California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62,500 to it, the largest being JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ($62,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What California Alliance of Child and Family Services does
Mission
Promoting the health, well-being and safety of children, youth and families in california as a collecitve voice impacting policy and best practices to strengthen the systems that serve them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacypolicy and advocacypolicy and advocacy are central to the ca alliance's mission. Every day, our member organizations provide essential care, stability, and hope to children, youth, and families throughout california.policy is at the core of what we do because lasting change for youth and families depends on strong, equitable, and responsive public systems. Through our advocacy, we work to remove barriers, advance solutions, and secure the resources our members need to continue their work. This year demonstrated the power of that commitment. Despite a difficult budget environment, the ca alliance, alongside many partners, secured $31.5 million in bridge funding to support foster family agencies through an unprecedented insurance crisis. With coverage becoming unaffordable or unavailable for nearly 90 percent of ffas, thousands of foster youth risked losing their homes and connections. Securing this funding was essential, reflecting the strength of our advocacy and the urgency of protecting family-based care. This investment keeps agencies operating, preserves placement capacity, and provides time to develop durable long-term solutions.2025 policytransitional housing access…
$908,716 spent63% of program spendingMember services, training & conferences accomplishments our memberswith 213 member organizations, including associate members, the ca alliance represents a statewide network that spans every county and every senate and assembly district. Our members include foster family agencies, strtps, behavioral health providers, nonpublic schools, and prevention and early intervention programs. Many have been part of the ca alliance since its inception, a reflection of the trust and long-standing partnership that define our work together.membership in the ca alliance gives organizations a strong, unified voice in policy and practice. Through strategic communications, advocacy campaigns, and capacitybuilding efforts, we ensure that members priorities are heard at the state level and that their missions are amplified. Our 14 committees and forums, including ceo-only and evolving ceo forums, bring leaders together to shape solutions, share best practices, and strengthen the systems that support children and families.members benefit from policy expertise, professional development opportunities, peer collaboration, and access to resources that help organizations navigate complex challenges. As the…
$534,361 spent$601,769 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,443,077.
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 $2.5M to $3.3M (+32%).
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: 2021 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Christine Stoner-Mertz
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $43k → $19k.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES’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.
Where its funders are
CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Childrens Services Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: 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 CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES?
- CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62,500 to it, the largest being JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ($62,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $62,500 in grants to CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES?
- JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $62,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES 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 1 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