California · Nonprofit
PADRES UNIDOS
PADRES UNIDOS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $873,521 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($245,570). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $717k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $874k
- Net assets
- $434k
What Padres Unidos does
Mission
Padres Unidos is a grass roots community support system dedicated to fostering self-sufficiency and mutual responsibility. Our commitment to all families is to cultivate education, emotional, spiritual, social, physical, and mental health growth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Early education:children attending Padres Unidos early education modules continued to show increases and improvement in the areas of basic reading, basic math and social emotional learning skills. Children participating in our early education modules begin kindergarten prepared socially and academically for the rigors of a formal education over 425 children received our early learning education support through our early education modules. 96% of parents reported observing an increase in motivation for school readiness. 93% of children showed an increase in basic math and reading skills at the end of the program.
$163,116 spent$163,927 earned by the program36% of program spendingStrong families:statistical analyses performed in collaboration with the orange county department of educationevidenced that after parent participation in the Padres Unidos education program there was an increase of 89% of parent engagement in their teeanagers education. 92% reported they were better equipped to respond with functional love to their teens at-risk behaviors. 90% of parents reported an increase in healthy communication with their youth 3 months after their return home. Furthermore, 87% of youth participants reported an increase in healthy communication with their parents and a decrease in problematic communication patterns.
$149,523 spent$149,146 earned by the program33% of program spendingCommunity engagement:as part of our community engagement initiative padres continued our community worker and outreach programs which serviced over 5200 participants (adult, youth, children and infants). Understanding the importance of addressing human connection at a biological, emotional, and social level remains of key importance for Padres Unidos. Our community outreach, education and support services have helped lower levels of anxiety and depression, increased access to resources and support to struggling families as well as increase overall wellness/ health support. This has led to an increase. Participants of our programs go on to volunteer in their communities allowing for an increase of self-sufficiency and a strengthening of their community safety net support system. 75% of the selected participants from our Padres Unidos community worker award at chapman entered into their second year of program completion in 2023.
$140,461 spent$137,595 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $453,100.
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 2021 to 2022, from $615k to $441k (−28%).
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: 2020 43% · 2021 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of PADRES UNIDOS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Patricia Perales Huerta-Meza
Executive director
Board chair
Robin Fraser
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $55k → $116k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 PADRES UNIDOS’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
PADRES UNIDOS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 PADRES UNIDOS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 64% · 2019 48% · 2020 51% · 2021 32% · 2022 83% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of PADRES UNIDOS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
67% of PADRES UNIDOS'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 $292k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $581k 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
PADRES UNIDOS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PADRES UNIDOS
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 PADRES UNIDOS: 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 PADRES UNIDOS?
- PADRES UNIDOS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $873,521 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($245,570). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PADRES UNIDOS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $873,521 in grants to PADRES UNIDOS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PADRES UNIDOS?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $245,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PADRES UNIDOS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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