California · Nonprofit
Penny Lane Centers
Penny Lane Centers (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,512,410 to it, the largest being Logix Community Stars Foundation ($287,329). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Penny Lane Centers does
Mission
Penny Lane Centers ("Penny Lane") is a public non-profit organization established in 1969 and has been serving the community since. Its mission is to foster hopes and dreams and transforming lives by empowering children, youth, and families to reach their highest potential. Penny Lane provides, foster family home placement for boys and girls of all ages, a variety of community based services as well as services for those in our transitional housing and permanent housing programs. Penny Lane also offers a variety of outpatient mental health services in its 4 primary locations in Los Angeles County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mental Health - to provide mental health services to children with behavioral problems. A unique program that includes mental health services provided to clients in schools, foster homes, probation camps, group homes as well as the community. During the year covered, 152,227 units of service were provided. Intensive Services - provides services to children in danger of placement into Foster Care. A unique service for families who have children with severe emotional and behavioral problems. Wraparound focuses on building child and family strengths, fostering self-sufficiency, and promoting stability and permanency. During the year covered, 210,459 units of service were provided.
$35,497,670 spentof which $190,804 as grants$62,974 earned by the program57% of program spendingFoster Care - provides 24-hour care and adoptive services. Penny Lane works to ensure permanency for children by matching them with certified adoptive families and facilitating the adoption process. During the covered year, 202 clients were served.
$4,862,749 spentof which $2,352,617 as grants8% of program spendingIn Home Services (PFF, RHAS, RSS): Penny Lane Centers provide a comprehensive range of prevention, support, intervention, transitional and maintenance services for families in the communities of Los Angeles County.
$6,159,100 spentof which $541,034 as grants10% of program spendingThe Family Preservation Program: Goal is to keep the family united by providing In-Home Outreach Counseling services that will assist, support, inform and educate the family and is a collaborative effort between the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Department of Mental Health (DMH), Department of Probation and Penny Lane Centers. During the year covered, 269 families were served.Substance Use Disorder Residential & Outpatient funded by SAPSE - Penny Lane Centers is dedicated to working with adolescents, adults and families struggling with alcohol and other drug use. Our goal is to assist individuals along their journey in recovery. We believe in working on the core issues of substance and alcohol use by utilizing proven evidenced based practices that promote and sustain clean and sober living.Unarmed Model Crisis Response: Provide mobile crisis response services to as-needed requests from 911 operators regarding non-violent situations that occur in the City of Los Angeles that have a social services impact and would benefit from personnel trained in conflict resolution, de-escalating techniques, and other non-violent approaches.
$16,087,068 spentof which $905,901 as grants26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $62,606,587.
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.
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 $41M to $51M (+24%).
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 95% · 2018 83% · 2019 97% · 2020 93% · 2021 93% · 2022 88% · 2023 95% · 2024 94% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Wendy Carpenter
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $5k → $187k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Penny Lane Centers’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
Penny Lane Centers has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
55% 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 Penny Lane Centers.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 49% · 2019 37% · 2020 44% · 2021 37% · 2022 28% · 2023 35% — 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
31% of Penny Lane Centers's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
70% of Penny Lane Centers's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding Penny Lane Centers receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $578k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$400k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$178k
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 Penny Lane Centers
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 2 related entities
- Abbey Road Inc · exempt
- Come Together Property Managment LLC · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Penny Lane Centers?
- Penny Lane Centers (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,512,410 to it, the largest being Logix Community Stars Foundation ($287,329). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Penny Lane Centers have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,512,410 in grants to Penny Lane Centers, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Penny Lane Centers?
- Logix Community Stars Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $287,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Penny Lane Centers 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 39 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