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COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,019,984 to it, the largest being TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUND ($2,549,984). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$450k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$0
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Committee to Protect California Kids does

Mission

Encouraging california voters to continue to uphold the prohibition on the sale of flavored tobacco products.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Encouraged california voters to continue to uphold the prohibition on the sale of flavored tobacco products, including by opposing all statutes and ballot initiatives that will undermine the existing prohibition.

    $23,147 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $23,147.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($500k) Expenses 100 ($113k) Net assets 100 ($387k)2018 Revenue 395 ($2.0M) Expenses 2085 ($2.4M) Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 339 ($385k) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 530 ($2.6M) Expenses 1088 ($1.2M) Net assets 366 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 8691 ($43M) Expenses 39984 ($45M) Net assets -118 ($-455439)2023 Revenue 32 ($160k) Expenses 116 ($131k) Net assets -110 ($-426863)2024 Revenue 90 ($450k) Expenses 20 ($23k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (90)Expenses (20)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $45k (−97%).

$387k
$0
$0
$1.4M
$45k
$73k
$0
2017201820202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$387k
’17
−$387k
’18
−$385k
’20
$1.4M
’21
−$1.9M
’22
$29k
’23
$427k
’24
6.7
months of
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.

2017201820202021202220232024
Listed8857433
Joined·+0·+3+0+0+0
No longer listed·0·1310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1.0M → $100k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'22
total
funders
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS’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

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS.

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 64% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS: 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 COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS?
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,019,984 to it, the largest being TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUND ($2,549,984). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,019,984 in grants to COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS?
TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,549,984 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMITTEE TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA KIDS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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