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California Child Care Resource and Referral Network at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAP of San Luis Obispo$10,000
Merced County Office of Educa$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%4Cs San Mateo County: $10k → 7%Go Kids Inc: $8k → 8%CocoKids Inc: $26k → 9%4C'S OF SONOMA: $10k → 9%SOLANO FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S COUNCIL: $10k → 10%4Cs of Alameda County: $8k → 10%Childrens Council of SF: $20k → 10%The Resource Connection: $12k → 12%Kings County Act Org: $8k → 18%Changing Tides Family Srvcs: $8k → 18%Valley Oak Children Services: $8k → 18%CENTRAL VALLEY CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $35k → 19%4Cs San Mateo County: $8k → 7%COCO KIDS: $10k → 9%4Cs of Sonoma: $10k → 9%SOLANO FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S COUNCIL: $9k → 10%Hively: $8k → 10%CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $17k → 10%Central Valley CSN: $19k → 19%4C'S OF SAN MATEO: $5k → 7%COCO KIDS: $10k → 9%SOLANO FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S COUNCIL: $5k → 10%CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $11k → 10%YMCA of San Diego: $8k → 11%Central Valley CSN: $18k → 19%COCO KIDS: $10k → 9%PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $26k → 10%Childrens Council of SF: $10k → 10%CENTRAL VALLEY CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $11k → 19%CocoKids Inc: $8k → 9%Parent Voices Oakland: $20k → 10%CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%CENTRAL VALLEY CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 19%Parent Voices Oakland: $10k → 10%Childrens Council of SF: $10k → 10%Central Valley CSN: $10k → 19%Childrens Council of SF: $8k → 10%Central Valley CSN: $8k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$476k · 12 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +148% since the first grant, against +68% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$476k
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+148%
+68%

Still filing today

100%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CV
    CENTRAL VALLEY CHILDRENS SERVICES NETWORK
    6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +115%
  • CC
    Children's Council of San Francisco
    6× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +148%
  • CI
    CocoKids Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $64k · revenue +244%

Funded once

  • BI
    BANANAS INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +227%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • THE RESOURCE CONNECTION OF AMADOR AND CALAVERAS COUNTIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +27%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sierra Nevada Childrens Services

Sierra Nevada Children's Services enhances the community by supporting quality childcare and empowering families to aspire to life-long success.

Human Services
2
Child Action Inc

Child Action, Inc. is a private, nonprofit corporation founded in 1976 to promote the education and social welfare of children and families and to advocate on their behalf. See Schedule O for further details.

Human Services
3
Northcoast Childrens Services Inc

The NCS Vision: To nurture and empower the whole child and family, to enhance our quality of life, and create a more peaceful community.

Education
4
Marin Child Care Council

Marin Child Care Council's mission is to improve the availability, accessibility, and affordability of quality early childhood education and care.

Human Services
5
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
6
Drew Child Development Corporation

Preparing the children of watts-willowbrook, compton, and south los angeles to succeed and thereby strengthen our community's future

Human Services
7
Infant Child Enrichment Services Inc

To enrich the lives of children and families in Tuolumne and Mariposa counties by providing direct services to families, educating the community about child care and child development as well as advocating for the increased quality and…

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8
Small People Child Development Center

The Small People Child Development Center is organized to provide early childhood education, care, and developmental services to infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. The organization supports working families by offering a safe,…

Human Services
9
Yolo County Childrens Alliance

Work together to improve the lives of children, youth, and families in our communities.the childrens alliance is an inter-agency collaborative, which coordinates needed family support services,convenes child and family advocates to solve…

Crime & Legal
10
Brightspark Early Learning Services

To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…

Human Services
11
Custom Fit Kids

to help working parents have affordable child care

Education
12
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

Advocate for early childhood social & economic development and professionals who work with children and their families to advance this mission.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crystal Stairs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ymca of San Diego County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
24/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL VALLEY CHILDRENS SERVICES NETWORK: $109,776 · Human ServicesCENTRAL VALLEY CHILDRENS SERVICES NETWORKChildren's Council of San Francisco: $85,556 · Human ServicesChildren's Council of San FranciscoCocoKids Inc: $64,000 · Human ServicesCocoKids IncPARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $30,000 · Human ServicesPARENT VOICES OAKLANDBANANAS INCORPORATED: $26,000 · Human ServicesBANANAS INCORPORATEDSOLANO FAMILY & CHILDRENS COUNCIL INC: $24,300 · Human ServicesSOLANO FAMILY & CHILDRENS COUNCIL INCChild Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County Inc: $23,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Child Care Council of Sonoma County: $20,000 · Human Services+8 more: $65,000 · Human Services+8 moreFAMILY RESOURCE & REFERRAL CENTER OF SAN JOAQUIN: $42,500 · OtherFAMILY RESOURCE & REFERRAL…EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT SYSTEMS INC: $20,000 · OtherEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT SYS…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOPTIONS FOR LEARNING: $15,500 · OtherOPTIONS FOR LEARNINGCommunity Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc: $10,000 · OtherCommunity Action Partnersh…Community Resources for Children: $8,000 · OtherCommunity Resources for Ch…PLACER COUNTY OF OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $8,000 · OtherPLACER COUNTY OF OFFICE OF…COUNTY OF MERCED: $8,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF MERCEDDEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL: $8,000 · OtherDEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNC…COUNTY OF SHASTA: $7,500 · OtherCRYSTAL STAIRS INC: $25,673 · Arts & CultureMexican American Opportunity Foundation: $15,500 · Employment
Human Services$447,632Other$147,500Arts & Culture$25,673Employment$15,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Hos…Sunlight GivingThe David and Lucile …East Bay Community Fo…The Morris Stulsaft F…California Physicians…The Heising-Simons Fo…Baby2babyThe California Endowm…Wells Fargo FoundationThe Albertsons Compan…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization California Child Care Resource and Referral Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Child Care Resource and Referral Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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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