Public Charity

Wayfinder Family Services

Wayfinder Family Services is a Public Charity headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $46.7M revenue, $48.3M expenses, $66.9M total assets. 135 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $3.1M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 951977659 Los Angeles, CA Blind & Visually Impaired Centers NTEE: P86 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$46.7M
Total Expenses$48.3M
Total Assets$66.9M
Grant Records135
Funding Total$3.1M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually impaired children to lead fuller and more independent lives. In response to community needs, Wayfinder expanded programs for children, youth and adults with vision loss or profound special needs and serious medical conditions; children and infants who have experienced loss and trauma; foster youth in search of homes and opportunity; and adoptive families. We offer all services at no cost to our clients, most of whom are low-income people of color.

Where $100 goes at Wayfinder Family Services

How Wayfinder Family Services divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 7 years.

$84 Programs the work itself
$12 Management running the organization
$4 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $84 for programs

$31
Our statewide Foster Care and Adoption programs match children and youth who have been displaced from their homes due to abuse or neglect with families that can provide…
37% of program spending
$27
Families referred to Family Preservation are at risk of having children removed from their home
33% of program spending
$14
Mental Health offers therapy to children, youth, adults and families in our programs, including traumatized youth in The Cottage and The Haven
16% of program spending

Plus 1 more program. Cost per person served and the full program breakdown are on the full profile.

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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

Senior VP & Chief Develop. Blythe Maling
Chief People Officer Carmen Garcia
VP and Chief Program Officer Carol Ramirez
Chief Operating Officer Dawn Vo-Jutabha
Immediate Past Chair Elworth Ae Williams
Treasurer Erica Fernandez

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$1,473,150 63 grants
Health & Medicine
$884,771 19 grants
Human & Social Services
$628,909 28 grants
Education
$21,000 3 grants
Environment & Conservation
$500 1 grant

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $46.7M $48.3M $66.9M
2024 $43.8M $46.4M $63.0M
2023 $47.3M $48.1M $60.7M
2022 $45.6M $47.8M $58.4M
2021 $46.2M $46.7M $65.6M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue held roughly steady at around $46.7M, with total assets most recently reported at $66.9M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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