California · Nonprofit
CALICO CENTER
CALICO CENTER (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,193,375 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ($2,207,262). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $990k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $786k
What Calico Center does
Mission
Calico's mission is to achive justice and healing for abused children. Calico provides a supportive and neutral enviroment to interview children and facilitate a collaborative response to child abuse allegations where the needs of the child take precedence. Calico is committed to expanding the coordination of services in california so that every child victim of abuse, neglect, and molestation has access to a professional child advocacy center.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Calico operates a children advocacy center serving alameda county in northern california. The center provides a supportive and neutral environment to interview children and facilitate a collaborative response to child abuse allegations where the needs of the child take precedence. Calico brings together law enforcement officers, child welfare workers, prosecutors, and other professionals to investigate child abuse allegations and illicit testimony from children. Calico uses nationally proven methods designed to attain thorough and accurate information while protecting the emotional needs of the victim. Calico helps victims heal by coordinating the stages of recovery through guidance by clinicians and by supporting the entire family along the path to physical and mental health and well being.
$686,954 spent63% of program spendingCalico,through its program children advocacy centers of california (cacc), is comitted to expanding the coordination of services in california so that every child victim of abuse, neglect, and molestation has access to a professional child advocacy center and multi-disciplinary team. Cacc also serves as a statewide resource for professional development, resource development, best practices, training, and children advocacy. Cal,ico has provided grants and support to over 20 organizations in califronia under the guidance of the national children's alliance.
$401,805 spent37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,088,759.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $1.3M (−36%).
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 41% · 2019 55% · 2020 63% · 2021 83% · 2022 65% · 2023 2% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CALICO CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Nadia Bueno
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $378k → $504k.
10 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $9k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Calico Center). These are real filings, and they are not money CALICO CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of CALICO CENTER’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
CALICO CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 CALICO CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 59% · 2019 70% · 2020 71% · 2021 57% · 2022 55% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of CALICO CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
CALICO CENTER draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $658k 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
CALICO CENTER's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CALICO CENTER
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 CALICO CENTER: 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 CALICO CENTER?
- CALICO CENTER (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,193,375 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ($2,207,262). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALICO CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,193,375 in grants to CALICO CENTER, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALICO CENTER?
- NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,207,262 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALICO CENTER 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.
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 22 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