California · Nonprofit
Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center
Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,464 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($67,522). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $104k
What Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center does
Mission
With parent to parent support, education, and guidance, parents will gain a better understanding of their child with special needs and become more confident in their ability to care for and obtain the necessary services. With more knowledge and confidence, parents will not only become stronger advocates for their child, but will also become leaders in training, policy development and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
As part of the Northern California Coalition, Matrix serves as a federally-designated Parent Training & Information Center, providing information, training & support around disability issues to families of children with disabilities in Marin, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma counties. In addition, Matrix is funded through the California Department of Education to serve as a Family Empowerment Center. The activities conducted include more than 4000 contacts with families occurring in the last fiscal year, ranging from 1:1 consultations, facilitating support groups, providing trainings and workshops and attending critical meetings with some families, with an overall goal to assist families in seeking appropriate services and becoming their child?s best advocates.
$786,240 spent$788,616 earned by the program70% of program spendingVarious programs that serve to help families of children with special needs in the North Bay and surrounding areas.
$201,757 spent$233,387 earned by the program18% of program spendingMatrix is designated as an Early Start Family Resource Center, providing emotional support and information to families with children, birth to three years old, who have special needs in the counties of Marin, Solano, and Sonoma. We help families learn important strategies in navigating complex systems, provide them resources to access necessary services and prepare them for many transitions over the life of their child.
$130,931 spent$130,174 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,118,928.
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 2024 to 2025, from $421k to $104k (−75%).
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 84% · 2018 87% · 2019 86% · 2020 69% · 2021 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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
Marcia Hodges
Interim Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $21k → $8k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center’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
Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 100% · 2019 46% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center's revenue fell 98% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Department of Education$300k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Matrix A Parent Network and Resource 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.
Public support
98%
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 Matrix A Parent Network and Resource 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 Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center?
- Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,464 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($67,522). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $98,464 in grants to Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Matrix A Parent Network and Resource Center?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $67,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Matrix A Parent Network and Resource 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 7 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