California · Nonprofit
EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC
EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,591,521 to it, the largest being Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation ($1,100,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $622M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $159M
What Easter Seals Southern California Inc does
Mission
Easter seals is leading the way to full disability inclusion and access through life-changing services and community support. For more than 100 years, easter seals has worked tirelessly with its partners to enhance quality of life and expand local access (cont. On sch. O) to community, healthcare, education and employment opportunities.easter seals southern california provides essential services and on-the-ground support to more than 29,000 people each year - from early childhood services for the critical first five years, to autism services, daily and independent living services for adults, and employment services. Easter seals public education, policy and advocacy initiatives positively shape perceptions and address the urgent and evolving needs of the one in four americans with disabilities today.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Easter seals southern ca provides a wide range of essential and live-changing services that support children and adults with disabilities to achieve their personal goals, live independently, and to be fully included in their communities, at work, at school and at home. Autism therapy services: autism therapy services help individuals with autism and related disabilities build the communication, behavioral, social, and daily living skills needed to increase independence, strengthen relationships, and participate more fully in school, home, work, and community life. Through evidence-based aba therapy, speech and language therapy, physical therapy, occupational(cont. On sch. O) therapy, and social skills support, individuals receive personalized services that help them reach their full potential and improve their overall quality of life.child development services: child development services help children from birth to age five build the educational, social, and developmental skills they need to enter kindergarten ready to learn and succeed in school. At the same time, services strengthen family stability by connecting parents and caregivers to essential community resources, including…
$530,504,957 spent$587,954,840 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $530,504,957.
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.
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 $163M to $193M (+18%).
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 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 9% · 2022 6% · 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Mark Whitley
CEO
Board chair
Mark Bertrand
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $98k → $407k.
13 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Easter Seals Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
33% 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 EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 42% · 2019 63% · 2020 44% · 2021 51% · 2022 30% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
28% of EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $833k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $88.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$88.4M
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
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 EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC?
- EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,591,521 to it, the largest being Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation ($1,100,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $4,591,521 in grants to EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC?
- Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing