California · Nonprofit
FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS
FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,113,701 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,625,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $946k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $8.1M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Families in Schools does
Mission
To ensure student success by building authentic partnerships between families, educators, and system leaders, and through parent-led advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Build family engagement capacity: Families in Schools continued to co-lead california's community engagement initiative (cei 1.0 and 2.0), contributing to a statewide learning community focused on strengthening family and community engagement efforts. Cei engaged over 1,400 principals, parents, family engagement staff, and students statewide, helping districts shift from basic parent involvement to authentic family empowerment aligned with state expectations. Fis also provided fee-for-service training and capacity-building to three core clients: long-time partner los angeles unified, the los angeles coalition for excellent public schools (laceps), and new york city public schools.
$898,722 spent$280,160 earned by the program66% of program spendingActivate coalitions: fis founded the read la! Coalition in november 2024, uniting 20+ partners around the goal of having 70% of lausd 3rd graders reading at grade-level by 2030. In 2025, the coalition developed a three-year strategic plan with key actions toward reaching its 2030 goal. Fis also served as co-lead in a statewide early literacy coalition to help pass legislation in california (ab 1454) that aligns k-5 literacy instruction to the science of reading. Fis literacy ambassadors traveled to sacramento for "advocacy day," helping achieve ab1454's unanimous passage in the assembly. Fis also advised lausd on best practices for implementing the state's universal literacy screener law and helped author the "readers to leaders" resolution.
$245,376 spent18% of program spendingElevate family voice: over the past year, fis recruited, trained, and supported 49 literacy ambassadors, parents, and caregivers, who hosted back-to-school events that promoted literacy, distributed children's books to families, shared literacy resources and tools at community events. They also advocated for high-quality early literacy instruction by offering public testimony in support of a literacy resolution by the lausd board of education and science of reading legislation at the state level (ab 1454). Fis also launched the read la! App (beta), giving families evidence-based tips and literacy resources, available in multiple languages.
$214,529 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,358,627.
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 $2.6M to $4.0M (+57%).
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 16% · 2020 29% · 2021 19% · 2022 43% · 2023 25% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Yolie Flores
Chief executive officer & president
Board chair
Tommy Chang
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $1.0M.
3 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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: $543k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Great Public Schools Now). These are real filings, and they are not money FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS raised.
From the IRS filings of FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
55% 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 FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 30% · 2019 21% · 2020 27% · 2021 42% · 2022 81% · 2023 24% — 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
35% of FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
89% of FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M 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
FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS: 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 FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS?
- FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,113,701 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,625,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $8,113,701 in grants to FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS 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 27 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