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California Child Care Resource and Referral Network

To advance and advocate for an equitable early childhood support system for all California families by working at the intersection of research, programs, and policy in partnership with member Child Care Resource & Referral agencies (R&Rs) and human service organizations statewide.

$18k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2022
38%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 17
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$8.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 38% of the organizations California Child Care Resource and Referral Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$18k100%
FY202213$152k38%
FY202117$172k59%
FY20202$28k0%
FY20199$78k33%
FY20187$114k14%
FY20177$75kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$491kEducation$34kCrime & Legal$33kArts & Culture$26kEmployment$16kCommunity Improvement$10kYouth Development$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget California Child Care Resource and Referral Network supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Valley Childrens Services Network: $109,776 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Council of San Francisco: $85,556 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCocoKids Inc: $64,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Resource & Referral Center of San Joaquin: $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetParent Voices Oakland: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBananas Incorporated: $26,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCrystal Stairs Inc: $25,673 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSolano Family & Childrens Council Inc: $24,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChild Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEducational Enrichment Systems Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Child Care Council of Sonoma County: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOptions for Learning: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMexican American Opportunity Foundation: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Resource Connection of Amador and Calaveras Counties Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Resources for Children: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetValley Oak Children's Services Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDel Norte Child Care Council: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA of San Diego County: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Child Care Coordinating Council of Alameda County: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChanging Tides Family Services: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGo Kids Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHively: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKings Community Action Organization Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA25.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sunlight Giving · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Baby2baby · The California Endowment · Wells Fargo Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About California Child Care Resource and Referral Network

How much does California Child Care Resource and Referral Network give?
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network reported 2 grants totaling $18,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does California Child Care Resource and Referral Network fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (77%), Education (5%), Crime & Legal (5%).
Who are California Child Care Resource and Referral Network's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Central Valley Childrens Services Network ($110k), Children's Council of San Francisco ($86k), CocoKids Inc ($64k).
Does California Child Care Resource and Referral Network fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as California Child Care Resource and Referral Network?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Sunlight Giving, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Where is California Child Care Resource and Referral Network based?
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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