Childrens Services Foundation
Sacramento, CA · EIN 94-2901623. Reported 48 grants totalling $3,460,624 to 46 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Childrens Services Foundation, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 5% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $79,428. Half of what it reported fell between $55,186 and $95,807; the smallest was $5,491 and the largest $174,101. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tlc Child & Family Services | Sebastopol, CA | $174,101 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center | Lincoln, CA | $160,133 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sacramento Childrens Home | Sacramento, CA | $130,022 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alternative Family Services Foundation | Santa Rosa, CA | $116,833 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alameda Family Services | Alameda, CA | $111,080 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Diego Center for Children | San Diego, CA | $103,315 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services | Los Angeles, CA | $103,165 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CASA Pacifica Centers for Children and Families | Camarillo, CA | $102,519 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Helpline Youth Counseling Inc | Whittier, CA | $101,118 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Koinonia Foster Homes Inc | Loomis, CA | $100,516 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Victor Community Support Services Inc | Chico, CA | $96,501 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vista Hill Foundation | San Diego, CA | $95,807 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stars Behavioral Health Group | Long Beach, CA | $91,427 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mckinley Childrens Center Inc | San Dimas, CA | $81,487 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Bay Agency for Children | Oakland, CA | $81,485 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Edgewood Center for Children and Families | San Francisco, CA | $81,485 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foothill Family Service | Pasadena, CA | $81,485 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Hope Foundation for Children | Barstow, CA | $81,485 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| PROMISES2KIDS Foundation | San Diego, CA | $81,485 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Heart Matters Foster Family Agency | Grand Terrace, CA | $81,485 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lincoln | Oakland, CA | $81,167 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Five Acres-the Boys & Girls Aid Society of Los Angeles County | Altadena, CA | $81,165 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services | Los Angeles, CA | $81,087 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Promesa Behavioral Health | Fresno, CA | $80,474 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Angels Foster Family Agency | San Diego, CA | $79,929 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pa Enterprises Inc | Lemon Grove, CA | $77,178 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Summitview Child & Family Services Inc | El Dorado Hls, CA | $74,952 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stanford Youth Solutions | Sacramento, CA | $73,895 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Dimensions Foster Family Agency Inc | Modesto, CA | $70,757 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kindful Restoration | Riverside, CA | $69,134 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fred Finch Youth Center | Oakland, CA | $68,639 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Acts Foundation | Fresno, CA | $65,162 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Village Family Services Inc | N Hollywood, CA | $63,857 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Solutions for Children Families and Individuals | Gilroy, CA | $59,182 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maryvale | Rosemead, CA | $58,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Socal Street Medicine Inc | San Diego, CA | $55,186 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pathway Family Services Inc | Bakersfield, CA | $50,401 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Unity Care Group | San Jose, CA | $47,899 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westcoast Childrens Clinic | Oakland, CA | $38,868 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aspiranet | S San Fran, CA | $35,414 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hamburger Home | Los Angeles, CA | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florence Crittenton Services of Orange County Inc | Fullerton, CA | $18,233 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wayfinder Family Services | View Park, CA | $18,069 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Resource Navigators | San Leandro, CA | $11,662 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mindcure Inc | Fresno, CA | $6,389 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Annes Family Services | Los Angeles, CA | $5,491 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Tlc Child & Family Services
CITED funding for CalAIM svcs - Stars Behavioral Health Group
IPP grants for CalAIM svcs
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 40 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $79,428 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Childrens Services Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 48 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2201 K Street, Sacramento, CA, 95816.
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