California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being HICKS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $274k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $850k
What Friends of the Children - Coachella Valley does
Mission
Friends of the children coachella valley (friends cv) has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in post-secondary education, serve our country, or enter the workforce, 83% of our youth receive a high school diploma or ged, 93% of youth remain free from juvenile justice system involvement, and 98% wait to become parents until after their teens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth in the friends program face considerable challenges, including placement in the foster care system, under-resourced neighborhood schools, homelessness, hunger, and disparities in access to and quality of health care. Despite these barriers, program youth enter adulthood with strong foundations for continuing acheivement: 92% go on to enroll in post- secondary education, serve our country, or enter the workforce, 83% of our youth receive a high school diploma or ged, 93% of youth remain free from juvenile justice system involvement, and 98% wait to become parents until after their teens.
$543,818 spent$273,979 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $543,818.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $896k (−34%).
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: 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Dj Wilson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of the Children). These are real filings, and they are not money FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY raised.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY: 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY?
- FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being HICKS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY?
- HICKS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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