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FIRST 5 ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA INC

EIN 77-0548254 ALAMEDA, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,492,806
Expenses 2024
$1,499,370

Program services were 80.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
P02
Classification
3000
Street
1115 ATLANTIC AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ASSOCIATION'S MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF CALIFORNIA'S YOUNGEST CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH AN EFFECTIVE, COORDINATED AND INCLUSIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CALIFORNIA CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACT AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL.

  • PUBLIC POLICY: THE ASSOCIATION PROVIDES INFORMATION TO ORGANIZATIONS ACROSSCALIFORNIA INTERESTED IN ADVANCING ISSUES OF EARLY LEARNING, HEALTH ACCESS, ANDFAMILY SUPPORT.

    Expenses $681,849

  • MEMBER SERVICES: THE ASSOCIATION PROVIDES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO COUNTYCOMMISSIONs IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: ADMINISTRATION, EVALUATION, COMMUNICATIONS ANDFINANCIAL OPERATIONS.

    Expenses $531,374

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Avo Makdessian

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $237,712
    From this org
    $140,391
    From related orgs
    $94,615
    Other
    $2,706
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $140,391 + $94,615 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $1,616 + $1,089 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $142,007 + $95,704 related

  • Karen Pautz

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Fabiola Gonzlez

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Wendy Sims-Moten

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kitty Lopez

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alethea Arguilez

    Advocacy Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Melody Easton

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ericka Summers

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karla Pleitz Howell

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heidi Mendenhall

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Cloyd

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Waite

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julio Rodriguez

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,492,806
    Expenses
    $1,499,370
    Contributions
    $1,270,267
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,492,806
    Expenses
    $1,499,370
    Contributions
    $1,270,267
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,482,507
    Expenses
    $1,672,514
    Contributions
    $1,364,284
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,632,624
    Expenses
    $1,868,916
    Contributions
    $1,423,896
    Grants paid
    $75,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,537,274
    Expenses
    $1,281,809
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,274,889

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,553,075
    Expenses
    $1,416,722
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,277,888

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,591,219
    Expenses
    $1,205,819
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,188,615

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,560,702
    Expenses
    $1,153,250
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,626,965

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $639,920
    Expenses
    $530,803
    Assets (EOY)
    $923,146

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $703,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $878,232

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

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Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.