California · Nonprofit
Child and Family Guidance Center
Child and Family Guidance Center (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $700,903 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($291,650). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $701k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Child and Family Guidance Center does
Mission
CFGC's mission is to empower children and families to achieve health and well-being through innovative mental health services and community programs, upholding the values of integrity, quality, commitment, innovation and resiliency. See Schedule O.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CFGC contracts with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health to provide a comprehensive array of mental health, supportive social services, and linkages to needed resources to children and adolescents displaying significant mental health symptoms. The Child and Family Guidance Center embraces a trauma-informed, family-strengthening philosophy aimed at helping clients become empowered, overcome challenges, and flourish within the community. The Center is committed to remaining responsive to the ever-changing needs of our families, developing innovative programs and training professional staff members to work in a community setting. Outcomes include: emotional/behavioral symptom reduction, improved social and adaptive functioning, family stability, improved school performance and behavior. Eligible clients must meet criteria outlined by the LACDMH.
$24,329,275 spent92% of program spendingCFGCs Non-Public School Program, known as Northpoint School serves children ages 12to 21 with significant emotional and behavioral challenges whose needs can not be met in a regular classroom setting. Northpoint combines academic instruction with abroad spectrum of specialized services that addresses each students needs. Theeducational staff utilize an interdisciplinary team approach to developindividualized programs for each student. Students either transition back to lessrestrictive school programs or graduate with a high school degree from Northpoint.
$969,551 spent4% of program spendingFIRFHA - First 5 - LA HFA Located in Antelope Valley the program helps children from prenatal to age five to be physically and mentally healthy.
$469,494 spent2% of program spendingEnhanced Care Management is a service model designed to improve the health outcomesof individuals by offering personalized, holistic care. It addresses the complexneeds of individuals, especially those who face barriers such as chronic healthconditions, mental health challenges, homelessness, or substance use. The goal ofECM is to coordinate care across various service providers, ensuring thatindividuals have access to the necessary support at the right time and in the rightplace. At its core, ECM involves working directly with clients to assess theirneeds, create tailored care plans, and coordinate services across healthcare, mentalhealth, social services, and other community resources. The program involves closepartnerships with healthcare providers, social workers, case managers, and communityorganizations.
$316,297 spent1% of program spendingProvidence Hospital Grants provide funding to expand access to mental healthservices in the San Fernando Valley. Funding supports expansion of group therapyprograms and hiring of case managers to support families in need of mental healthservices.
$131,575 spent0% of program spendingDPH PEH Outreach and Engagement-Providing outreach at designated CES (CoordinatedEntry System) agencies and conducting Medi-Cal screening, enrollment, retention andutilization services to people experiencing homelessness (PEH).
$103,873 spent0% of program spendingGeneral Funds - Includes contributions and fundraising revenue and expenses.
$83,798 spent0% of program spendingHCAI Grant- Department of Healthcare Access and Information providesscholarships/stipends to students completing their final year in a Behavioral Healthgraduate programs to expand the quality and diversity of MH professionals in diversecommunities. Students can apply and may be awarded in exchange for a 2-year direct client service to under-served community upon completion of their education.
$71,712 spent0% of program spendingDPH Home Visiting-Provided to all CHOI (Children Health Outreach Initiative) Contractors to assist DPH (Department of Public Health) Home Visitation Program with referrals of families with children 0-5 and pregnant moms. The program provides a variety of supportive services for this population, including food, affordable housing, mental health services, legal services, pre and postpartum referrals, etc.
$53,156 spent0% of program spendingChildcare Resource Center contract - CFGC provides classroom consultation, mentalhealth education, and therapy to children attending CCRCs preschool programs.
$5,736 spent0% of program spendingBest Start Network Grant-To provide Youth Mental Health First Aid trainings to thecommunity in Best Start areas of the San Fernando Valley.
$2,669 spent0% of program spending
The 11 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,537,136.
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 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $25M (+96%).
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 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 97% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Child and Family Guidance 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
Kathleen Welch-Torres
President & CEO
Board chair
Jeanette Ward
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $76k → $54k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Child and Family Guidance Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
Child and Family Guidance Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 Child and Family Guidance Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 47% · 2019 39% · 2020 67% · 2021 57% · 2022 53% · 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
86% of Child and Family Guidance Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
Child and Family Guidance Center draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $310k 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
Child and Family Guidance Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 Child and Family Guidance 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
89% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Child and Family Guidance 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 Child and Family Guidance Center?
- Child and Family Guidance Center (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $700,903 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($291,650). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Child and Family Guidance Center have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $700,903 in grants to Child and Family Guidance Center, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Child and Family Guidance Center?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $291,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Child and Family Guidance 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 10 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