California · Nonprofit
E CENTER
E CENTER (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,290 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 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
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $11M
What E Center does
Mission
E Center builds healthy communities through education, employment and environmental awareness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
We now have a calaim program that provides community support to qualified individuals. E Center focuses on addressing social drivers of health and delivering comprehensive whole-person care, which includes housing sustainability and coordinated health-related services through a single lead care manager.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
We no longer have disaster relief or ccsra
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Head start and early head start program -provided comprehensive pre-school and/or home-based educational services on an academic calendar to low-income 3-5 year old children and their families for their head start program and low-income 0-3 year old infants and toddlers for their early head start program. The program serves yuba, sutter, and butte counties in california. The program provides quality child development to families in the areas of physical, emotional, dental, and nutritional health and the development of cognitive and social skills to support school readiness.
$14,515,261 spent$136,241 earned by the program50% of program spendingMigrant head start and migrant early head start - E Center's migrant and seasonal head start preschool centers and family child care homes provide quality child care free of cost to low income families that work in agriculture related work. Care is provided to children four weeks to five years of age. Migrant early head start program provided childcare services to infants and toddlers of migrant farm workers and their families in sonoma, lake, sutter, yolo, colusa, glenn, and tehama counties in california. Care is provided to children four weeks to three years of age.
$10,106,695 spent$4,391 earned by the program35% of program spendingGeneral child care and development program (cctr) -provide age and developmentally appropriate programs designed to facilitae the transition to preschool for 0-36 months children in educational development, health services, social services, nutritional services, parent education and parent participation. Services included age-appropriate, planned, educational activities throughout each program day that addressed all developmental domains contained in cde's drdps. The program serves 1) transitional housing facility in chico, ca (butte county), 2) two stand alone infant/toddler sites: olivehurst (yuba county) and oroville (butte county).
$1,725,354 spent$291,061 earned by the program6% of program spendingDisaster relief assistance - no longer providedthe disaster relief program is a federally funded program addressing the needs of head start families and staff who were affected by the 2017 california wildfires and 2018 camp fire. This program provides support for emergency preparations for sites, mental health and social services for children, families, and staff, and food insecurities of children and families.
$1,104,961 spent4% of program spendingChildren and adult care food program -E Center nourishes children with healthy meals, feeding minds and bodies so that children will be ready to learn and have success in school. The organization works with families to establish the positive nutritional habits and routines learned at school into their daily routines at home in order to prevent and fight conditions such as obesity. Mealtime is used as an opportunity for children to express independence and have positive adult-child interactions. All meals are served family style with the adults role modeling good habits while children are serving themselves and experimenting with a variety of nutritional foods.
$797,241 spent3% of program spendingWomen, infants and children -women, infants, and children (wic) program provides critical nutrition information, referrals, breast feeding support, and distrbutes food vouchers to clients in lake county, california. The beneficiaries of the wic program are low income pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children at nutritional risk.
$753,664 spent3% of program spendingOther program activities.
$272,668 spent$181,835 earned by the program1% of program spendingCoronavirus response and relief supplemental appropriations (cssra) - no longer providedthese one-time supplemental funds are utilized for activities pertaining to the prevention, preparation, and/or response to the coronavirus disease (covid-19). American rescue plan (arp):these one-time supplemental funds are utilized for the provision of approved services to further support in-person services for head start children.sutter county internship program (csbg):this program is an internship program to underserved college students who are residents of sutter county. This program offers a variety of career opportunities and interests while developing skills through mentorship.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,275,844.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.7M to $18M (+104%).
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 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 100% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of E CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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
Steve Ly
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Sharron Zoller
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $34.
2 of 2 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 E CENTER’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
E CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 E CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of E CENTER'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. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
E CENTER's revenue grew 43% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding E CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $264.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$264.3M
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 E CENTER
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
92% 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 E CENTER: 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 E CENTER?
- E CENTER (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,290 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 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 E CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,290 in grants to E CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of E CENTER?
- NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like E CENTER 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 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