California · Nonprofit
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,057,789 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($296,875). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $358k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $181k
What San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center Inc does
Mission
The san fernando valley refugee children center, inc offer a holistic approach to support, addressing legal, social and basic needs to help refugee children and their families from mexico, central america, and south america successfully integrate and thrive in their new environment in the united states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes, specifically to secure legal representation and social services for children and their families who have come to the United States seeking refuge from the violence in their countries of birth. Organization Mission: Part III Statement of Program Service AccomplishmentsMission:The Refugee Children Center (RCC) provides a healing embrace and dignified welcome to refugee children and families who journeyed from Meso and South America through the U.S.Mexico border. RCC supports their transition to life in the United States through a holistic, trauma-informed approach that addresses legal, social, and emotional needs while fostering resilience, belonging, and community connection.Program Accomplishments for 2024:RCC continued to serve refugee and immigrant families in the San Fernando Valley through integrated legal, social, and educational support programs.1. Immigration Legal Services Under Department of Justice (DOJ) Recognition and Accreditation, RCC provided 216 immigration-related services, including assistance with asylum, SIJS, and related…
$366,741 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $366,741.
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 $165k to $406k (+146%).
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: 2021 8% · 2023 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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
Mayra Medina-Nez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $59k.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
96% 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 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 56% · 2022 70% · 2023 60% — 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
14% of SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
66% of SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC'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 $359k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $699k 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.
Against its field
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC: 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 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC?
- SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,057,789 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($296,875). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,057,789 in grants to SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $296,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC 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 23 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