California · Nonprofit
Family Support Services
Family Support Services (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,289,003 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($433,750). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Family Support Services does
Mission
Family Support Services's programs serve families, youth and children whose health and welfare are vulnerable as a result of a variety of circumstances. We provide assistance to families struggling to take care of children who are medically fragile, in foster care, or have developmental disabilities; we offer supportive services to grandparents and other relatives who provide an alternative to traditional foster care; we intervene in and prevent maltreatment of children in families that have been identified as being at high risk by local counties; and we provide mentoring, after-school and summer programming to foster children and youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Respite Care Services - During Fiscal Year July 2024 through June 2025, the San Francisco Respite Program provided in-home, out-of-home, and site-based respite and child care services to Resource Family Approval (RFA) parents (formerly known as foster parents), CalWORKs parents, caregivers with medical needs, and caregivers of medically fragile, drug-exposed, abused or neglected, and at-risk children throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Across all contracts, the program delivered a total of 18,164.00 hours of child care and respite services and supported 205 unduplicated children, helping families maintain stability, attend work or medical appointments, and reduce caregiver stress.
$2,126,363 spentof which $35,420 as grants$704,682 earned by the program44% of program spendingFamily Preservation Services -Family Support Services (FSS) provides home, office and community-based support services to Regional Center of the East Bay (RCEB) families who have children with disabilities in their care. The program provides support that helps students overcome barriers to school attendance and educational challenges in Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE) School Districts. Our Growing Up Strong (GUS) Program provides therapeutic services to children who are experiencing emotional, behavioral or social challenges. The GUS Program also provides family therapy and collateral services to the children's parents/caregivers. In our Child Abuse Prevention Intervention Treatment (CAPIT) American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Program, we provided financial support and case management to families, youth and children that are underserved in the community that are resource deprived. The Encouraging Parents in the Community (EPIC) Fathers Program provided support and a space for fathers and father figures in the community to discuss their challenges as they strive to overcome the impact of trauma on parenting and connection with their children. Program Services…
$1,516,227 spentof which $98,185 as grants$353,135 earned by the program32% of program spendingKinship Support Services Program (KSSP) provides wrap-around services to kinship, guardianship, and foster care families who are caring for a relative child or a minor who is identified as non-related extended family member. Services include information and referral, case management, family advocacy, workshops and trainings for caregivers, weekly caregiver support groups, year around programming for children and youth, and linkage to community resources. Key services provided in the 2024 2025: Case Management and assistance with navigating support systems:o 111 unduplicated families Support Groups for Caregiverso Provided 46 support groupso Averaged 11 caregivers per group: 1,061 participants hours Youth Programming: Academic and Summer Program o Supported 150 unduplicated youth, grades PreK 12: 5,301 participants hours.
$1,149,198 spentof which $57,896 as grants24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,791,788.
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. 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 $3.3M to $4.9M (+51%).
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 92% · 2019 93% · 2020 92% · 2021 93% · 2022 13% · 2023 71% · 2024 80% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Family Support Services’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
Board chair
Janette Drew
Interim CEO/Board President
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 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $126k → $235k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Support Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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
Family Support Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
68% 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 Family Support Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 42% · 2019 47% · 2020 45% · 2021 42% · 2022 33% · 2023 64% — 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
39% of Family Support Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
95% of Family Support 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. $254k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 Support Services runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Family Support Services
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Support Services: 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 Support Services?
- Family Support Services (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,289,003 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($433,750). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Family Support Services have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,289,003 in grants to Family Support Services, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Family Support Services?
- KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $433,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Family Support 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 23 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