California · Nonprofit
EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,503,443 to it, the largest being Carnegie Mellon University ($1,059,831). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Education Training and Research Associates does
Mission
Education, training and research associates ("etr") is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to improve health and increase opportunities for youth, families and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Product development & dissemination - etr is the nation's largest non-profit health education publisher of highly respected health and education resources. We develop and disseminate a substantial portfolio of science-based programs and materials that empower health and education professionals to improve outcomes in youth, families, and communities. Our products are distributed and developed in formats that meet the varied needs of our partners in multi-media formats, including curricula, pamphlets, pocket guides, e-books, and training materials that have won national health information, web health, and health literacy awards and have been recognized by the cdc, samhsa, and the u.s. Department of education.
$5,353,688 spent$10,402,654 earned by the program32% of program spendingCalifornia department of health - california department of public health funds four projects at etr related to reducing and eliminating tobacco use and its effects. Distributed over one million pieces of information and held several hundred trainings or technical assistancesessions.
$4,638,658 spent$4,294,907 earned by the program28% of program spendingAdministration for children and families etr engages vulnerable youth in program design, evaluation, and strategies to promote optimal health including preventing teen pregnancy, reducing sexually transmitted infections, promoting healthy relationships, and building communication and life skills.
$4,118,690 spent$3,931,289 earned by the program24% of program spendingCalifornia department of health - california department of public health funds four projects at etr related to reducing and eliminating tobacco use and its effects. This includes educational materials and training for health departments, community-based organizations that can be customized to our partner's needs. We have distributed over one million pieces of information and held several hundred trainings or technical assistance sessions. We work in tribal communities and rural communities and with communities where second-hand smoke exposure has particular risk for children and youth.administration for children and families etr engages youth at risk for poor health outcomes in program design, evaluation, and strategies to promote optimal health, including preventing teen pregnancy, reducing sexually transmitted infections, promoting healthy relationships, and building communication and life skills.
$2,726,305 spent$3,450,710 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,837,341.
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 $19M to $27M (+45%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES’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. 5 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
Vignetta Charles
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $256k → $5k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES’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
EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 73% · 2019 41% · 2020 38% · 2021 65% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
50% of EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44.3M on record — $44.0M federal, $390k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$39.9M
- National Science Foundation$3.9M
- Department of Defense$165k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$390k
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 EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
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 EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: 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 EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES?
- EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,503,443 to it, the largest being Carnegie Mellon University ($1,059,831). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,503,443 in grants to EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES?
- Carnegie Mellon University is the largest funder on record, with $1,059,831 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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