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KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County

KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $843,194 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($249,750). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$843k
Net assets
$460k
15/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County does

Mission

Our mission is to end child abuse and neglect through educating, advocating, and counseling to empower and strengthen children and families. Our vision is that all children live in a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Child Abuse/Neglect Counseling Treatment Services: Counseling services are offered at the Family Resource Centers. Services include crisis, child, individual, family and group therapy for children, individuals, and families at risk, including victims of trauma, child abuse or neglect, postpartum depression and Trauma focused cognitive behavior therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing therapy. Parent-Child Interactive Therapy employs a bug-in-the-ear device to provide live coaching to parents or caregivers interactive with their 2-7 year-old child, with the observing therapist providing auditory commands behind one-way glass in real time.

    $1,089,691 spent
    35% of program spending
  2. Family resource centers (FRC's) FRC's are one-stop, umbrella programs that offer a wide variety of family support and social services to residents in need to include Spanish, mono/bilingual and bicultural communities. KidsFirst served nearly 4,500 and provided outreach to over 10,000 individuals for Western/Southern Placer County. Target populations who are underserved or who do not otherwise have access to services. FRC staff link families with emergency services including basic needs and resources (food, shelter, clothing, and transportation) and other support services such as employment, health, mental health, and health care access to address current needs and provide a foundation for achieving stability.

    $1,036,929 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. Other Programs related to exempt purpose.

    $814,763 spent
    26% of program spending
  4. Community Education: Child abuse affects all children of all races, all income levels, all walks of life. KidsFirst is dedicated to the philosophy that prevention is the best way to end child abuse. We seek out innovative programs and invest in those proven to keep children safe from harm. Education classes include co-parenting classes to provide a positive parenting model for parents not living together to care for their child(ren), group classes for parents of children ages 2 to 17, Active Parenting for teens and a Forever Fathers program.

    $171,711 spent
    6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,113,094.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($813k)2018 Revenue 99 ($2.1M) Expenses 112 ($2.3M) Net assets 82 ($670k)2019 Revenue 107 ($2.3M) Expenses 117 ($2.4M) Net assets 74 ($606k)2020 Revenue 111 ($2.4M) Expenses 130 ($2.7M) Net assets 44 ($358k)2021 Revenue 138 ($3.0M) Expenses 136 ($2.8M) Net assets 70 ($568k)2022 Revenue 123 ($2.7M) Expenses 132 ($2.7M) Net assets 67 ($547k)2023 Revenue 66 ($1.4M) Expenses 82 ($1.7M) Net assets 37 ($305k)2024 Revenue 166 ($3.6M) Expenses 168 ($3.4M) Net assets 62 ($502k)2025 Revenue 156 ($3.4M) Expenses 174 ($3.6M) Net assets 57 ($460k)
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Revenue (156)Expenses (174)Net assets (57)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $372k to $1.3M (+241%).

$937k
$815k
$745k
$922k
$1.1M
$737k
$372k
$1.3M
$1.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2021
2022
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 91% · 2018 92% · 2019 91% · 2020 94% · 2021 94% · 2022 93% · 2023 96% · 2024 74% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

101% of KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$125k
’17
−$143k
’18
−$64k
’19
−$248k
’20
$210k
’21
−$21k
’22
−$242k
’23
$172k
’24
−$175k
’25
0.2
months of
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

Debbie Gabelich

CEO

Board chair

Daphne Copenhaver

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+2+4+1+3+3+1+4+2
No longer listed·35034131
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $114k → $110k.

7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County’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

KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County 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

86% 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 KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County.

30%
largest funder
53%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 56% · 2019 38% · 2020 56% · 2021 33% · 2022 46% · 2023 64% — 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

29% of KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County's grant income comes from California funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $221k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County's revenue grew 56% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 8%Fundraising 5%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County?
KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $843,194 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($249,750). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $843,194 in grants to KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County?
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $249,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County 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 24 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