The Children's Partnership
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464106389
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2133411222
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,492,357
- Expenses
- $4,976,568
- Assets
- $12,085,295
- Liabilities
- $2,100,244
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAYRA ALVAREZ (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MAYRA ALVAREZ (PRESIDENT): $282,713 total reported compensation
- ANGELA VAZQUEZ (POLICY DIRECTOR): $164,231 total reported compensation
- LIZA MARIA DAVIS POLOMSKI (DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT): $160,040 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The children's partnership (tcp) is a California advocacy organization advancing child health equity through research, policy and community engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 the children's partnership used research, policy and community engagement to advocate for child health equity in California. We held seven webinars with more than 3,500 attendees to educate policymakers, community members and key partners on topics ranging from birth equity to reparations. Our team members further reached the community through 55 speaking engagements that reached 5,700+ people, and through 50 media stories we helped generate. We shared power by redistributing more than $1.3 million to families and community partners to uplift their leadership and expertise, as well as awarding $4 million to eight California high schools as part of our peer-to-peer youth mental health pilot demonstration in partnership with the California department of health care services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.43; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $283K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $116K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 27 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 21 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.