California · Nonprofit
THE GUIDANCE CENTER
THE GUIDANCE CENTER (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,918,466 to it, the largest being THE RUDOLPH J & DAPHNE A MUNZER FOUNDATION ($400,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What The Guidance Center does
Mission
The Guidance Center provides comprehensive mental health treatment to our community's most disadvantaged children and their families struggling with mental illness and abuse, leading them toward a positive and productive future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outpatient services:mental health care is provided to children and families who cannot afford private care services. Services are provided through several programs sponsored by the los angeles county department of mental health (dmh) and other contract and grant-based programs. The Guidance Center served over 2,974 clients during the year and over 75,422 hours of mental health services. Services are provided at three clinic facilities. In addition, training is provided to mental health professionals in performing and documenting these services under dmh standards.
$12,102,203 spent$13,821,529 earned by the program67% of program spendingSchool-based program:mental health services are offered to children and teens at 24 schools within the long beach unified school district, as well as 15 schools in the paramount unified school district, 5 schools in the lynwood school district, and 16 in lausd. The program serves children and families who are reticent to approach a traditional mental health care clinic for services. Program coordinators work closely with school counselors to identify children whose behavior is interfering with their ability to function effectively in school or at home. Therapists provide individual, family, and group therapy at the school site or in the child's home, working to increase the child's ability to function at school, home and the community.
$3,070,440 spent$3,899,186 earned by the program17% of program spendingIntensive services:the organization provides specialized services for children with serious mental illnesses, who are at risk of out-of-home placement such as foster care, psychiatric hospitalization, or juvenile detention. Staff members work with clients in a community setting , at home, in school, or in courts to help the children reduce symptoms of depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, past trauma, and to improve their quality of life. Staff also help clients manage their anger, increase coping skills, reduce family conflict, and increase self-esteem.
$2,783,148 spent$3,115,829 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,955,791.
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 $6.4M to $17M (+168%).
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 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 94% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 92% · 2023 88% · 2024 92% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE GUIDANCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
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
Patricia Costales
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Luis Maimoni
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $58k → $235k.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 THE GUIDANCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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
THE GUIDANCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 78% · 2019 83% · 2020 29% · 2021 50% · 2022 27% · 2023 26% — 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
47% of THE GUIDANCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
99% of THE GUIDANCE CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $371k 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
THE GUIDANCE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE GUIDANCE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
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 THE GUIDANCE CENTER
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 THE GUIDANCE CENTER: 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 THE GUIDANCE CENTER?
- THE GUIDANCE CENTER (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,918,466 to it, the largest being THE RUDOLPH J & DAPHNE A MUNZER FOUNDATION ($400,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GUIDANCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,918,466 in grants to THE GUIDANCE CENTER, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GUIDANCE CENTER?
- THE RUDOLPH J & DAPHNE A MUNZER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GUIDANCE CENTER 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 29 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