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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $101,634 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $344,674 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $243,040 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Marin YMCA | $32,250 |
| City of San Rafael | $18,025 |
| Quality Care 4 Kids Inc | $9,025 |
| Bright Stars | $8,200 |
| North Marin Community Service | $7,700 |
| Victorias Daycare Inc | $7,400 |
| Saint Raphael Preschool | $7,125 |
| Educare Childrens Center | $6,434 |
| Miss Sandies School | $5,475 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO3× · 2021–2024 · $99k · revenue +46%
- NMNorth Marin Community Services4× · 2021–2024 · $69k · revenue +40%
- QCQUALITY CARE FOR KIDS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- MHMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +26%
- TSTAMALPAIS - STRAWBERRY PRESCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +121%
- HCHILLSIDE CHURCH OF MARINone grant, 2021 · $16k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
San mateo parents nursery school is a diverse community dedicated to fostering the learning and growth of children and adults. its goal is to create a loving, suppportive, empowering environment for children and their families.
Cooperative pre-school serving 50+ families. family members participate in school operations and attend learning sessions
Our mission is to provide a safe, nurturing and stimulating Montessori environment where children develop their natural joy of learning and become engaged citizens of the world.
Walnut Country Preschool is a preschool Licensed by the State of California, Department of Social Services and provides a wonderfully loving and nuturing first school experience for children 2 years and 9 months to Kindergarten entrance.
Educational programs include Toddler, AM Primary, Full Day, Kindergarten, Summer School, Afterschool, and Extended Day Care. Approximately 115 families.
Kiddie Kampus is a cooperative, play-based preschool located in Alameda for children ages 2 years 9 months to 5 years old. We work together to create a nurturing, engaging preschool environment that prepares our children for kindergarten…
None
Monarch Preschool offers a unique play-based learning experience for your child. Play-based, child-led education supports social and emotional development, strengthens language and numeracy skills, and inspires a life-long love of learning.
Cypress school of san francisco is a play based full day program, serving children aged 2-5.9 years old. we are a parent participation school with a low teacher to child ratio and licensed master teachers on staff.
preschool and after-care for children ages 2-5.
As a community, The Forager School is guided by a child-centered philosophy that puts play at the heart of everything we do. Located in rural Northern California we are devoted to fostering a deep connection between young children and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montessori De Terra Linda and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco International School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds North Marin Community Services ↗
- Who funds QUALITY CARE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TAMALPAIS - STRAWBERRY PRESCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN ↗
- Who funds THE BELVEDERE-TIBURON CHILDCARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANSELMO MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LITTLE MOUNTAIN PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Novato Parents Nursery School Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS COTTAGE ↗
- Who funds SAN ANSELMO NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marin Mountain School ↗
- Who funds The Little School-Tiburon ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Extrafood · Bothin Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Marin Child Care Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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