California · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What California Children and Families Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the california children and families foundation is to promote, support, and improve the health and early development of children, from the prenatal stage through five years of age.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foundations: the foundation continued its efforts to coordinate the activities of county children and families commissions with those of charitable foundations, in order to maximize their collective impact, and reduce duplication. This included support for a convening dedicated to implementation of dedicated funding streams for children.
$1,075,509 spent96% of program spendingService corps: the foundation continued its first 5 service corps, funded through the california volunteers americorps program. The california volunteers americorps program supported americorps members' school readiness program work in 11 california counties.
$42,412 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,117,921.
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.
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 $3.2M to $2.1M (−34%).
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Alethea Arguilez
Advocacy Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
California Children and Families Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 Children and Families Foundation Inc
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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 19 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