California · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC (California) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,781,969 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($7,752,500). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108M
- Funders on record
- 158
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $81M
What Children's Institute Inc does
Mission
Cii transforms the lives of children exposed to adversity and poverty in los angeles. By providing early education, behavioral health and family strengthening services, cii reaches 30,000 children and families annually in communities where support is needed the most. Cii also leads the way in trauma-informed care and evidence-based clinical treatment by training thousands of professionals and caregivers throughout the year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early childhood education:cii's early education programs engage children in learning experiences that foster emotional well-being, language and literacy and healthy development. Through these programs, children are prepared to become lifelong learners and parents are empowered to be active participants in their child's education - building a strong foundation for future success.
$38,126,654 spentof which $110,467 as grants46% of program spendingBehavioral health services: as a leader in trauma-informed care, cii provides counseling services to children, adolescents, transition-aged youth and parents. Evidence-based practices include parent-child interaction therapy, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy and child-parent psychotherapy, among others. Integral to the behavior health and wellness model is cii's community schools work which aims to effect school-wide change and improve student and family outcomes through comprehensive support for teachers and staff working in high-needs schools, engaging parents and caregivers in their child's education, and addressing barriers to access. The community schools program improves attendance for chronically absent students, improves the social-emotional wellness of children and parent and improves the stability and functioning of high needs families.
$28,494,348 spentof which $572,248 as grants35% of program spendingStrengthening families & communities:serving children and families involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems along with partnering with parents, schools, and community organizations in south la, strengthening families and communities staff promote protective facts, empower families to establish a stable environment, develop support networks, improve parenting skills, and prepare youth and families for college and/or employment. In addition, programs raise awareness about trauma and its impact on children from 0 - 5 years of age. Cii's coalition of community partners offer training, resources, and advocacy to increase community resilience and reduce trauma.
$12,050,740 spentof which $742,529 as grants$3,335 earned by the program15% of program spendingManaged care: at children's institute (cii), we believe that lifelong health stems from a holistic support network for children and families, which includes coordinated physical and mental health care services. Over the past decade, california's behavioral health landscape has evolved significantly, and cii has been actively learning, adapting, and piloting services to prepare for calaim and payment reform. Currently, cii partners with seven managed care plans to provide enhanced care management (ecm) and three housing-related community supports (cs): housing deposits, housing tenancy and sustaining services, and housing transition navigation services. Our ecm program, delivered by dedicated cii care managers, is a completely free benefit available to eligible medi-cal recipients of all ages.
$3,394,512 spentof which $173,415 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $82,066,254.
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 2019 to 2020, from $67M to $80M (+20%).
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 92% · 2018 92% · 2019 88% · 2020 84% · 2021 86% · 2022 85% · 2023 93% · 2024 83% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (17% 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
Martine Singer
President & CEO
Board chair
Tarek Kutrieh
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $2.6M → $3.7M.
15 of 158 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 158 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 INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
59% 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 INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 30% · 2019 21% · 2020 29% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 43% — 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
24% of CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
82% of CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE 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. $11M 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 INSTITUTE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $224.0M on record — $224.0M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$220.9M
- Department of Justice$3.1M
- Other Prof, Sc. & Tech.Svc$3k
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 INSTITUTE 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Children's Institute of Los Angeles · exempt
- Children's Institute of Watts · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE 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 INSTITUTE INC?
- CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC (California) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,781,969 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($7,752,500). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 158 organizations giving $39,781,969 in grants to CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,752,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE 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 158 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