California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER
CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,898 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($211,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $441k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What California Family Life Center does
Mission
California Family Life Center's mission is to provide safety, comfort and healing to children suffering abuse and abandonment; to teach love and trust; to instill self-esteem, values and hope for the future - and in so doing, assist children trapped in hopelessness and despair become compassionate and contributing members of the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Board and care: cflc allows time and opportunities for healing through a treatment program that utilizes the "power of a normal environment", counseling, education, and independent living skill development. Caring staff members 'parent' the youth throughout the daily routine of chores, meals, school, outings, gardening, and care for pets and livestock. The youth homes provided residential treatment for 53 at risk female adolescents at 3 facilities in hemet.
$4,056,525 spentof which $283,778 as grants36% of program spendingYouth employment training: cflc's youth opportunity centers in hemet, lake elsinore, and rubidoux help identify career aptitudes for young job seekers ages 16-21, teach interview skills and customer service, arrange paid internships and employment in the business community and connect them to higher education. An experienced youth development specialist tracks each participant's progress, guiding, encouraging, coaching (and sometimes parenting) them for a full two years. The centers enrolled 1067 at risk youth in job training and education programs during the year.
$4,709,174 spentof which $827,061 as grants42% of program spendingFoster families: foster families play an active role in the foster child's education and emotional and physical health. Foster kids need advocacy at school and help with their homework, regular medical and dental checkups, many will be in counseling, and most will have frequent supervised visits with their natural parents. Children may need to be a part of a family for a few weeks, or a few years, depending on the courts' evaluation of their parent's rehabilitation. The organization placed 63 abused and neglected children in foster homes this year.
$2,476,285 spentof which $1,300,205 as grants22% of program spendingChaplaincy- the kin care programs, support relatives raising children in their extended family, served 263 families in this reporting period.
$27,641 spentof which $11,817 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,269,625.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.5M to $4.4M (+26%).
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 99% · 2018 97% · 2019 96% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% · 2024 97% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Mary Jo Ramirez
Executive director
Board chair
Patton Bart
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $186k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 FAMILY LIFE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. 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 FAMILY LIFE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 FAMILY LIFE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 65% · 2023 67% — 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
50% of CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
91% of CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside California, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 FAMILY LIFE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE 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
86% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE 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 CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER?
- CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,898 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($211,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $440,898 in grants to CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $211,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE 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.
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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 15 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