California · Nonprofit
SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME
SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME (California) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,167,937 to it, the largest being TERRA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($623,700). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $46M
What Sacramento Children's Home does
Mission
At the Sacramento Children's Home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Overall program service accomplishments all programs - this past fiscal year (2024-2025), the Sacramento Children's Home (sch) continued advancing our vision of a community where every family experiences well-being and every child is unconditionally loved and cared for. As we move this important work forward, sch remains a steadfast advocate for the most vulnerable children and families in our region. Over the last year, we have maintained our commitment to delivering high-quality, evidence-based programs that meet the evolving needs of youth and families throughout greater sacramento. Since 1867, sch has been dedicated to providing exceptional care for children and families facing significant challenges. Our 158-year history has positioned us as a leader in child and family services, recognized today as the region's preeminent provider of prevention, intervention, and mental health support for vulnerable children and families in our community. From offering crisis assistance for families with infants and toddlers to providing short-term residential care for foster youth who have experienced trauma, sch focuses on strengthening families and protecting children at every stage. Our…
$7,321,222 spent$4,466,307 earned by the program31% of program spendingFamily resource centers - sch operates three of sacramento county's nine birth and beyond family resource centers (frcs) in some of our area's highest-risk neighborhoods - north sacramento, meadowview, and valley hi. These areas have been identified as having higher than average levels of abuse, neglect and infant mortality rates. The family resource centers help build strong families through education, intervention, and social support. Located in three of sacramento's most diverse communities, our family resources centers offer a wide array of services that open doors to new opportunities for sacramento's most at-risk children and families. With a "no wrong door" policy, our family resource centers help maximize potential in all families we serve and never turn away a family in need. During the last fiscal year, our frcs provided 4,817 home visits and 768 intervention specialist services. 99% of families served were free of substantiated allegations of child abuse or neglect upon close of home visitation services. Crisis nursery program - sch operates sacramento county's only crisis nursery and two of only five such programs in the state of california. The Sacramento Children's…
$11,017,155 spent47% of program spendingCounseling center - the expanded sch counseling center is serving more children and youth with their caregivers than ever before. The counseling center uses innovative techniques to improve parent-child relationships and help children heal from trauma, abuse or neglect. This cohesive program fosters the development of clients' inherent strengths to promote reaching their life goals. The counseling center offers clients a supportive atmosphere that is rich in self-discovery, laughter, humility and hope in the throes of daily life challenges. Evibe (early violence intervention begins with education) - evibe is changing our community - one child, one family at a time - and is united in its goal to educate against bullying and violence. Evibe programs equip youth and their families with the tools necessary to navigate away from bullying and violence and develop safer, healthier relationships at school and at home. The source - the source is one of two urgent response programs administered by the Sacramento Children's Home. The source aims to provide support to youth up to 26 years old and caregivers during times of crisis and struggle. The program features urgent crisis support, which…
$5,048,038 spent$12,367,522 earned by the program22% of program spendingCal-furs - the california family urgent response system, or "cal-furs," is a statewide urgent response hotline to provide 24/7 support service for foster youth and resource families living throughout california. Cal-furs connects current or former foster youth up to age 21 and their caregivers to licensed professionals who provide guidance, support, and connection to critical resources. Youth throughout california and their caregivers can call and get immediate help for any big or small issues they may be having, 24/7, 365 days a year from caring and trained professionals from the sacramento-based call center.foster youth tutoring - the Sacramento Children's Home operates a tutoring program for youth with additional focused support for foster youth. The program focuses on four main pillars: tutoring, homework help, mental health support, including referrals to other services, and relationship building. This also includes book clubs and other enrichment opportunities. Due to many of our youth having high adverse childhood experiences, which have deep traumatic impacts, assisting with schooling alone may not be as impactful. Our new program is a holistic tutoring service that takes…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,386,415.
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 2020 to 2021, from $39M to $44M (+13%).
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 34% · 2018 33% · 2019 28% · 2020 27% · 2021 24% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% · 2024 23% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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
David Baker
CEO
Board chair
Meredith Grandinetti
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $364k → $624k.
12 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
61% 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 SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 21% · 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 18% — 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
52% of SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
84% of SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $883k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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
Organizations like SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME
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
93%
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 SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: 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 SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME?
- SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME (California) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,167,937 to it, the largest being TERRA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($623,700). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $4,167,937 in grants to SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME?
- TERRA FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $623,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME 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 83 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