California · Nonprofit
Extraordinary Families
Extraordinary Families (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,791,785 to it, the largest being John Gogian Family Foundation ($1,109,400). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $0
What Extraordinary Families does
Mission
Our mission is to help children and youth in foster care to have the childhoods and futures they rightfully deserve.Extraordinary Families vision is that that every child, youth, and family in child welfare will have the ability to achieve their hopes, fulfill their dreams, and thrive. Our person-centered approach reduces childhood trauma, encourages safety and stability and empowers children and youth to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foster Care: We recruit, train, certify, and support foster parents to care for children entering the child welfare system. Children remain in foster care temporarily until they can safely reunify with their family, are adopted, or age out of foster care and transition into adulthood. Our work is to find families for children, not children for families.
$73,615 spent74% of program spendingTransition Age Youth: Our UP4Youth program supports young adults who will soon or have recently aged out of the foster care system and are making the transition into adulthood. Youth are empowered with resource coordination, employment services, education planning, and one-on-one mentoring as they make the critical transition to self-sufficiency.
$14,723 spent15% of program spendingAdoption: We join children and families through adoption. Our foster-to-adopt program bridges the gap between a child's need for temporary support and long-term care with a forever family. When a child in foster care cannot reunify with a biological family member, we facilitate permanency through adoption.
$10,475 spent$40,000 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $98,813.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3.5M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2018 70% · 2019 82% · 2020 84% · 2021 73% · 2022 76% · 2023 60% · 2024 73% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Leonardo Bolanos
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $14k → $1.4M.
9 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Extraordinary Families’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
Extraordinary Families has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 47% · 2019 45% · 2020 30% · 2021 32% · 2022 35% · 2023 46% — 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
30% of Extraordinary Families'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
92% of Extraordinary Families's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $237k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like Extraordinary Families
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Extraordinary Families: 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 Extraordinary Families?
- Extraordinary Families (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,791,785 to it, the largest being John Gogian Family Foundation ($1,109,400). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Extraordinary Families have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $3,791,785 in grants to Extraordinary Families, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Extraordinary Families?
- John Gogian Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,109,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Extraordinary Families 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 46 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