California · Nonprofit
California Parenting Institute
California Parenting Institute (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,572,727 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($546,100). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What California Parenting Institute does
Mission
California Parenting Institute (cpi dba child parent institute) is a family resource center, serving families throughout sonoma county since 1978. Our mission is to end child abuse and strengthen the health of children, parents, and families. Cpis continuum of care includes childrens trauma counseling, family resource assistance, parent education and support services, facilitated supervised visitation, support services for families with children on the autism spectrum, school-based mental health services, and a non-public school (new directions) providing adolescent special education trauma informed educational services. We advocate for policies that support families and protect children. Our key strategy is the use of the strengthening families five protective factors model, which is integrated into all of our programs. The protective factors are: parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete support in times of need, and childrens soc
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Parent support services: being a great parent is part intuition and part education -- but the core of positive parenting is strong, healthy, nurturing relationships. Our parent support programs give parents the tools and resources they need to make their families strong. Last year - 598 families received parent education and mentoring services at cpi. Our resource navigators and community health workers provide short-term one on one assistance to parents, linking them to resources such as food, housing, child care, employment, and public assistance. Last year, families utilized our free diaper service 3,210 times. 787 families also benefited from our other concrete supports programs including food, gas, and utilites assistance, and resource navigation/basic needs assistance at our two family resource center locations.counseling services: at the heart of our mission at cpi is our commitment to protecting the children and fmilies in our community. Our child & family counseling clinic provides comprehensive mental health services to children aged 0-18 and their families. Last year we provided essential mental health counseling to 145 children and parents to strengthen parental…
$4,273,794 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,273,794.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.6M to $6.0M (+29%).
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 85% · 2018 85% · 2020 85% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 93% · 2024 90% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of California Parenting Institute’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $94k → $196k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Parenting Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 29 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 Parenting Institute has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
82% 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 Parenting Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 18% · 2019 75% · 2020 67% · 2021 31% · 2022 37% · 2023 28% — 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
31% of California Parenting Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
85% of California Parenting Institute's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $616k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Parenting Institute 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 Parenting Institute
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Parenting Institute: 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 Parenting Institute?
- California Parenting Institute (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,572,727 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($546,100). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Parenting Institute have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,572,727 in grants to California Parenting Institute, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Parenting Institute?
- SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $546,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Parenting Institute 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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