Thriving Families CA Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030521444
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9165676797
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,530
- Expenses
- $12,135
- Assets
- $381,333
- Liabilities
- $246,800
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Marlatt (President)
- Beth Chiaro (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Karen Marlatt (President)
- Michelle Graham (Secretary)
- Beth Chiaro (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CAPPA Children's Foundation is an organization dedicated to supporting the families and children of California through education, advocacy, and research of child care and child development services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Due to support of efforts of the CAPPA Children's Foundation, early care and education contractors, providers and parents have realized greater child care infrasturture access for working poor families. Further, enhanced information and tehcnology supportive of cultural and linguistic differences have been created to maximize access to the hightest quality early care and education providers. Finally resources have been created to better educate and inform subsidy stakeholders regarding the importance of communicating the economic multiplers that child care impacts in local and statewide economies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -119.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 31.42; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.