California · Nonprofit
FUTURES EXPLORED INC
FUTURES EXPLORED INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,713 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($40,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Futures Explored Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to provide life skills and work-related training to adults with developmental disabilities. It supports the adults with developmental disabilities to reach their optimal level of individual potential by delivering a broad range of resources and ongoing guidance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community connections - offers support to encourage individuals to beactive in their community, develop skills to be more independent andable to direct their activities.
$2,242,170 spent$372,061 earned by the program23% of program spendingPersonal wellness - programs are designed for individuals requiring physical care and supervision who may also have medical support needs.
$2,531,679 spent$9,397 earned by the program26% of program spendingFilm and media - vocational program designed to provide working knowledge of film production and then build upon those skills with continuing studio participation.
$2,844,923 spent$11,750,789 earned by the program29% of program spendingEmployment support, business enterprises and special projects - designed to provide participants with skills, tools, and hands-on experience. Participants receive individualized on-the-job coaching, including: full-time support through the training process that fades as the job and skills needed are learned; ongoing supports include advocacy with management; interpersonal skills in the workplace; learning new or additional work tasks; managing stress.
$2,090,192 spent$20,665 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,708,964.
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 $3.4M to $9.8M (+185%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 13% · 2023 14% · 2024 6% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of FUTURES EXPLORED INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Erica Horn
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $20k → $17k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FUTURES EXPLORED INC’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
FUTURES EXPLORED INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
37% 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 FUTURES EXPLORED INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 41% · 2019 74% · 2020 48% · 2021 53% · 2022 51% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of FUTURES EXPLORED INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
96% of FUTURES EXPLORED INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FUTURES EXPLORED INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FUTURES EXPLORED INC
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
85% 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 FUTURES EXPLORED INC: 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 FUTURES EXPLORED INC?
- FUTURES EXPLORED INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,713 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($40,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUTURES EXPLORED INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $134,713 in grants to FUTURES EXPLORED INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUTURES EXPLORED INC?
- CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUTURES EXPLORED INC 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 17 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