California · Nonprofit
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,300,212 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($7,300,158). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Creative Solutions for Kids and Families Inc does
Mission
Empowering children and families on a journey of discovery, where creativity meets problem-solving, inspiring innovation and purposeful existence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Cskf is a foster care agency, with the mission of providing treatment services to children, youth, and families in foster care. The organization fulfills its mission by placing children with resource families where they receive treatment services to improve their emotional, social, educational, and psychological well-being to help them achieve their permanency plan.cskf also provides specialty mental health treatment programs that are designed to heal, empower, and stabilize children and youth through individualized, trauma-informed treatment services including (1) assessment (2) plan development (3) targeted case management (4) individual, family, or group therapy sessions; and (5) intensive home-based services.intensive home-based services (ihbs)-intensive service provided in the home, school, and community are intended to deliver crisis intervention, remediate targeted behaviors, and promote stability of placement. The treatment team of licensed clinician, therapist, and behavioral specialist collaborate with the agency social worker and resource parent to help clients achieve short term goals and inculcate successful behavior management skills.the organization has undertaken…
$9,405,169 spentof which $2,964,475 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,405,169.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.0M to $6.1M (+52%).
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 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 70% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC’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. 0 of the last 8 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
Ryan Cargando
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $2.7M.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54 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
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES 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
90% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES 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 CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC?
- CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,300,212 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($7,300,158). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,300,212 in grants to CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC?
- LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE is the largest funder on record, with $7,300,158 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES 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.
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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 3 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