California · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S FUND INC
CHILDREN'S FUND INC (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,547,969 to it, the largest being A GARY ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,087,816). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Children's Fund Inc does
Mission
Giving our most vulnerable children support, opportunity and hope by breaking destructive cycles through community partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's fund works in collaborative partnership with the county of san bernardino and loma linda university children's hospital to provide specialized response to child victims of abuse and neglect at the children's assessment center.
$1,263,001 spent23% of program spendingProviding services and support to high-risk children in san bernardino county through several methods including: offering educational supports such as scholarships and mentorship, coordinating care campaigns such as backpack drives and holiday giving, providing grants to other organizations that work with children, and adopting other special projects that benefit children in need.
$1,080,848 spent20% of program spendingDistributing holiday gifts to at-risk children including toys, clothing, and books.
$1,531,973 spent28% of program spendingServing at-risk and impoverished children by meeting their most basic needs. Based on referrals from case managers and other social workers, provide items such as food, shelter, clothing, beds, hygiene items and other critical supports as needed.supporting mentorship programs for foster youth and former foster youth, as well as providing scholarships to these youth at universities and community colleges.
$1,531,973 spent28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,407,795.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.2M to $2.2M (−33%).
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 26% · 2018 31% · 2019 46% · 2020 47% · 2021 57% · 2022 49% · 2023 49% · 2024 51% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CHILDREN'S FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Cesar Navarrete
President & CEO
Board chair
Kristin Pierce
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $157k → $1.1M.
11 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CHILDREN'S FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
CHILDREN'S FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
38% 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 CHILDREN'S FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 38% · 2019 45% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 71% · 2023 55% — 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
33% of CHILDREN'S FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
54% of CHILDREN'S FUND INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $357k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CHILDREN'S FUND INC's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHILDREN'S FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHILDREN'S FUND INC
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
89%
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 CHILDREN'S FUND INC: 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 CHILDREN'S FUND INC?
- CHILDREN'S FUND INC (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,547,969 to it, the largest being A GARY ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,087,816). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $3,547,969 in grants to CHILDREN'S FUND INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S FUND INC?
- A GARY ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,087,816 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S FUND INC 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 54 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing