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FOR THE CHILDREN

EIN 33-0380021 SANTA ANA, CA

Revenue 2024
$3,128,476
Expenses 2024
$2,010,324

Program services were 79.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N20Z
Classification
1000
Street
3000 W MACARTHUR BLVD STE 412

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO TRANSFORM LIVES AND COMMUNITIES BY PROVIDING AN ARRAY OF PROGRAMS, ALL DIRECTED TOWARD CHANGING THE LIVES OF CHILDREN IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM AIMED TO PREVENT ACADEMIC FAILURE, DRUG ABUSE, TEEN PREGNANCY, SEX TRAFFICKING, HOMELESSNESS, AND INCARCERATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FOR THE CHILDREN AIMS TO TRANSFORM LIVES AND COMMUNITIES BY INTERRUPTING CYCLES OF NEGLECT, ABUSE, AND ABANDONMENT OF CHILDREN IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM.

  • FOR THE CHILDREN WORKS IN CONJUNCTION WITH LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCIES AND OTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN PROVIDING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT TO MENTOR AT-RISK FOSTER CHILDREN THROUGH THE VENUE OF SUMMER CAMPS AND MENTORING CLUBS.

    Expenses $1,607,180 · Grants $36,000 · Revenue $445,388

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.

  • JOHN BEERING

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRAD WAYMAN

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DOUG NORDMAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REBECCA CAPTAIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • SANDY COOK-FONG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JACK HINDS

    DIRECTOR (THRU DEC)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TIA CUMMINGS-HOPKINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHIREEN EDDLEBLUTE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRENTON FESSLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WENDY MCMAHAN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $182,037
    From this org
    $158,889
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,148
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $158,889
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,148
    Filer's total
    $182,037

  • KERRY RHODES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEFF JUHALA

    VP OF TRAINING

    Total calculated
    $134,721
    From this org
    $119,804
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,917
    Hours/week
    40

  • CRISTINA ROBECK

    VP OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $117,762
    From this org
    $112,302
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,460
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $3,128,476
    Expenses
    $2,010,324
    Contributions
    $2,635,521
    Grants paid
    $36,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,734,226
    Expenses
    $1,828,888
    Contributions
    $1,193,882
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,604,176
    Expenses
    $1,739,622
    Contributions
    $1,148,766
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $2,046,768
    Expenses
    $1,944,707
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,551,430

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,821,683
    Expenses
    $1,906,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,407,374

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,601,867
    Expenses
    $1,863,839
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,540,203

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,626,653
    Expenses
    $1,773,917
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,630,730

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,861,416
    Expenses
    $1,810,547
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,802,993

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,469,694
    Expenses
    $1,942,039
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,657,945

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,374,792
    Expenses
    $1,597,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,874,629

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,906,083
    Expenses
    $1,929,711
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,073,677

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,273,548
    Expenses
    $2,058,745
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,081,759

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • CAR DONATION SERVICES INC

    $0 raised

    2020 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $0 to charity

  • CAR DONATION SERVICES INC

    $175 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $50 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.