California · Nonprofit
Interface Children Family Services
Interface Children Family Services (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,461,332 to it, the largest being UNITED WAYS OF CALIFORNIA ($3,027,516). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Interface Children Family Services does
Mission
Since 1973, Interface has provided responsive and life-changing support for children, teens, individuals, and families through our diverse service portfolio utilizing 30+ evidence-based practices to support those who are struggling with domestic violence, human trafficking, homelessness, incarceration, child abuse, mental health concerns, and trauma-related challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
211 Information & Assistance Administers the 211 program and 24/7 call center services providing comprehensive information and referrals for health and human services to Ventura County and 30 other counties. The call center handled more than 29,900 local and 157,787 calls during FY 24/25.
$5,253,452 spent41% of program spendingMental Health & Trauma Treatment Offers low cost or no cost comprehensive mental health services for adults, families, and children. Specialized interventions are offered for recovery from family violence, child abuse and neglect, sexual abuse, victims of crime, and trauma, as well as children and youth who are experiencing difficulties succeeding in family, school, or peer settings. In FY 24/25, clinicians delivered over 3,500 hours of mental health services to 374 clients.
$2,023,303 spent16% of program spendingJustice Services Works with the probation department to serve clients that are reentering the community after incarceration. The goal of these services is to reduce recidivism and improve client functioning in the community. In FY 24/25, Justice Services provided 3,837 case management and group facilitation sessions.
$1,626,041 spent13% of program spendingHuman Trafficking Prevention & Intervention - Provides comprehensive services, support, emergency shelter, and case management to individuals who have experienced human trafficking. During FY 24/25, HTPI provided services to 70 individuals who experienced human trafficking (both sex and labor). The team delivered 48 presentations and trainings on human trafficking to community and professional groups and participated in 75 outreach and community events.
$1,374,274 spent$29,217 earned by the program11% of program spendingFamily Violence Intervention Services - Provides comprehensive support to victims of domestic violence and human trafficking, as well as community-based prevention and awareness trainings for youth, parents/caregivers, professionals, and community members. In FY 24/25, the FVIS team received more than 1,000 calls to the crisis hotline and provided more than 10,000 instances of direct service to clients in need.
$1,053,005 spent8% of program spendingYouth Crisis & Homeless Services - Serves individuals from the ages of 12-24 who are at-risk of or experiencing homelessness. During the fiscal year 24/25, Youth Crisis & Homeless Services facilitated shelter for more than 95 clients, ranging in age from 12 to 24. Outreach efforts extended to 5,030 individuals, providing them with information about available services. Throughout the year, our teams served 649 individuals with meals and offered crisis counseling to 187 clients.
$971,200 spent8% of program spendingOther program services expenses were $268,426.
$268,426 spent2% of program spendingEnhanced Care Management In March 2025, Interface launched a new Enhanced Care Management program. Enhanced Care Management (ECM) provides intensive, personalized support for high-needs individuals. ECM connects Medi-Cal members with a Lead Care Manager who coordinates complex medical, behavioral, and social needs such as housing, food, and transportation, aiming to improve health outcomes and reduce hospital visits by addressing the social determinants of health and providing in-home, community-based care. We expect to serve thousands this year, ensuring that our most vulnerable community members receive the loving care and support they deserve.
$261,052 spent2% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,830,753.
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 $6.5M to $8.4M (+29%).
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 65% · 2018 82% · 2019 78% · 2020 65% · 2021 86% · 2022 84% · 2023 87% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Interface Children Family Services’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. 4 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
Peter Gould
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $556k → $2.4M.
14 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Interface Children Family Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
Interface Children Family Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
87% 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 Interface Children Family Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 32% · 2019 43% · 2020 39% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 57% — 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
44% of Interface Children Family Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
82% of Interface Children Family 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. $4.9M 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
Interface Children Family Services has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Interface Children Family 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
80% 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 Interface Children Family 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 Interface Children Family Services?
- Interface Children Family Services (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,461,332 to it, the largest being UNITED WAYS OF CALIFORNIA ($3,027,516). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Interface Children Family Services have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $12,461,332 in grants to Interface Children Family Services, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Interface Children Family Services?
- UNITED WAYS OF CALIFORNIA is the largest funder on record, with $3,027,516 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Interface Children Family 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 59 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing