California · Nonprofit
Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services
Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,009,498 to it, the largest being David and Margaret Home Inc ($3,800,263). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $545k
What Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services does
Mission
Ettie Lee Youth & Family Services ("Ettie Lee") operates residential care facilities, a network of treatment foster homes, a substance abuse treatment program and provides an array of mental health services for young people and their families as well as a transitional housing program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ettie Lee owns group care homes in residential neighborhoods throughout southern California. The goal for group care is for each to be as home like as possible while at the same time serving as a therapeutic setting for the participants. There are five safe and secure group care homes that serve 50 adolescents who have severe emotional and behavioral challenges. Three homes are short term Residential Treatment Programs, and two are Shelter Care sites. Fully licensed and accredited, these homes are equipped to care for six to twelve youngsters, ages 10 to 17. A team of highly trained residential care professionals provide nurturing, around the clock supervision. Services include individual, group, and family counseling; academic and vocational assistance; independent living skills training; and recreational activities. Through individualized, innovative, and flexible services the adolescents are given every opportunity to succeed, and our staff encourages family participation in treatment. Ettie Lee also provides services to help youngsters as they transition to community living or to a lower level of care.
$3,390,386 spentof which $241,646 as grants58% of program spendingEttie Lee's Intensive Treatment Foster Care (ITFC) program cares for children with serious behavioral problems, who would otherwise require group care placement, and enables them to live in a family setting. This program follows the same model as the Foster Care Adoption Program; however, ITFC offers intensified services for foster youth who need extra structure and support. ITFC places only one foster child in a home where the child has an individualized treatment program and the foster parents receive specialized training and professional support twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.Ettie Lee's unaccompanied minor homes provide boys from 10 to 18 with residential care, mental health services, family reunification, educational, recreational services in a group setting.Ettie Lee Mental Health Programs extend to all of Ettie Lee programming - group care, foster care adoption, and Ettie Lee's community-based substance use disorder program and mental health services. The Mental Health Program is designed to meet the numerous mental health needs of children, youth, and families. Mental Health Services are provided using trauma informed treatment and evidence-based practices that…
$1,617,925 spent27% of program spendingThe Foster Care, Unaccompanied Minor and Adoption Homes provide children and youth, infants to 21 years old with therapeutic and other support services they need to heal and achieve safety, permanency, and well-being. Children who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected are placed in licensed (residential, foster and adoption), safe, loving homes. Many times, siblings are placed together providing them a permanent place to live and thrive when their own families are not able to care for them. Whenever possible, family reunification is always the first option. Youngsters receive specialized care tailored to meet their individual needs. These services include counseling, psychological testing, psychiatric services, and emancipation assistance. In addition, assessment and evaluation, individual, family and group therapy, individual and group rehabilitation activities, case management, medication support (psychiatric assessment and evaluation, medication monitoring, and psychological assessment are provided. Aftercare services are available following a child's movement to a permanent setting to provide continuity of care as needed. Ettie Lee's Intensive Treatment Foster Care (ITFC)…
$886,467 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,894,778.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.8M to $2.0M (−47%).
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 74% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% · 2024 90% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Terri Varnum
President & CEO
Board chair
Ronald J Bateman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $698k → $60k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services’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
Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
96% 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 Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 97% · 2021 88% · 2022 50% · 2023 50% — 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
44% of Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
97% of Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $851 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.
Organizations like Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ettie Lee Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services?
- Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,009,498 to it, the largest being David and Margaret Home Inc ($3,800,263). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $4,009,498 in grants to Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services?
- David and Margaret Home Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,800,263 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services 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 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