California · Nonprofit
Homeless Childrens Network
Homeless Childrens Network (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,146,938 to it, the largest being KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS ($869,368). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Homeless Childrens Network does
Mission
To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other social service agencies, to coordinate the provision of such services through and with certain homeless family shelters in San Francisco and to provide educational and charitable services to the public as permitted by Section 214 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Africentric Programs:Black Birthing Health Initiative (BBHI): BBHI is designed to promote mental health and wellness, provide client-centered and culturally tailored care, and ensure accessibility to essential services for underserved and marginalized birthing individuals and their families in San Francisco including Black/African American birthing individuals. This program serves individuals of all backgrounds, and brings focused expertise to uplift Black birthing people through services that are reflective of their cultural identity and lived experiences. BBHIs innovative model of care includes: (1) accessible and free services, (2) services provided in physical spaces that are designed to feel non-medical and welcoming, diligently avoiding the replication of clinical or oppressive environments, (3) extension of services from pregnancy and throughout infancy and childhood up to the age of three, and (4) utilization of Afri-centric and community-based models of healing that are intentionally culturally congruent.Community Holistic Overdose Prevention Program (CHOPP): CHOPP is designed to integrate outreach and awareness, education and training, and peer-based and direct treatment…
$5,086,171 spent42% of program spendingMa'at:HCNs groundbreaking Maat Program was launched to create greater opportunity for culturally responsive behavioral and mental health approaches for children, youth, and families in San Francisco who have been historically marginalized, while also supporting those impacted by systemic inequities, intergenerational trauma, and racism. Maat uses a whole-person approach to deliver Afri-centric, culturally responsive, heartfelt mental health and wellness care. The program aims to facilitate healing within the family and community systems in neighborhoods across San Francisco, and provides effective treatment to increase equity of access and remove obstacles to service at no cost to clients and their families. HCNs annual external evaluation reports for this program have identified positive impacts for not only the youth clients participating in Maat, but also for youths caregivers and even for their school systems.Ma'at Youth Leadership: HCNs Maat Youth Leadership Program supports highly vulnerable, low-income/very low-income youth and adolescents who are at risk of not making successful transitions into adulthood within San Francisco. The goal of this Afri-centric, culturally…
$3,930,620 spent33% of program spendingMental Health Services:Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT): HCNs General EPSDT Program provides culturally competent, strengths-based behavioral health services for children and youth aged 0-17. This includes underserved youth populations such as newcomer Latine youth; immigrant youth and their families; LGBTQIA+ identified youth; youth without housing; and children and youth not attending school due to mental health disorders or emotional disturbances. HCNs therapeutic model employs a strengths-based, culturally responsive, inclusive, whole-person approach to mitigate the long-term effects of traumatic events and intergenerational trauma. Services include individual therapy, family therapy, collateral support, and case management.Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (ECMHC): HCNs ECMHC Program serves young children ages 0-5, their families, and the people and providers who make up the system of care with the aim of improving social, emotional, and behavioral health and well-being of young children at sites all across San Francisco. HCN has deep experience providing ECMHC services for early care and education (ECE) programs (including family child care…
$2,948,626 spent25% of program spendingCase Management:HCNs Case Management provides culturally attuned services to individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability, facing displacement, and/or experiencing traumaincluding domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and/or systemic violencevia linkages to referrals and resources. This program adopts a holistic, trauma-informed, strength and resilience-based approach, focusing on emotional safety and empowerment as a means to facilitate clients growth and healing. HCNs Case Management offers comprehensive services including housing-focused case management, building life skills, mental health, and routes to economic independenceall of which are crucial to building resilience and stability. Case Managers also provide resources and referrals for additional critical needs, such as support with accessing credit history; rental stability; legal support; social services; employment; addressing behavioral health issues that negatively impact housing stability; and access to permanently affordable housing, including applications for placement on appropriate wait lists.
$50,571 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,015,988.
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 $5.0M to $8.1M (+62%).
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: 2017 92% · 2018 88% · 2019 95% · 2020 87% · 2021 90% · 2022 81% · 2023 95% · 2024 90% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Homeless Childrens Network’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
April Silas PhD
CEO
Board chair
Francisco Herrera
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $4k → $480k.
13 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Homeless Childrens Network’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
Homeless Childrens Network has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
36% 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 Homeless Childrens Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 48% · 2019 72% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — 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
50% of Homeless Childrens Network'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
Homeless Childrens Network draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $982k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Homeless Childrens Network has grown faster 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 Homeless Childrens Network
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
90% 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 Homeless Childrens Network: 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 Homeless Childrens Network?
- Homeless Childrens Network (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,146,938 to it, the largest being KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS ($869,368). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Homeless Childrens Network have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,146,938 in grants to Homeless Childrens Network, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Homeless Childrens Network?
- KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS is the largest funder on record, with $869,368 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Homeless Childrens Network 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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