2026-06-01T16:29:59-05:00 2025-06-30 954557617 Harrington Group CPAs LLP 2698 Mataro Street Pasadena CA 91107 990 2024-07-01 951977659 Wayfinder Family Services WAYF 3232954555 5300 Angeles Vista Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90043 Jay Allen CEO 3232954555 2026-06-01 1 1 Carlos A Davis CPA P02037008 6264036801 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Jay Allen 5300 Angeles Vista Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90043 49802350 0 X www.wayfinderfamily.org X 1953 CA Wayfinder's mission is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. 15 14 611 21 0 0 40782068 44357713 0 0 1176060 1983408 1861204 346417 43819332 46687538 2893714 1918533 0 0 31824270 32544845 0 0 2134318 11715475 13796878 46433459 48260256 -2614127 -1572718 62952478 66853479 8421749 10818895 54530729 56034584 X 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. 0 0 15054557 1918533 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 safe, caring homes. Wayfinder recruits, trains and certifies resource (foster) families, some of whom ultimately adopt the children they foster. We emphasize a child achieving permanency, which can be reunification with birth parents, living with relatives, adoption or guardianship. Also, Wayfinder offers therapeutic post-adoption support that includes case management, mental health therapy and mentoring to children and their adoptive families during and after adoption to promote stability and permanency. 5844207 The Cottage is a 10-day temporary shelter care program on our Los Angeles campus for boys and girls ages 0 through 17 who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. These children need temporary refuge until they can be placed with family members or foster families. Our professional staff stabilize children in crisis so they are ready to transition to a placement. Wayfinder is one of only four agencies selected by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services to provide this service-and the only shelter licensed to care for infants and toddlers. Thus, The Cottage receives all children under age 5 in the county who are removed from their homes due to maltreatment and cannot be immediately placed with a friend or family member. 6580641 Mental Health offers therapy to children, youth, adults and families in our programs, including traumatized youth in The Cottage and The Haven. Wayfinder remains one of only a handful of organizations in the state that offers mental health services to people with disabilities. Our counselors help clients build skills to cope with vision loss, traumatic experiences, unstable environments, abuse, neglect and more. Wayfinder's community mental health services assist residents in need in Los Angeles, Butte and Placer counties. Our mental health care in the community is focused on preventative services to build resilient individuals and families. 13268112 Families referred to Family Preservation are at risk of having children removed from their home. Through intensive counseling and other services, parents recognize their triggers and learn how to prevent the behaviors that destabilize their family. As a result of Family Preservation, children avoid out-of-home placement or reentry to foster care and can thrive in their nurturing families. This program launched in July 2024 and reflects Wayfinder's commitment to expanding preventive services that can avert the need for crisis intervention.Our Kinship Support Services Program is a kinship navigation service for grandparents, extended family members or close family friends who step up to raise children so they avoid the trauma of separation from their birth family. The program also assists kinship families that form voluntarily, without the assistance of a child welfare agency. Our program offers counseling, assistance with basic needs, support groups and workshops, respite resources and more. Kinship families are more stable, and children maintain their family connections, which produces better long-term outcomes. Our Family Finding services search exhaustively for relatives or people close to children in foster care so they can establish supportive connections. Family finding specialists contact relatives to see if they are interested in phone calls or visits with children in care. Family may not know how to search for the child or even that the child is in foster care. Our specialists coordinate contacts for children and these relatives to build trust and connections so the youth will have a network of caring adults to rely on when they leave foster care. Promoting Safe and Stable Families provides counseling and support to reduce the recurrence of child maltreatment and re-entry into foster care and to increase families' self-sufficiency and positive parenting. The program serves two groups: families that receive intensive services to prevent them from entering the child welfare system and families that receive longer term support as they reunify with a previously removed child. Child and Family Development provides counseling, parent coaching and parenting skills training to birth, adoptive and kinship families whose children are at risk for out-of-home placement due to behavioral, emotional or mental health issues. The program also serves families who have reunified with a child who was previously removed from the home in order to preserve stability and prevent re-entry into out-of-home care.Parents whose children are in foster care receive Supervised Visitation and Coaching services to strengthen parenting skills, enhance parent-child relationships and sustain family ties. Psychosocial Assessment Program assesses resource families, including adoptive families, by completing resource family evaluations within county timeframes.Child Development Services provides early intervention in person to children from birth to age 6 with visual impairment or multiple disabilities. Young children maximize any vision they have and reduce developmental delays. Parents learn to provide their child with therapeutic stimulation and advocate for their child's education and care. Child development reduces the need for special education and increases independence for children with disabilities. Our Special Education School offers children and youth, ages 5 to 22, who are visually impaired or have moderate-to-severe disabilities a safe, positive environment for learning and growth. In the least restrictive environment in our state-certified, non-public school, teachers develop students' communication, mobility and functional skills to increase their independence. Camp Bloomfield provides children and youth who are blind, visually impaired or multi-disabled with memorable experiences in the outdoors. Our camp program offers activities adapted for children of all ages and abilities that develop self-esteem and build independence. Also, Wayfinder offers sports, recreation and outdoor adventures that are adapted for children and teens with disabilities.In Transition Services, teenagers and young adults ages 16 to 25 from across California who are blind or visually impaired explore careers and successfully transition to independent living, college or the workforce. Participants learn assistive technology, independent living, and orientation and mobility (white cane and safe travel) skills. They participate in college-access activities, develop leadership skills, learn job-seeking skills and increase their independence. The program offers weekend workshops and a four-week, in-person summer program in classrooms and dorms on the Cal State Los Angeles campus. The Davidson Program for Independence on Wayfinder's Los Angeles campus and the Hatlen Center for the Blind in Sacramento in Northern California are comprehensive residential rehabilitation programs for adults ages 18 and older who are blind or visually impaired, many with recent vision loss. Participants learn assistive technology, orientation and mobility, braille, and independent living skills. Each client pursues individualized goals that lead to a confident transition to an independent life and education or employment.Assistive Technology Training provides instruction on the latest assistive technology devices and software for success in today's job market to adults with vision loss, ages 18 and older. Employment Services teaches adults who are blind or visually impaired the skills they need to join or rejoin the workforce. Participants attend training on our L.A. campus, remotely, or in person in their homes. They receive assessments, training and job placement, as well as coaching and instruction in orientation and mobility to find and keep jobs. Clients emerge as competitive candidates in the workforce. Also, Wayfinder helps employers adapt workspaces to increase accessibility. Wayfinder's Older Individuals who are Blind program provides adults ages 55 and older who are visually impaired with training to assist them in living independently. Each client has an individualized service plan that specifies goals and activities. Clients receive one-to-one instruction, small group trainings and virtual visits on our L.A. campus, in clients' homes and at senior centers. For each person, trainings combine the seven service categories that meet their needs: low vision, assistive technology, orientation and mobility, communication, activities of daily living, self-advocacy, or adjustment counseling. As a result, older adults gain independence and self-sufficiency so they can participate more fully in their communities. Our Medical Department provides 24-hour services to residents of our three on-campus residential programs, plus students in our Special Education School. Many have complex, intertwined medical, mental health and behavioral needs, which our medical staff are adept at addressing. Medical department staff are nurses, and we contract with a psychiatrist, nurse practitioner, endocrinologist and behavioral psychologist. Mental Health offers therapy to children, youth, adults and families in our programs, including traumatized youth in The Cottage and The Haven. Wayfinder remains one of only a handful of organizations in the state that offers mental health services to people with disabilities. Our counselors help clients build skills to cope with vision loss, traumatic experiences, unstable environments, abuse, neglect and more. Wayfinder's community mental health services assist residents in need in Los Angeles, Butte and Placer counties. Our mental health care in the community is focused on preventative services to build resilient individuals and families.Be Well focuses on mental wellness and empowerment of youth ages 14-25 who are experiencing mental health disorders or early symptoms of one. The program mitigates mental health and wellness challenges, while supporting healing for vulnerable youth. The goals are to destigmatize mental health challenges and assist youth in strengthening their resiliency.The Haven provides shelter and long-term foster care for unaccompanied children. The program assists children ages 0 to 17 and pregnant or parenting teenagers who enter the country alone and do not have a parent or legal guardian in the U.S. to care for them. The program includes a group home on our L.A. campus housing boys ages 12 to 17, basic foster care in family homes for children ages 0 to 17, and therapeutic foster care in the homes of trained families for children ages 0 to 17 with significant emotional, behavioral, medical or developmental needs. 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Lang, Hansen, Giroux & Kidane offers state and local legislative and regulatory advocacy services. 419880 419880 419880 419880 419880 419880 419880 419880 419880 6802 6802 419880 1.00000 0 0 2989000 1683020 4672020 22290735 13983043 8307692 8626728 7578419 1048309 2447586 951308 1496278 15524299 Other assets 1844918 Deposits 154381 Right-of-use assets 1662668 3661967 Right-of-use liabilities 1711980 1711980 X 49781454 3076573 139340 3215913 46565541 121997 121997 46687538 48277599 139340 139340 48138259 121997 121997 48260256 Part V, Line 4: The donor has stipulated that the restricted principal of the Endowment Fund is to be kept in tact in perpetuity and only the interest and dividends there from may be expended for the needs of the organization and children. Part X, Line 2: Wayfinder Family Services is exempt from taxation under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 23701d. Generally accepted accounting principles provide accounting and disclosure guidance about positions taken by an organization in its tax returns that might be uncertain. Management has considered its tax positions and believes that all of the positions taken by Wayfinder Family Services in its federal and state exempt organization tax returns are more likely than not to be sustained upon examination. Wayfinder Family Services' returns are subject to examination by federal and state taxing authorities, generally for three and four years, respectively, after they are filed. 1 Foster Family payments 199 1918533 Part I, Line 2: All foster parents receive payments based on the child's age or "Level of Care" as determined by DCFS through an approved review process. X X X X X 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jay Allen CEO 381134 0 23295 0 1899 0 36000 0 0 0 442328 0 0 0 Fernando Almodovar Chief Financial Officer 265058 0 14022 0 0 0 29432 0 14584 0 323096 0 0 0 Blythe Maling Senior VP & Chief Develop. 258156 0 7649 0 0 0 24334 0 14582 0 304721 0 0 0 Dawn Vo-Jutabha Chief Operating Officer 252244 0 14326 0 0 0 24229 0 13282 0 304081 0 0 0 Carmen Garcia Chief People Officer 221994 0 13456 0 0 0 20987 0 14157 0 270594 0 0 0 Miki Jordan Consultant 206560 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 206560 0 0 0 Carol Ramirez VP and Chief Program Officer 190986 0 880 0 0 0 7675 0 0 0 199541 0 0 0 Part I, Line 4b The following participated in a 457(b)Plan: Jay Allen - $23,000 Blythe C. Maling - $13,730 Donna Roberts - $6,543 Carmen Garcia - $11,803 Fernando Almodovar - $14,367 Dawn Vo-Jutabha - $13,461 Miki Jordan Former CEO 206560 Consulting 0 X 129677 At cost X 1 2102 FMV X 7 788 At cost X Edu. supplies 18 32724 At cost X Gift cards 2 4032 Purchased value 0 1 0 Part I, Column (b): The quantity of items reported is determned by the number of individual donors. Form 990, Page 1, Box B, Amended Return: This Form 990 is being amended to accurately report 2024 W-2 amounts for Officers and Highest Compensated Employees on Part VII. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b Reported and made available to the Board before filings with the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c The Board of Directors is required to read and sign a comprehensive Conflict of Interest Policy every year. 100% participation is mandatory. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 The Compensation Committee of the Board provides oversight with respect to executive compensation at Wayfinder. Executive compensation is defined as the compensation to the organization's CEO and his/her direct reports (COO, CFAO, CDO). The Committee: Reviews the annual salary and compensation package of the CEO and key employees. - Annually reviews the CEO's performance and the annual salary and compensation package of the CEO's direct reports. - Reviews and approves executive employment agreements (if and when appropriate), severance arrangements (if and when appropriate), and changes in control provisions/agreements (if and when appropriate). - Retains (and terminates) any consulting firms to be used to assist in the evaluation of executive compensation. This is done at the time of hiring, and when appropriate thereafter. Reviews comparable industry salary of the CEO, CFO, COO and CDO. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The Conflict of Interest Policy is available upon request to the public. The Form 990 and financial statements are available on our website, upon request and also on Guidestar.org.