California · Nonprofit
MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER
MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER (California) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,246,039 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,246,510). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Mar Vista Family Center does
Mission
To provide low-income families with quality early childhood education, youth enrichment and educational tools to create positive change in their lives and in their community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
By youth for youth (byfy) program:byfy offers a one-of-a-kind peer focused, parent engagement program based on the shared responsibility model that features an array of activities for children and youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. Participants have access to a safe space with tutors, mentors, peers, internet, and computers. Activities include after-school tutoring, preteen groups, college prep services, leadership development, stem, and creative arts alongside health, including mental health, and wellness programming. Participants lead activities for younger children, providing them opportunities to develop leadership skills in a supportive environment. The program successfully engages youth and their families by providing the tools for them to make healthy choices as well as enhancing confidence, personal development, and youth empowerment.
$513,050 spentof which $2,500 as grants$21,084 earned by the program52% of program spendingEarly childhood education program:the early childhood education program is divided into two sub-programs: baby & me and preschool. The baby and me program was inactive during fye 2024-2025 and is planned to resume in the upcoming year.baby & me serves children 0-3, the first step in guiding individuals in early learning and developing their socio-emotional and motor skills. The preschool program welcomes children ages 3-5, following a comprehensive and integrated curriculum that enables children to obtain and use skills in all areas so that they continue to successfully develop. Children, parents, and other caregivers are introduced to and begin participating in the shared responsibility model as well as health and wellness programming. In addition, parents and caregivers serve as assistant teachers weekly and are provided with training, support, and peer learning.
$333,193 spent$13,246 earned by the program34% of program spendingCommunity program:the community program facilitates the personal growth and life skills development of local residents through use of the shared responsibility model so they can contribute to a safe and vibrant environment for themselves, their families, and their community. Mvfc facilitates monthly community meetings, where participants discuss issues affecting them and find solutions together. Community members work together with mvfc to plan a variety of community events like neighborhood clean-ups, festivals, and health education workshops. Families from the community maintain and make decisions on what they grow in the community garden at mvfc. Mvfc also provides case management and referrals to mental health and other partner organizations as needed to support the growth and change community members seek.
$135,218 spentof which $7,800 as grants$165 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $981,461.
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.
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 $5.0M to $4.5M (−9%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 0% · 2021 42% · 2022 14% · 2023 23% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Lucia Diaz
CEO
Board chair
Hilary Albright
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $380k → $507k.
10 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
58% 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 MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 34% · 2019 18% · 2020 52% · 2021 20% · 2022 31% · 2023 20% — 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 MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER'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
76% of MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER: 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 MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER?
- MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER (California) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,246,039 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,246,510). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $4,246,039 in grants to MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,246,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER 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 58 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