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California · Nonprofit
WAVES OF IMPACT (California) is funded by 9 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $113,104 in grants to it, the largest being FRAZIER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WAVES OF IMPACT is funded by 9 grantmakers reporting $113k in grants to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,355 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2017
$35k from 3 funders in 2024, up from $38k and 2 in 2017.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 WAVES OF IMPACT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
WAVES OF IMPACT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2019 69% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% · 2024 57% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
17% of WAVES OF IMPACT's funders are still giving 3 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.
WAVES OF IMPACT draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 9funders 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. view filing