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California Children and Families Foundation Inc

California Children and Families Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,263,164 to it, the largest being PRITZKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,879,510). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.7M
Revenue FY2025
19
Funders on record
$10M
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
10/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 99%

Against its field

California Children and Families Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 104 ($2.4M) Expenses 223 ($3.4M) Net assets 38 ($636k)2021 Revenue 96 ($2.2M) Expenses 142 ($2.2M) Net assets 38 ($648k)2022 Revenue 127 ($2.9M) Expenses 157 ($2.4M) Net assets 69 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 62 ($1.4M) Expenses 135 ($2.1M) Net assets 30 ($498k)2024 Revenue 93 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 66 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 74 ($1.7M) Expenses 87 ($1.3M) Net assets 87 ($1.5M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (74)Expenses (87)Net assets (87)Peer revenue range

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.

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2020
2021
2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 24% · 2020 31% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 14% · 2024 9% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of California Children and Families Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$758k
19
$1.1M
20
$12k
21
$508k
22
$658k
23
$609k
24
$356k
25
7.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $1.4M.

2 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)0% 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: $75k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest First 5 Association of California Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money California Children and Families Foundation Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of California Children and Families Foundation Inc’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 Children and Families Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

28% 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 Children and Families Foundation Inc.

28%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 81% · 2019 64% · 2020 63% · 2021 59% · 2022 59% · 2023 46%diversifying over time.

“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

58% of California Children and Families Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

72% of California Children and Families Foundation Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

IL
CA
MD
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like California Children and Families Foundation Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 16%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

55%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • First 5 Association of California · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Children and Families Foundation Inc: 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 Children and Families Foundation Inc?
California Children and Families Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,263,164 to it, the largest being PRITZKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,879,510). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does California Children and Families Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $10,263,164 in grants to California Children and Families Foundation Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of California Children and Families Foundation Inc?
PRITZKER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,879,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like California Children and Families Foundation Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing