California · Nonprofit
Family Resource Navigators
Family Resource Navigators (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,406,935 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($625,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Family Resource Navigators does
Mission
FRN provides families of children with disabilities the information and support they need to navigate complex systems, to advocate for their children's rights, to develop networks of social support, and to improve systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
FRN provides families of children with disabilities the information and support they need to navigate complex systems, to advocate for their children's rights, to develop networks of social support, and to improve systems.
$2,441,605 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,441,605.
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 2022 to 2023, from $961k to $1.4M (+49%).
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 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 83% · 2022 93% · 2023 86% · 2024 73% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Family Resource Navigators’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% 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.
Board chair
Sujatha Ranganathan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $104k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Family Resource Navigators’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
Family Resource Navigators leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 76% · 2022 74% · 2023 72% — 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
67% of Family Resource Navigators's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 58% 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
52% of Family Resource Navigators's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163k 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.
Against its field
Family Resource Navigators has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Family Resource Navigators
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
92% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Family Resource Navigators: 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 Family Resource Navigators?
- Family Resource Navigators (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,406,935 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($625,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Family Resource Navigators have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,406,935 in grants to Family Resource Navigators, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Family Resource Navigators?
- THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Family Resource Navigators 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 12 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