California · Nonprofit
PARENT SERVICES PROJECT
PARENT SERVICES PROJECT (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,297,495 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($1,800,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $489k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Parent Services Project does
Mission
The mission statement of Parent Services Project is to engage and strengthen families to take leadership for the well-being of their children, families, and communities. Our vision statement asserts that families are leaders in their children's programs, schools and communities, where they are part of building equitable partnerships based on mutual respect. Families' engagement and leadership creates social change and equity for all, and as a result, all children develop to their fullest potential surrounded by a caring community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Parent leadership training: using our leadership development curricula, leaders for change, psp builds leadership knowledge, skills and confidence among parent leaders so that they are equipped to effect change in their families and communities.
$250,764 spentof which $9,445 as grants$38,694 earned by the program31% of program spendingFamily literacy & child development support: psp supports family literacy and child development through coordination of the raising a reader (rar) book sharing program along with aprendiendo juntos, a school readiness playgroup for children aged 0-5. During the past year psp served over 2,400 children and their families through rar.
$431,742 spentof which $35,768 as grants$176,713 earned by the program53% of program spendingCommunity outreach & access to services: psp partners with community residents and local organizations to identify priorities and to organize together to advance change. We cultivate confident and skillful family and community leaders, who, working together, ensure equal access and opportunity for all families.
$51,655 spentof which $4,700 as grants6% of program spendingTechnology- equity: impact technology & shoreline connectivity are digital literacy and family engagement programs that help families connect to quality internet and teach them how to use basic technology in order to engage in their child's education in a meaningful way.
$85,238 spent$3,708 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $819,399.
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 2023 to 2024, from $816k to $1.7M (+111%).
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 7% · 2018 72% · 2019 48% · 2020 67% · 2022 3% · 2023 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of PARENT SERVICES PROJECT’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. 4 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
Balandra Fregoso
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $338k → $442k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 PARENT SERVICES PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
PARENT SERVICES PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 PARENT SERVICES PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 53% · 2019 53% · 2020 43% · 2021 44% · 2022 63% · 2023 45% — 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
43% of PARENT SERVICES PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
PARENT SERVICES PROJECT draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
PARENT SERVICES PROJECT is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PARENT SERVICES PROJECT
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 PARENT SERVICES PROJECT: 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 PARENT SERVICES PROJECT?
- PARENT SERVICES PROJECT (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,297,495 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($1,800,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARENT SERVICES PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $4,297,495 in grants to PARENT SERVICES PROJECT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARENT SERVICES PROJECT?
- LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARENT SERVICES PROJECT 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 20 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