California · Nonprofit
EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,322,813 to it, the largest being EASTER SEALS INC ($664,844). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Easterseals Northern California does
Mission
Easterseals Northern California (esnorcal) is creating a more equitable world so people with developmental disabilities can choose their path. We do this by reimagining how care and support can be better connected to fill gaps in human services across an individual's lifespan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During 2025, we continued to provide our caregiver-led applied behavioral analysis (aba) services for families. This approach to aba is rooted in our person-centeredvcare philosophy, which honors the importance of decreasing caregiver stress and increasing efficacy and empowerment through caregiver coaching. Our social skills groups (a service line that groups children and teens by age and interest to foster socialization and education enrichment), our chat program (focusing on language for children under 6), our compass-behavioral program (helps youth-aged children with organization and planning) and our connect program (coaching to increase wellbeing for families of loved ones with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities) all continued providing care to our 4,000 behavioral health clients and families with over 192,000 hours of service. Our diagnostic evaluation services continued to allow and encourage families to seek and receive assessments for autism, following an evaluation with a psychologist. In 2025, 305 clients have benefitted from this service, which reflects the need for services and resources in our region and ensures that service gaps continue to abate and…
$22,814,644 spent$20,991,101 earned by the program82% of program spendingThroughout 2025, esnorcal's early intervention (ei) program served over 1,100 families, helping children to close developmental gaps through individualized treatment plans that address delays in overall development, motor skills and language. Practitioners continued to help support families through coaching and education, as well as consulting with schools, childcare agencies and other service providers. Our ei programs serve children from birth to age 5 through our continued partnership with the numerous regional centers in northern california. We made great headway in continuing to identify the need for ei across the northernmost areas of esnorcal's region approaching the oregon border, including mendocino, shasta and humboldt counties. We maintain that recognizing delays early, being able to obtain an assessment, and moving children quickly into treatment is essential to helping them catch up during critical stages of development; by providing most of our ei services to bilingual and spanish-speaking families, our support was accessible to even more families.
$3,163,553 spent$3,296,406 earned by the program11% of program spendingIn 2025, our kaleidoscope community adult program (kcap), which supports individuals ages 18 and up with intellectual and developmental disabilities, continued to provide its community-based programming in walnut creek and dublin, focusing on community integration, socialization and independent living skills development with a creative curriculum that's hailed as being both fun and educational. Critical programs like kaleidoscope offer participants opportunities for socialization and community integration, pre-employment training, leisure and recreation, and building skills in home and personal hygiene, money management, transportation, safety and self-advocacy. This past year, kaleidoscope celebrated significant program growth in our walnut creek location with an increase in participation count by 150%. In 2025, kaleidoscope provided more than 53,000 hours of service to 66 participants, and grew its volunteer opportunities as part of its commitment to community integration and pre-vocational curriculum. Such opportunities included growing food at local community gardens, making treats for and tending to animals at local shelters, organizing donations and pricing merchandise at…
$1,766,936 spent$1,958,360 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,745,133.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $2.7M to $4.1M (+53%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Andrea Pettiford
Secretary & CEO
Board chair
Kimberly Donellan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $150k → $562k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $15M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Catalight Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA raised.
From the IRS filings of EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 60% · 2023 99% — 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.
How long its funders stay
80% of EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 60% 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
EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Catalight Foundation · exempt
- Easter Seals Hawaii · exempt
- Catalight Care Services (The Bhpn) · corp_trust
- Xolv Technology Solutions · corp_trust
- Xolv Technology Solutions Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,322,813 to it, the largest being EASTER SEALS INC ($664,844). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,322,813 in grants to EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- EASTER SEALS INC is the largest funder on record, with $664,844 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERSEALS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 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