California · Nonprofit
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN (California) receives grants from 147 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,900,883 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,847,245). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 147
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What United Friends of the Children does
Mission
United Friends of the Children empowers current and former foster youth on their journey to self-sufficiency through service-enriched education and housing programs, advocacy and consistent relationships with a community of people who care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pathways housing program - united friends' pathways housing program provides emancipated foster youth in los angeles county between the ages of 18 and 24 with housing, career/vocational counseling and development, educational mentoring and assistance, health and mental health services, life skills training, and advocacy counseling. United friends' relational approach emphasizes commitment and consistency within a framework that demands increasing levels of personal responsibility and initiative to equip and enable foster youth to become self-sufficient adults.
$4,151,558 spentof which $349,266 as grants$45,404 earned by the program60% of program spendingScholars program - united friends' scholars program allows for a 12-year continuum of support for foster youth as they navigate critical school and life transitions during the most vulnerable years of their lives. With a relationship-based approach at its core, the scholars program ensures that foster youth in grades 6-12 and former foster youth enrolled in community college or a bachelor's degree-granting institution have the skills and support to persist to and through college. Entering the workforce with a college degree or technical certificate, our students are much more likely to find a career and build a stable life for themselves.
$2,735,094 spentof which $364,673 as grants40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,886,652.
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 2022 to 2023, from $10M to $12M (+14%).
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 19% · 2018 18% · 2019 31% · 2020 39% · 2021 51% · 2022 44% · 2023 41% · 2024 55% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Matt Strieker
Chief executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 38 funders to 44 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $1.8M.
19 of 147 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 147 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
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
29% 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 UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 20% · 2019 21% · 2020 15% · 2021 17% · 2022 28% · 2023 16% — 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
38% of UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
79% of UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M 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
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $301k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$301k
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 UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: 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 UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN?
- UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN (California) receives grants from 147 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,900,883 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,847,245). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 147 organizations giving $24,900,883 in grants to UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN, 87 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,847,245 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN 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 147 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