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California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School
California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,449 to it, the largest being McNabb Foundation ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $11M
What California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School does
Mission
To provide people with autism and other developmental disabilities the best possible opportunities for lifetime support, training and assistance to help them reach their highest potential for independence, productivity and fulfillment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
A Better Chance School ("ABC School")ABC School is a non-public school that serves children and young adults from ages 6 to 22 that have autism and other developmental disabilities. ABC School offers community-based programming which provide students the opportunity to learn generalized skills that are transferable to daily real-world settings in addition to the classroom environment. ABC School's highly specialized curriculum and highly trained staff, excel in helping students who have been unable to succeed elsewhere. ABC School's functional skills curriculum includes math, language arts, vocational training, culinary classes, art classes, music classes, travel training and self-help skills. (See continued information on Schedule O).
$3,177,402 spent$4,114,434 earned by the program63% of program spendingA Better Chance Adult Day Programs (Age 18+) ("Innovative Choices Day Program")The program's mission is to provide people with autism and other developmental disabilities the best possible opportunities for lifetime support, training and assistance to help they reach your highest potential for independence, productivity and fulfillment. (See continued information on Schedule O).
$719,854 spent$949,522 earned by the program14% of program spendingA Better Chance Supported Living ServicesABC Supported Living Services are available to adults with developmental disabilities who are actively receiving services from the Regional Center of East Bay or the Golden Gate Regional Center. The Foundation believes that people with disabilities are entitled to exercise freedom and control over their own housing and must be provided access to supports and services that allow them to live fully rounded lives within their community and ABC Supported Living Services represents the Foundation's commitment and participation in the national movement toward more mainstream living for people with developmental disabilities. (See continued information on Schedule O).
$702,892 spent$848,981 earned by the program14% of program spendingA Better Chance Industries ("ABC Industries")ABC Industries served as a program within the Foundation, offering comprehensive support, training, and employment opportunities for individuals with developmental and physical disabilities. Through the Educational and Vocational Program, participants were empowered to achieve greater independence, productivity, and personal fulfillment. Additionally, the Supported Employment Program provided job training and placement services to facilitate meaningful workforce integration.In 2023, ABC Industries was phased out, with alternative programs introduced to continue providing these essential services in place of ABC Industries:Educational and Vocational Programs - Built on a foundation of social inclusion through participation in community, the Foundation provides individualized educational, and community based social programs that are a blend of academic, cultural, recreational and environmental instruction leading to increased competencies and skills.ABC Supported EmploymentABC Supported Employment Program provides assistance to participants who are employed at various off-site businesses. The Foundation Job Coaches secure appropriate…
$423,145 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,023,293.
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 2018 to 2019, from $7.7M to $9.4M (+21%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Valisha Fullard
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $93 → $80.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School’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
California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $449 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School is better cushioned than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School: 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 Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School?
- California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,449 to it, the largest being McNabb Foundation ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,449 in grants to California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School?
- McNabb Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Autism Foundation DBA A Better Chance School 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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