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CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH
CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $281k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $166k
What California Mental Health Advocates for Children & Youth does
Mission
The primary activity of the organization is an annual three-day conference held at the asilomar conference grounds in pacific grove, california. The first "gathering" was in 1980 before the organization was officially established. It has been held in the spring of each year since that first meeting. The conference is attended by parents of children and youth with serious emotional and behavioral challenges, youth, providers, school representatives, county agency leaders, state department officials, and legislative staff. Over the year the conference has provided a forum for policy development, spawned collaboration and partnerships among counties and providers, incubated state-wide parent and youth organizations, hosted nationally recognized speakers, and showcased cutting-edge clinical behavorial health services for children, youth and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Annual in-person conference - theme "mental health is everyone's business: inclusive conversations for changing times" - three days (may 15 - 17) - 397 attendees, 33 sponsors, 15 scholarships awarded - 3 plenary sessions, 30 workshops - overall satisfaction with conference: average rating - 4.9 on 5 point scale.
$254,688 spent$267,634 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $254,688.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $57k to $127k (+124%).
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 4% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH’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 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
100% 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 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH.
“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
100% of CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH's grant income comes from California funders.
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 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH: 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 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH?
- CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH?
- KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH 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 2018–2025), 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