California · Nonprofit
MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION
MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,245 to it, the largest being MILDRED LUCK LEWIS FOUNDATION ($445,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $411k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $115k
What Mary Graham Childrens Foundation does
Mission
To contribute available funds to provide for the programs and equipment at mary graham shelter to improve the resident's quality of life. To provide aged out foster youth with college or trade school scholarships.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides college scholarships and tuition for non-minor children who have aged-out of the foster care system.
$246,486 spentof which $246,486 as grants71% of program spendingAdministrative costs for providing the program services.
$100,111 spent29% of program spendingThe mary graham children's foundation provides enrichment programs for the residents of mary graham children's shelter, a government foster care facility.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $346,597.
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 $303k to $118k (−61%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $77k → $113k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $285k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mary Graham Childrens Foundation Endowment Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION’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
MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 43% · 2021 35% · 2022 32% · 2023 44% — 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
53% of MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
92% of MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mary Graham Childrens Foundation Endow · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION?
- MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,245 to it, the largest being MILDRED LUCK LEWIS FOUNDATION ($445,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,104,245 in grants to MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION?
- MILDRED LUCK LEWIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 23 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