California · Nonprofit
Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance
Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,344,428 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($556,600). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance does
Mission
We empower families and communities to be healthy, educated, and self reliant. We work to ensure that every child in our service area is educated and every family is safe,healthy,and well nourished;and we profoundly enrich the lives of our volunteers. Our programs span Education,Health,Clean Environment,Business Development, Social Services, Emergency Relief, and Volunteerism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: Central to our work is providing profoundly enriching experiences for volunteers through service and explore travel. Volunteerism provides youth, families and groups the opportotunity to experience the Mam-Maya culture and to serve in critically under-resourced communities in Guatemela. These experiences are both guided (pre-arranged by Xela AID staff) and independent (self-led), each incorporating experiences and activities that promote cultural understanding and personal growth. These volunteers not only enrich our Guatemalan communities and benefit from personal enrichment, but they often go on to serve within the organization as return volunteers, program supporters, committee members and Board members. Thus, volunteerism is core to our mission and our success.
$82,378 spent$128,773 earned by the program10% of program spendingHEALTH CARE PROGRAM: Model Excellence in Health Care in rural Guatemala.(1)Xela AID Clinic: Provides life-saving and preventative health care to a region of more than 35,000 people. Family medicine,OBGYN,dental care,optometry,ultrasound,mental healthcare,prenatal care,family planning,XD-ray,delouse/de-worm programs serving 1200+ children annually. (2)Mental Health Program:Individual and group therapy,domestic violence prevention and deescalation of violence;legal services.(3)BabyLove Newborn Essentials Program: Newborns in Guatemala are commonly born with nothing to wear but old cloth. These packs provide infant wear,diapers,bib,ointments and more for new mothers and their infants.(4)Senior Services:Provides health services and fellowship programs for critically under served seniors.
$219,652 spent$167,346 earned by the program28% of program spendingEDUCATION PROGRAM:Create educational opportunities for children and families so they may become self reliant.(1)Montessori Preschool: Provide preschoolers with high-quality instruction, nutritional supplement daily including hot meals.(2)LEAP Schlorship Program:Provide children and youth with the opportunity to attend school,afforded by sponsorships, age 3 through college. (3)Leadership Development Program: Provide intensive leadership training and community service opportunities as part of a Leadership Certificate program. Topics include public speaking,small business development,computer literacy,environmental ethics and more.(4)Study Center:Provide tutoring to children needing extra reinforcement. (5)Special Needs Program:Provide critical services to children, youth and adults with disabilities.
$298,531 spent$315,854 earned by the program38% of program spendingECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:Empower youth to start businesses and secure fair-wage employment. Develop programs and services that generate revenue to support all programs while providing job training for young adults. (1)Business Development:Provide resources to youth to launch or scale-up businesses.(2)Job Skills Training:Ensure youth are highly sought after.(3)Placement:Train youth in interview skills and developing networks.(4)Eco-Guest House:Provide room & board for volunteers
$178,564 spent$261,810 earned by the program23% of program spendingserving critically under-served communities while raising funding for mission-based programs and providing local employment.(5)Fresh Food Assistance:Sponsor fresh food assistance to subsidize access for low-income communities to highly nutritious,locally grown and produced fruits,vegetables,meats,dairy and other farm products.
$0 spent0% of program spendingEMERGENCY RELIEF:In addition to its core programs that promote sustainable community development, Xela AID recognizes that emergency situations arise that require immediate aid, normally to provide water, food,shelter,mental health or legal interventions. Programs include: (1)Emergency Food:Since the 2020 pandemic,(2)Hot meals and Nutrition:to combat widespread malnutrition which has gripped local communities, and at one point, resulting in malnutition in half of the
$7,485 spent$8,032 earned by the program1% of program spendingpopulation under age 12.(3)Aid to individuals:Food,medical care, support for critically under-served persons or those suffering abuse.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $786,610.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.4M to $3.0M (+25%).
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.
82% of Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Leslie Baer Dinkel
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Sue Rikalo
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $52k → $239k.
9 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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
Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 74% · 2019 46% · 2020 39% · 2021 31% · 2022 35% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
64% of Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $478k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $867k 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
Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance?
- Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,344,428 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($556,600). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,344,428 in grants to Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $556,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing