California · Nonprofit
PARA LOS NINOS
PARA LOS NINOS (California) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,144,293 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,745,600). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55M
- Funders on record
- 161
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Para Los Ninos does
Mission
Para Los Ninos (pln) is a nonprofit organization that partners with children, youth, and their families through integrated education, wellness, support, and advocacy to address individual and systemic barriers and create pathways to success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Charter schools - elementary and middle school programs are designed to develop children's resiliency and academic achievement through meaningful participation in instruction, life skills education, and involvement in a caring community. The attributes of these programs further the children's understanding of the world and interest in the pursuit of learning. During the reporting period, approximately 1,000 students were provided services.
$15,733,674 spent33% of program spendingEarly childhood services - this program provides child care and development centers that provide early childhood education and enrichment activities for children from six weeks to five years of age. The centers also provide nutritious meals and snacks, and a wide array of family support services. During the reporting period, over 300 students were provided services.
$12,682,806 spent27% of program spendingClinical services - our mental health services offer therapeutic services to children 0-21 years of age including specialized birth to 5 services as well as trauma specific supports. Our program works collaboratively with our early education sites, charter schools and our other programs in students and community services, supporting the child or youth along with their caregivers and teachers. Our program provided more than 12,000 mental health sessions.
$7,300,320 spent16% of program spendingYouth workforce services - we prepare over 1,000 youth (ages 14 to 30) in east los angeles annually for success in post-secondary education and the workforce through paid and unpaid work experience, career counseling, job placement, mentoring, case management, and leadership development.
$4,691,311 spent10% of program spendingFamily services - through this program, families receive food, clothing, and shelter. Pln also works with families to address emotional, educational, and related concerns by integrating a full range of assistance to identify the root cause of their problems and offer them support to make positive changes.
$3,888,587 spentof which $400,185 as grants8% of program spendingParent and community engagement - Para Los Ninos runs parent engagement programs at each of our school sites and within the communities we serve, touching hundreds of families each year.
$2,787,622 spent6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $47,084,320.
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 $27M to $35M (+33%).
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 85% · 2018 91% · 2019 92% · 2020 89% · 2021 92% · 2022 91% · 2023 89% · 2024 87% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PARA LOS NINOS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Drew Furedi
President & CEO
Board chair
Marjorie E Lewis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 41 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $4.3M.
25 of 161 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 PARA LOS NINOS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 161 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
PARA LOS NINOS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
53% 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 PARA LOS NINOS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 17% · 2019 15% · 2020 12% · 2021 27% · 2022 12% · 2023 25% — 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
45% of PARA LOS NINOS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
78% of PARA LOS NINOS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
PARA LOS NINOS has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PARA LOS NINOS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.2M on record.
- Department of Education$3.1M
- Department of Justice$978k
- Department of Health and Human Services$779k
- Department of Labor$350k
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 PARA LOS NINOS
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PARA LOS NINOS: 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 PARA LOS NINOS?
- PARA LOS NINOS (California) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,144,293 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,745,600). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARA LOS NINOS have?
- IRS filings report 161 organizations giving $26,144,293 in grants to PARA LOS NINOS, 96 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARA LOS NINOS?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,745,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARA LOS NINOS 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 161 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing