California · Nonprofit
VOICES FOR CHILDREN
VOICES FOR CHILDREN (California) receives grants from 205 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,021,466 to it, the largest being FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ($6,867,594). 132 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 205
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Voices for Children does
Mission
Voices for Children transforms the lives of abused children by providing them with court appointed special advocates (casas).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Voices for Children (vfc) recruits, trains, and manages over 900 volunteers annually to serve as court appointed special advocates (casas) and is the only nonprofit organization designated by the state of california and the superior courts of san diego and riverside counties to provide these casa services. Vfc was founded in 1980 in san diego county, and since 2015, has also operated the casa program for riverside county. Casa volunteers play an important role in the foster care system, building trusting relationships with children and interfacing with the professionals in order to identify and protect the best interests of children in foster care who have experienced abuse,neglect, or abandonment. Currently all of the nearly 2,500 children in san diego county foster care receive assessment services and 1,734 children in urgent need of advocacy were served by a casa or case liaison. In addition, 521 children in riverside county are being served by casas. Casas work closely with vfc staff to prepare reports for each juvenile court hearing, and develop appropriate advocacy plans for the children. This information helps superior court judges make the most informed decisions to help…
$6,945,681 spentof which $88,129 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,945,681.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.1M to $8.3M (+100%).
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 13% · 2018 18% · 2019 23% · 2020 19% · 2021 33% · 2022 25% · 2023 32% · 2024 35% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of VOICES FOR CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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
Jessica Munoz
President/CEO
Board chair
Annette Bradbury
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 48 funders to 90 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $3.3M.
26 of 205 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association). These are real filings, and they are not money VOICES FOR CHILDREN raised.
From the IRS filings of VOICES FOR CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 205 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
VOICES FOR CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
63% 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 VOICES FOR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 31% · 2021 24% · 2022 34% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
45% of VOICES FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
88% of VOICES FOR 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. $6.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
VOICES FOR CHILDREN is better cushioned than half of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VOICES FOR 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 VOICES FOR 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 VOICES FOR CHILDREN?
- VOICES FOR CHILDREN (California) receives grants from 205 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,021,466 to it, the largest being FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ($6,867,594). 132 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOICES FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 205 organizations giving $24,021,466 in grants to VOICES FOR CHILDREN, 132 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOICES FOR CHILDREN?
- FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,867,594 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOICES FOR 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 205 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