California · Nonprofit
Where Do We Go Berkeley
Where Do We Go Berkeley (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $546,334 to it, the largest being THE LORING WOLCOTT & COOLIDGE CHARITABLE TRUST-I ($186,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $546k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Where Do We Go Berkeley does
Mission
Where Do We Go Berkeley is an advocacy group that also provides outreach andmaterial support for people experiencing homelessness in Berkeley. We providesupport in the form of food, clothing, tents, and transportation. We also work toaddress the safety concerns of people such as fire abatement and coordinatingcleanups. Through our advocacy we are actively engaged with state leadership,Cal-Trans, city council members and other government employees to fight for thefair treatment of unhoused people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Where Do We Go provides material support by handing out survival gear such as tents, tarps, sleeping bags, and other items to the homeless. We also pay for car repairs for vehicles used as a home. We pay for public storage to assist unhoused individuals with keeping their belongings We provide food, water and other items needed to survive. All of these items are freely available. WDWG hands out items 7 days a week as needed.
$112,258 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $112,258.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $62k to $10k (−83%).
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.
100% of Where Do We Go Berkeley’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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $150k → $85k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Where Do We Go Berkeley’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
Where Do We Go Berkeley leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% 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: 2021 67% · 2022 56% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
Where Do We Go Berkeley draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Where Do We Go Berkeley 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 Where Do We Go Berkeley
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.
Public support
0%
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 Where Do We Go Berkeley: 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 Where Do We Go Berkeley?
- Where Do We Go Berkeley (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $546,334 to it, the largest being THE LORING WOLCOTT & COOLIDGE CHARITABLE TRUST-I ($186,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Where Do We Go Berkeley have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $546,334 in grants to Where Do We Go Berkeley, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Where Do We Go Berkeley?
- THE LORING WOLCOTT & COOLIDGE CHARITABLE TRUST-I is the largest funder on record, with $186,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Where Do We Go Berkeley 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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