California · Nonprofit
The Road Ahead Family Services
The Road Ahead Family Services (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,801 to it, the largest being EMBRACE FOUNDATION ($12,760). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $691k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $-16940
What The Road Ahead Family Services does
Mission
The Road Ahead Family Services holistically cultivates loving and stable relationships that inspire hope empower individual success and strengthen the well-being of children families and communities. We provide high-quality foster care mental health services and education training opportunities at low or no cost to support children and families in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the fiscal year the organization began winding down its foster care program following the closure of its contract with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services DCFS on 6 2025. Services were gradually reduced while remaining contractual obligations and client transitions were completed. The organization continued limited mental health services while preparing for an orderly wind-down of operations.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The organization recruited trained certified and supervised resource parents while supporting the medical dental psychological educational and emotional well-being of children and nonminor dependents placed in our foster homes. We served 64 children across 12 foster homes ensuring trauma-informed care safety and placement stability. Services were funded in part through county partnerships and DCFS contracts.
$572,859 spent$636,198 earned by the program96% of program spendingWe provided accessible mental health services including individual and group therapy to 102 children youth and families helping reduce financial barriers to care. Services focused on trauma recovery emotional regulation and strengthening family stability. Through these efforts the organization delivered low- or no-cost mental health services that supported improved functioning and long-term well-being for community members. Educational programming was provided to support personal safety healthy relationships and trauma-responsive caregiving. Psychoeducation groups covered domestic violence sexual abuse awareness anger management and trauma-informed parenting improving protective factors and family resiliency for the children and caregivers we serve.
$24,313 spent$34,045 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $597,172.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $93k to $22k (−76%).
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 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of The Road Ahead Family Services’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Carla Franco
Executive Director
Board chair
San Felipe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5 → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Road Ahead Family Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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 Road Ahead Family Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
The Road Ahead Family Services draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Road Ahead Family Services's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Road Ahead Family Services
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
4%
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 Road Ahead Family Services: 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 Road Ahead Family Services?
- The Road Ahead Family Services (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,801 to it, the largest being EMBRACE FOUNDATION ($12,760). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Road Ahead Family Services have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,801 in grants to The Road Ahead Family Services, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Road Ahead Family Services?
- EMBRACE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,760 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Road Ahead Family Services 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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