 2022 96% · 2023 99% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of WAKING THE VILLAGE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% 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
92% of WAKING THE VILLAGE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k 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
WAKING THE VILLAGE has grown faster than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WAKING THE VILLAGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WAKING THE VILLAGE
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
95% 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 WAKING THE VILLAGE: 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 WAKING THE VILLAGE?
- WAKING THE VILLAGE (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,258 to it, the largest being Sacramento Steps Forward ($107,979). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAKING THE VILLAGE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $267,258 in grants to WAKING THE VILLAGE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAKING THE VILLAGE?
- Sacramento Steps Forward is the largest funder on record, with $107,979 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAKING THE VILLAGE 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 9 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