California · Nonprofit
EARLY ENGAGEMENT
EARLY ENGAGEMENT (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 0 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
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $57k
What Early Engagement does
Mission
Early Engagement supports the development of lifelong mental wellness tools (cognitive, social and emotional skills) in young children (0-3) by supporting fathers. We help fathers manage themselves to create a family mental learning environment that gives young children the best chance of developing the lifelong "mental wealth" traits of confidence, self- knowledge, resilience and people skills that lead to success in school, at work and in relationships, ultimately leading them to grow into responsible adults who can take care of themselves and others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
New parent education, focused on fathers. Increasing scope of impact via developing "electronic media delivery systems for the strong start new dads program (ssnd) - an evidence-driven pre-birth educational program designed to increase and deepen parent engagement in new fathers, while increasing couple and family mental wellness & resilience. Our aim is to expand adoption and usage of the program beyond uclahealth.
$31,551 spent59% of program spendingNew parent education, focused on fathers. In-person delivery of support, instruction and peer connection to new fathers in los angeles through start start dadtime and strong start practice. Built father engagement through direct delivery of over 2,700 person hours of free parent/child sessions through collaboration with public school system and parks/community centers and delivery of programs to father in "at risk" populations in collaboration with community partners.
$15,000 spent28% of program spendingAdvocacy & professional support - providing leadership, consulting and technical support to early education nonprofits, preschools, and community-based organizations in los angeles and nationwide, with particular attention to our specialty of father engagement. Delivery of staff support and leadership. Presentations at state-wide and national academic early childhood conferences in our field of expertise.
$7,000 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,551.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $24k to $57k (+141%).
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.
100% of EARLY ENGAGEMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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 EARLY ENGAGEMENT’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 EARLY ENGAGEMENT'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 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
EARLY ENGAGEMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like EARLY ENGAGEMENT
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.
Public support
54%
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 EARLY ENGAGEMENT: 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 EARLY ENGAGEMENT?
- EARLY ENGAGEMENT (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 0 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 EARLY ENGAGEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to EARLY ENGAGEMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY ENGAGEMENT?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM 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 EARLY ENGAGEMENT 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 2024–2025), 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