California · Nonprofit
WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS
WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $1k
What West Coast Credible Messengers does
Programs
Academic Credible Messenger Program - Mentorship academic support and program coordination for participating students. Includes instruction guidance and academic enrichment delivered by credible messenger contractors.
$55,226 spentBack To School Event In Ramona Park - Funding the Back to School Event at Ramona Park including catering decorations entertainment event materials and awards.
$2,500 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
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
Ryan Rising
CEO Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS’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
WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
100% 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 WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS.
“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
100% of WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Against its field
WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS: 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 WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS?
- WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $65,000 in grants to WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS?
- Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 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 2024–2025), 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