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WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION

WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being VENABLE FOUNDATION INC ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$356k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$2.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What We Are You Foundation does

Mission

To conduct activities for the support of children, the disabled, the disenfranchised and any other lawful activities for charitable purposes

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Charitable contribution to wayfinder family services to help support children who are blind or visually impaired

    $50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

  2. Benefit concert to support children, people with disabilities and families in need

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

  3. N/a

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $50,000.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($50k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 549 ($275k) Expenses 390 ($69k) Net assets 109 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 140 ($70k) Expenses 350 ($62k) Net assets 110 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 0 ($100) Expenses 315 ($56k) Net assets 107 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 0 ($100) Expenses 390 ($69k) Net assets 104 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 135 ($68k) Expenses 48 ($9k) Net assets 107 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 2 ($841) Expenses 1127 ($200k) Net assets 98 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 711 ($356k) Expenses 344 ($61k) Net assets 111 ($2.4M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (711)Expenses (344)Net assets (111)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $2.4M (+14%).

$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.4M
$2.4M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.1M
$2.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’17
$206k
’18
$8k
’19
−$56k
’20
−$69k
’21
$59k
’22
−$199k
’23
$295k
’24
481
months of
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

Karen Slade

CEO

Board chair

Stevland Morris

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed66655555
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0010000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $25k.

Funder
'17
'18
total
Venable Foundation Incunclassified
$35k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin83% · top quartile
Months of reserve480.8mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION

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

Resolution Inc (Dba California Newsreel)76%Anarchists United Foundation75%Imagine Bus Project74%Together We Thrive Foundation74%The Morrison & Foerster Foundation74%California Rainbow for Girls Foundation Inc73%Youth Radio73%Swell Foundation73%

Nationally

Resolution Inc (Dba California Newsreel)76%Be Ready Inc75%Anarchists United Foundation75%The Andrew Weishar Foundation74%You Are Inc74%Someone Special Needs You Inc74%Imagine Bus Project74%Income Movement Foundation74%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Stevland Morris Productions · disregarded
  • The Wonder Foundation · exempt
  • Taxi Productions · corp_trust
  • Wonder Productions · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION: 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 WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION?
WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being VENABLE FOUNDATION INC ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,000 in grants to WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION?
VENABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WE ARE YOU FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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