California · Nonprofit
VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 192 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,271,338 to it, the largest being THE STANLEY & JOYCE BLACK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,176,125). 120 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54M
- Funders on record
- 192
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Vista del Mar Child and Family Services does
Mission
To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For children whose emotional, behavioral, social or other challenges prevent them from living at home, vista del mar provides a safe, home-like living environment within a comprehensive treatment setting. Our programs help troubled children make the transition back home or to self-sufficient community life. Our open, 24-bed facility for adolescent boys and girls is staffed with skilled teams of clinical social.
$17,280,012 spent38% of program spendingVista del mar provides a broad spectrum of community-based services for children, adolescents, young adults and families, including adoptions and foster home care, through our state-licensed, hague-accredited private adoption agency. We also offer individual and family counseling, parent education, teacher training, and other case-management services at more than 20 los angeles and santa monica-malibu unified school district schools. We provide child care in a network of 20 state-licensed family child care homes in the hollywood and mid-wilshire areas, as well as in-home family counseling, direct child counseling, early head start services and school readiness parent-child education and support groups, and linkage to early care and education, health and social services. Our "wraparound" services offer an alternative to out-of-home care by identifying and building upon a family's strengths and support systems, to help these vulnerable children to remain in their communities.
$16,730,925 spent$567,588 earned by the program37% of program spendingVista's non-public school is accredited by the western association of schools and colleges (wasc) and serves children, pre-school through grade 12, who have struggled in other school settings. After assessing each child and creating a comprehensive individualized education plan (iep), we tailor each child's courses to address their special needs, while encouraging them to grow emotionally and academically. In addition to traditional coursework, students may participate in a number of therapeutic arts classes and other offerings that inspire confidence as well as providing incentive to stay in school. We maintain a low student-to-teacher ratio (3:1) and our educational and clinical staff create an atmosphere of success, taking into account the personal challenges of each child's life so that they can have a positive school experience. Approximately 65% of our students continue their education after graduating from vista del mar, and our vocational skills and workability programs help students develop employable work skills for those seeking employment. Our independent living skills program helps those students who are aging out of the foster care system to learn to live on their…
$6,093,490 spent14% of program spendingVista del mar's outpatient services provides a wide range of counseling programs, including family and individual therapy, trauma recovery, an array of classes and workshops for parents and caregivers, and assessment and diagnostic services for children and adolescents with learning disabilities and other delays, including autism. Vista also offers conferences and seminars addressing current issues in child development and treatment of a variety of issues affecting children and their families. Our internationally respected postgraduate and postdoctoral training programs include extensive training and classes, supervision, and clinical work with our young people and their families. The psycho-educational training program offers extensive training and supervision in diagnostic psychological testing of children and adolescents enrolled in our outpatient therapy services programs demonstrate better management of the behavioral challenges which impact their ability to successfully function in school and in the community. Psychoeducational testing services are also available to identify learning differences and develop strategies to enhance the development of cognitive skills.…
$4,850,574 spentof which $2,171,914 as grants$5,744,838 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,955,001.
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 $70M to $65M (−7%).
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 74% · 2018 83% · 2019 79% · 2020 82% · 2021 84% · 2022 83% · 2023 81% · 2024 82% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES’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. 6 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
Roosevelena Wilson
President/chief executive officer
Board chair
Jill Friedman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 63 funders to 73 funders, grant income fell $3.2M → $2.8M.
19 of 192 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 192 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
VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 14% · 2019 18% · 2020 29% · 2021 23% · 2022 29% · 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
50% of VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
91% of VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $89.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$89.4M
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 VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND 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 VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES?
- VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 192 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,271,338 to it, the largest being THE STANLEY & JOYCE BLACK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,176,125). 120 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 192 organizations giving $21,271,338 in grants to VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES, 120 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES?
- THE STANLEY & JOYCE BLACK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,176,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 192 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