California · Nonprofit
What If Foundation
What If Foundation (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,377,105 to it, the largest being BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($298,300). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $785k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $515k
What What If Foundation does
Mission
To fund and support our Haitian partners in delivering critical food, education, and health care programs for the development of Haitian children and their families
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In November 2023, the What If Foundation welcomed Kay Lasante as a new program partner and became the fiscal sponsor for this programs founders and fundraisers, the House of Grace Catholic Worker in Philadelphia, PA. Kay Lasante, House of Health is a Haitian-operated health clinic that provides free health care to children and adults living in the Ti Plas Kazo community, the same community as the Lamanjay food program and Father Jeri School. See Part III, Line 4c for further information.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Lanmanjay Food Program - Every Monday through Friday, the Na Rive cooking team served a hot, nutritious meal to children and families. Up to 600 meals were distributed each afternoon at the community cafeteria. In addition, 570 students and staff of the Father Jeri school received lunch in the school cafeteria on school days. This is rare in Haiti since most schools are not able to provide food to their students. Na Rive also provided weekly food parcels of rice and beans for 60 families Jan August 2023 through their food pantry.
$248,481 spentof which $177,000 as grants50% of program spendingThe Father Jeri School - The Father Jeri School welcomed its first students in September 2016. In 2023, the Father Jeri School had an enrollment of over 500 students, ages 3 19, pre-k through high school. The school has 70 paid faculty and staff. Teachers have all met state-required education and training requirements. Staff also includes classroom assistants who are required to meet state mandated training. In 2023, the students achieved an 85% pass rate on national exams, a remarkable feat given the daily challenges they face. Teachers and staff worked tirelessly to support students throughout the year, including through a remote learning platform which provided remote lessons, homework, and tests during periods when the school was forced to close by government mandate during periods of unrest.
$244,931 spentof which $175,450 as grants49% of program spendingKay Lasante Health Clinic - In November 2023, the What If Foundation welcomed Kay Lasante as a new program partner and became the fiscal sponsor for this programs founders and fundraisers, the House of Grace Catholic Worker in Philadelphia, PA. Kay Lasante, House of Health is a Haitian-operated health clinic that provides free health care to children and adults living in the Ti Plas Kazo community, the same community as the Lamanjay food program and Father Jeri School. Kay Lasante was founded in 2006 by members of the House of Grace Catholic Worker (Philadelphia, PA). Kay Lasantes mission is to provide health care services with dignity and respect for those who are marginalized and lack access to care. The clinic offers primary care, OB/GYN services, health education, disease prevention, acupuncture, and community outreach to the Ti Plas Kazo community. It was the first clinic in Haiti to offer VIA cervical cancer screening and runs critical nutrition programs for children and adults. In 2023, Kay Lasante staff included three specialist physicians (GP, Pediatrician, OB/GYN), licensed nurses, a Clinical Director, a Program Director, and support staff. The clinic was open four days…
$7,000 spentof which $7,000 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $500,412.
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 2020 to 2021, from $191k to $447k (+134%).
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: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of What If Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $96k → $210k.
8 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 What If 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.
How concentrated its funding is
What If Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
45% 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 What If Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 50% · 2019 44% · 2020 36% · 2021 27% · 2022 26% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
65% of What If Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
What If Foundation draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
What If Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like What If 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for What If 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 What If Foundation?
- What If Foundation (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,377,105 to it, the largest being BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($298,300). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does What If Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,377,105 in grants to What If Foundation, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of What If Foundation?
- BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $298,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like What If 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.
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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 25 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