FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B99

Classification

2100

Street

515 S FLOWER ST STE 1800

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

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1800). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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.

• HELPGUIDEORG INTERNATIONAL

  EIN 45-4510670

• MIXED ROOTS FOUNDATION

  EIN 45-2207782

Mission and programs · 2024

• BUILD FAMILY ENGAGEMENT CAPACITY: FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS CONTINUED TO CO-LEAD CALIFORNIA'S COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE (CEI 1.0 AND 2.0), CONTRIBUTING TO A STATEWIDE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOCUSED ON STRENGTHENING FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS. CEI ENGAGED OVER 1,400 PRINCIPALS, PARENTS, FAMILY ENGAGEMENT STAFF, AND STUDENTS STATEWIDE, HELPING DISTRICTS SHIFT FROM BASIC PARENT INVOLVEMENT TO AUTHENTIC FAMILY EMPOWERMENT ALIGNED WITH STATE EXPECTATIONS. FIS ALSO PROVIDED FEE-FOR-SERVICE TRAINING AND CAPACITY-BUILDING TO THREE CORE CLIENTS: LONG-TIME PARTNER LOS ANGELES UNIFIED, THE LOS ANGELES COALITION FOR EXCELLENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS (LACEPS), AND NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

  Expenses $898,722 · Revenue $280,160

• ACTIVATE COALITIONS: FIS FOUNDED THE READ LA! COALITION IN NOVEMBER 2024, UNITING 20+ PARTNERS AROUND THE GOAL OF HAVING 70% OF LAUSD 3RD GRADERS READING AT GRADE-LEVEL BY 2030. IN 2025, THE COALITION DEVELOPED A THREE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN WITH KEY ACTIONS TOWARD REACHING ITS 2030 GOAL. FIS ALSO SERVED AS CO-LEAD IN A STATEWIDE EARLY LITERACY COALITION TO HELP PASS LEGISLATION IN CALIFORNIA (AB 1454) THAT ALIGNS K-5 LITERACY INSTRUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF READING. FIS LITERACY AMBASSADORS TRAVELED TO SACRAMENTO FOR "ADVOCACY DAY," HELPING ACHIEVE AB1454'S UNANIMOUS PASSAGE IN THE ASSEMBLY. FIS ALSO ADVISED LAUSD ON BEST PRACTICES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE STATE'S UNIVERSAL LITERACY SCREENER LAW AND HELPED AUTHOR THE "READERS TO LEADERS" RESOLUTION.

  Expenses $245,376

• ELEVATE FAMILY VOICE: OVER THE PAST YEAR, FIS RECRUITED, TRAINED, AND SUPPORTED 49 LITERACY AMBASSADORS, PARENTS, AND CAREGIVERS, WHO HOSTED BACK-TO-SCHOOL EVENTS THAT PROMOTED LITERACY, DISTRIBUTED CHILDREN'S BOOKS TO FAMILIES, SHARED LITERACY RESOURCES AND TOOLS AT COMMUNITY EVENTS. THEY ALSO ADVOCATED FOR HIGH-QUALITY EARLY LITERACY INSTRUCTION BY OFFERING PUBLIC TESTIMONY IN SUPPORT OF A LITERACY RESOLUTION BY THE LAUSD BOARD OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF READING LEGISLATION AT THE STATE LEVEL (AB 1454). FIS ALSO LAUNCHED THE READ LA! APP (BETA), GIVING FAMILIES EVIDENCE-BASED TIPS AND LITERACY RESOURCES, AVAILABLE IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES.

  Expenses $214,529

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.

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

  $946,235

  Expenses

  $1,963,043

  Contributions

  $574,392

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,381,980

  Expenses

  $1,892,605

  Contributions

  $2,997,988

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,337,639

  Expenses

  $1,217,701

  Contributions

  $1,000,162

  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

  $1,509,220

  Expenses

  $2,128,310

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,272,887

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,831,548

  Expenses

  $1,782,139

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,332,073

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,211,236

  Expenses

  $2,989,962

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,199,677

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,491,765

  Expenses

  $3,033,502

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,880,341

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,875,077

  Expenses

  $2,525,591

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,285,122

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,264,061

  Expenses

  $2,256,340

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,778,633

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,078,479

  Expenses

  $2,036,941

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,754,929

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,663,453

  Expenses

  $3,001,125

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,734,982

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $400,000

  2024 · EDUCATION

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $150,500

  2023 · EDUCATION

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW

  $100,000

  2022 · 2022 COLLECTIVE ACTION ADVOCACY GRANT

• THE CHILDRENS PARTNERSHIP

  $35,000

  2025 · THE GRANT SUPPORTED THE ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATION AS A STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE WHOLE CHILD EQUITY PARTNERSHIP (WCEP), A STATEWIDE CROSS-SECTOR COALITION ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY AND WHOLE-CHILD POLICIES THAT SUPPORT THE HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT, AND WELL-BEING OF BLACK, NATIVE AMERICAN, ASIAN AMERICAN, PACIFIC ISLANDER, AND LATINE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN CALIFORNIA. FUNDING ALSO SUPPORTED THE ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATION IN THE FOLLOWING WCEP WORKGROUPS: HEALTH AND FAMILY PARTNERSHIP WORKGROUPS, TO HELP ADVANCE COLLABORATIVE POLICY, ADVOCACY, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES INFORMED BY THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN.

• THE CHILDRENS PARTNERSHIP

  $35,000

  2024 · SG2024008, WCEP STEERING COMMITTEE 2023-2024, INSTALLMENT 1 OF 1

• EDVOICE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ANDEDUCATION

  $20,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT AN EDUCATIONAL LITERACY CAMPAIGN THAT HELPS PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS UNDERSTAND EFFECTIVE READING INSTRUCTION, INTERPRET STUDENT DATA, AND PROMOTE GRADE-LEVEL READING FOR YOUNG LEARNERS.

• EDVOICE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ANDEDUCATION

  $20,000

  2023 · THE PURPOSE OF THIS GRANT IS TO SUPPORT THE LAUNCH OF FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS' LITERACY CAMPAIGN.

• THE CHILDRENS PARTNERSHIP

  $10,000

  2023 · WCEP SUBGRANT

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2022 · EDUCATION

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

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.

• DOMINGUEZ GROUP LLC

  $200,925 raised

  2019 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $33,801 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.

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