California · Nonprofit
ASPIRANET
ASPIRANET (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,804,280 to it, the largest being Public Health Institute ($603,505). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Aspiranet does
Mission
To provide children, youth, and families with a foundation of support and services so they can succeed at home, school, and in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Intensive home based services - the organization offers six counties wraparound (wrap) and three special education local planning areas with interventions to keep children and youth in their homes and in school. Services are targeted for families who are at risk of having their children enter foster care or disrupting their educational progress. For children and youth with intellectual challenges we provide in home services to support families as they address challenging behaviors.
$23,776,442 spent27% of program spendingTransitional age youth - for young adults, 18 to 24, who have "aged out" from the foster care system, the organization has transitional housing and service programs to support these young adults as they gain self-sufficiency. The organization provides transitional housing placement (thp), thp+, and thp foster care for 10 counties offering hundreds of young adults with educational, employment, housing, and case management services.
$19,094,603 spent21% of program spendingBehavioral health - Aspiranet provides comprehensive clinic and community-based behavioral health services to children, youth, young adults, and families across multiple california counties. Services include outpatient mental health treatment (including epsdt), therapeutic behavioral services (tbs), full-service partnership (fsp), wraparound services, intensive community services, and enhanced care management. The organization operates crisis continuum programs including crisis residential programs (ccrp), crisis stabilization programs (csp), crisis stabilization units (csu), mobile crisis response, and family urgent response system (furs). Additional services include school-based mental health and risk assessments, psychiatric medication services, and specialized youth and family support programs. All services are trauma-informed and designed to stabilize crises, prevent higher levels of care, support permanency, and improve long-term behavioral health outcomes.
$16,112,935 spent18% of program spendingResource families - the organization offers treatment foster care, intensive treatment foster care, and adoption services for children with family challenges at 12 locations in california. The organization facilitates hundreds of adoption placements and finalizations for children who leave foster care to become part of forever families. The organization's resource families are dedicated to reducing the time children stay in foster care and creating permanency.residential - the organization operates a residential treatment center providing services for 52 youth between the ages of 10 and 17 referred by departments of social services, probation and mental health whose behavioral challenges are not able to be addressed at lower levels of care. The organization's excell center program qualified as a short-term residential treatment center in 2018.family and community - the organization is engaged in several community collaborations providing in-home family visitation services and child abuse prevention strategies focused on strengthening families. First five services include welcome home baby, a new mom support program and family resource centers, where families access services and…
$30,006,539 spentof which $5,178,667 as grants34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $88,990,519.
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 2024 to 2025, from $51M to $71M (+41%).
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: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 97% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ASPIRANET’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Vernon Brown
CEO / board member
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $603k → $110k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ASPIRANET’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 31 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
ASPIRANET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 ASPIRANET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 32% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 51% · 2022 73% · 2023 91% — 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.
How long its funders stay
8% of ASPIRANET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
65% of ASPIRANET's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ASPIRANET runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like ASPIRANET
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ASPIRANET: 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 ASPIRANET?
- ASPIRANET (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,804,280 to it, the largest being Public Health Institute ($603,505). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASPIRANET have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,804,280 in grants to ASPIRANET, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPIRANET?
- Public Health Institute is the largest funder on record, with $603,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPIRANET 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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