California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING
CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,307,282 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Center for Living and Learning does
Mission
The mission of Center for Living and Learning is to improve lives by assisting individuals transitioning from treatment, incarceration, homelessness and other disadvantaged populations to obtain employment or self sufficiency through job training, job readiness and case management services. Center for Living and Learning envisions a community where every vulnerable neighbor who wishes to be self-supporting is given the opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1.apprenticeship program: apprentices in this program carry out the daily office functions of cll, including staffing a social enterprise call center. The program serves unemployed low-income trainees and those transitioning from treatment and/or incarceration through a transitional subsidized employment training program. Services include intensive support and role modeling, individualized attention related to setting boundaries, resolving personal challenges, handling anger and stress, maintaining recovery and managing finances. Support is provided by our team of peer mentors - all of whom are former clients - who have themselves surmounted significant personal barriers to become self-sufficient. Apprentices receive transportation and clothing assistance, referrals to legal assistance for assistance with expungement of records and wage garnishment reductions, and referrals to housing and counseling services. Skills obtained include customer service, program service delivery, office, and management skills. Key outcomes of the apprenticeship program include: -57 paid apprentices were provided with up to 300 hours of paid work experience. -39 apprentices were placed into…
$449,981 spentof which $10,874 as grants$131,981 earned by the program10% of program spending2.job readiness program: the program serves no/low-income individuals who experience multiple barriers to employment, including those transitioning from drug/alcohol treatment, homelessness, incarceration, and/or justice involvement. The program offers a comprehensive intake and needs assessment process and one-on-one peer mentoring services to prepare, place, and retain clients in living wage employment. Services include practice applications; resume and cover letter writing; interview techniques and follow up etiquette; proper grooming, work habits and ethics; and job retention coaching. Clients are also provided with transportation to job fairs and interviews, assistance to confront legal issues, help obtaining a california id, and assistance purchasing interview clothing and work uniforms. Fifteen computers are provided during business hours for clients to search for and apply for jobs. Cll continued to intensify its direct outreach to employers, staffing agencies and recruiters to increase positive employment outcomes. Most services are provided by our team of peer mentors. Key outcomes of the job readiness program include: cll served 483 clients with some type of employment…
$1,564,169 spentof which $234,109 as grants$1,708,081 earned by the program35% of program spendingCase management services: cll contracted with the county of los angeles - department of justice care and opportunities to provide peer guided reentry intensive case management services to those being released from the la county jail and other justice involved individuals. Cll served 566 participants with case management and navigation services to connect them to housing, employment, health, and other requested services. A total of 325 participants were provided with funds for supportive services and 305 received employment-related support services. Support services include items such as clothing, work documents, hygiene, transportation, rental assistance, and other items necessary to succeed. Financial coaching services: cll contracted with the department of financial protection & innovation to provide free financial workshops and individual financial coaching to cll's client base. A total of 207 received services resulting in the following outcomes: 79 had a budget in place, 74 opened a new bank account, 182 set at least one financial goal, 80 increased their savings amount, 45 decreased debt, 74 reviewed credit histories or pulled reports and 64 improved their credit scores.…
$2,466,412 spentof which $308,688 as grants$2,885,048 earned by the program55% of program spending3.advocacy, education and outreach: cll engaged in community education and outreach strategies over the fiscal year, including the following: -we performed education and outreach to inform those with convictions about their right to vote and how to get information on election issues. -we provided education to partnering organizations on legislative issues that affect the populations we serve. -we provided outreach services to the community to better inform local residents and businesses on the new metro rail expansion. -we provided overdose prevention training for clients and partnering agencies. -we maintained our "faces of change" campaign by participating in community events and demonstrating to the community and employers that those with convictions can change and are employable. -the executive director served as co-chair of the la regional re-entry partnership (larrp) employment committee, working to solve re-entry barriers to employment with other senior executives working in the employment and re-entry fields. -the executive director also served as chair of the san fernando employer advisory council bringing employer resources and education to sfv employers.
$442 spent$5,000 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,481,004.
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 $3.5M to $4.4M (+27%).
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 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $61k → $402k.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING’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
CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
57% 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 CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 50% · 2019 43% · 2020 46% · 2021 49% · 2022 57% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING'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
87% of CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
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 CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING: 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 CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING?
- CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,307,282 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,307,282 in grants to CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING 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 18 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