California · Nonprofit
Consortium for Children
Consortium for Children (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($53). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $53
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Consortium for Children does
Mission
CFC's mission is to help children and families flourish by training and supporting the child welfare professionals who serve them. We believe the best outcomes for children are advanced through the use of researched- based best practices to evaluate resource parents and to assist families in planning for and supporting the healthy development of children and youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Permanency Planning Mediation (PPM) and Covid-Relief PPM (CRPPM) are a child-focused, collaborative, confidential, and voluntary mediation process that assists birth families and potential adoptive or legal guardianship families in developing a contact plan that helps children maintain important connections post adoption or guardianship. CFC coordinates this process on behalf of the California Department of Social Services, connecting trained and experienced mediators with eligible families. Families build relationships that are in the children's best interest, which then expedite children to permanence and shorten their stays in foster care, thus providing significant cost savings to the Child Welfare System and the Courts.
$972,563 spent60% of program spendingConsortium for Children's Structured Analysis Family Evaluation Program provides training in the SAFE home study methodology for multiple sectors, including for child welfare workers. For over 15 years, this accomplished program has been used throughout the United States and Canada by both public and private agencies. In addition to training, SAFE provides home study audits and technical assistance for all SAFE jurisdictions and users.
$652,045 spent$891,446 earned by the program40% of program spendingIn Collaboration with the Adoptions Branch of the CA Dept. of Social Services Permanency Bureau, CFC implemented a Post Adoption Contact Data Collection & Analysis Project through our Permanency Planning Mediation program that endeavors to determine how the Covid-19 Pandemic has Impacted Post-Adoption Services and Operations. By mining both existing data sources and creating new data retrieval pathways for long term collection & analysis, these metrics can be used to improve existing programs for families, counties and agencies, avoid future disruptions to critical services, and contribute to thoughtful & effective policy.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,624,608.
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 2021 to 2022, from $825k to $1.0M (+26%).
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 49% · 2018 52% · 2019 53% · 2020 54% · 2021 58% · 2022 67% · 2023 63% · 2024 55% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Consortium for Children’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kelly Castaneda
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $22 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Consortium for Children’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Consortium for Children's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Consortium for Children runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Consortium for Children receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $617k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$616k
- FEDERAL$2k
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 Consortium for Children
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
84% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Consortium for Children: 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 Consortium for Children?
- Consortium for Children (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($53). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Consortium for Children have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $53 in grants to Consortium for Children, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Consortium for Children?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $53 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Consortium for Children 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 1 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