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Childrens Services Foundation Dba Catalyst Center

Promoting the health, well-being and safety of children, youth and families in california as a collective voice impacting policy and best practices to strengthen the systems that serve them.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$174k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $226k
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $3.2M
$79,929
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TLC Child & Family Services$174,101
Lighthouse Counseling and Fml$160,133
Sacramento Childrens Home$130,022
Alternative Family Services$116,833
Alameda Family Services$111,080
San Diego Center for Children$103,315
Vista Del Mar Child and Famil$103,165
Casa Pacifica Ctr for Chld$102,519
Helpline Youth Counseling Inc$101,118
Koinonia Family Services$100,516
Victor Community Support Svs$96,501
Vista Hill Foundation$95,807
McKinley Childrens Center$81,487
Edgewood Center for C&F$81,485
A greater Hope$81,485
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Lighthouse Counseling and Fml: $160k → 6%Aspiranet: $35k → 7%Unity Care Group: $48k → 8%Alternative Family Services: $117k → 9%Casa Pacifica Ctr for Chld: $103k → 10%Crittenton Services for Child: $18k → 10%Stanford Sierra Youth & Famil: $74k → 12%The Heart Matters Foster Fami: $81k → 14%New Dimensions Foster Family: $71k → 15%TLC Child & Family Services: $174k → 9%Alameda Family Services: $111k → 10%Sacramento Childrens Home: $130k → 12%PROMESA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $80k → 19%Angels Foster Family Agency: $80k → 11%Vista Del Mar Child and Famil: $103k → 14%San Diego Center for Children: $103k → 11%Foothill Family Service: $81k → 14%Wayfinder Family Services: $18k → 14%Sycamores: $81k → 14%St Annes Family Services: $5k → 14%The Village Family Services: $64k → 14%Maryvale: $59k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services
2
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
3
Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc

Our mission is to support children/youth, and their families, in and at-risk of foster care, to build hope and achieve bright futures through wellness, education, relationships, and career focused services and resources.

Health
4
Youth for Change

Youth For Change (YFC) mission is to enhance the well being of children, families, individuals, and communities.

Human Services
5
Hillsides

We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…

Human Services
6
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
7
Star View Children and Family Services

Starview children & family services provides social and mental health services in california. the services provided will embody a commitment to high clinical standards and quality improvements to assist clients to achieve their maximum…

Human Services
8
Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services

Ettie Lee Youth & Family Services ("Ettie Lee") operates residential care facilities, a network of treatment foster homes, a substance abuse treatment program and provides an array of mental health services for young people and their…

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9
Sierra Vista Child & Family Services

Sierra Vista Child & Family Services (SVCFS) is a non-profit community based organization providing services for children, youth, adults, and families since 1972 to over 16,000 children and families yearly. The agency provides an extensive…

Human Services
10
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
11
Bayfront Youth and Family Services Inc

Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and…

Health
12
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth and Families

Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Center for Children and the most unlike its peers is Socal Street Medicine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%7%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr12%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%6%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr12%40%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
14%
15,857/112,524

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
9/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TLC Child and Family Services — $174,101 · Human ServicesTLC Child and Family ServicesLighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center — $160,133 · Human ServicesLighthouse Counseling and Family Resource CenterSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME — $130,022 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOMEALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $116,833 · Human ServicesALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATIONAlameda Family Services Inc — $111,080 · Human ServicesAlameda Family Services IncSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $103,315 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDRENVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $103,165 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families — $102,519 · Human ServicesFoothill Family Service — $81,485 · Human ServicesTHE HEART MATTERS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $81,485 · Human ServicesGREATER HOPE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC — $81,485 · Human ServicesHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $81,087 · Human ServicesPromesa Behavioral Health — $80,474 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $79,929 · Human ServicesSTANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES — $73,895 · Human ServicesNEW DIMENSIONS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY INC — $70,757 · Human Services+8 more — $297,864 · Human Services+8 moreVictor Community Support Services Inc — $96,501 · HealthVictor Community Suppo…VISTA HILL FOUNDATION — $95,807 · HealthVISTA HILL FOUNDATIONMcKinley Children's Center Inc — $81,487 · HealthMcKinley Children's Ce…East Bay Agency for Children — $81,485 · HealthEast Bay Agency for Ch…EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $81,485 · HealthEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CH…Lincoln — $81,167 · HealthLincolnFRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER — $68,639 · HealthFRED FINCH YOUTH CENTE…Socal Street Medicine — $55,186 · HealthSocal Street MedicineWESTCOAST CHILDREN'S CLINIC — $38,868 · HealthWESTCOAST CHILDREN'S C…+2 more — $18,051 · HealthKOINONIA FOSTER HOMES INC — $100,516 · OtherKOINONIA FOSTER HO…Stars Behavioral Health Group — $91,427 · OtherStars Behavioral H…PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $81,485 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS FOUN…Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County — $81,165 · OtherFive Acres The Boy…PA ENTERPRISES INC — $77,178 · OtherPA ENTERPRISES INCSUMMITVIEW CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $74,952 · OtherSUMMITVIEW CHILD &…COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS — $59,182 · OtherCOMMUNITY SOLUTION…Helpline Youth Counseling Inc — $101,118 · Crime & LegalKINDFUL RESTORATION — $69,134 · Crime & LegalACTS FOUNDATION — $65,162 · Community ImprovementHAMBURGER HOME — $31,000 · Education
Human Services$1,929,629Health$698,676Other$565,905Crime & Legal$170,252Community Improvement$65,162Education$31,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center — $160,133 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME — $130,022 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAlameda Family Services Inc — $111,080 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $103,315 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $103,165 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families — $102,519 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHelpline Youth Counseling Inc — $101,118 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVictor Community Support Services Inc — $96,501 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMcKinley Children's Center Inc — $81,487 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Bay Agency for Children — $81,485 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoothill Family Service — $81,485 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $81,485 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $81,485 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLincoln — $81,167 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County — $81,165 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $81,087 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMITVIEW CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $74,952 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES — $73,895 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER — $68,639 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACTS FOUNDATION — $65,162 over 1y, 22% of budgetThe Village Family Services Inc — $63,857 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS — $59,182 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYVALE — $58,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSocal Street Medicine — $55,186 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE UNITY CARE GROUP — $47,899 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTCOAST CHILDREN'S CLINIC — $38,868 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRANET — $35,414 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMBURGER HOME — $31,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Orance County Inc — $18,233 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services — $18,069 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Resource Navigators — $11,662 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services — $5,491 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…In-N-Out Burgers Foun…Shelter Partnership I…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…California Foundation…California Community …Baby2babyThe Ralph M Parsons F…East Bay Community Fo…Henry L Guenther Foun…The Grace Helen Spear…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA40.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · California Community Foundation · Baby2baby · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Childrens Services Foundation Dba Catalyst Center funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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