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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.

$345k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$102k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,700
Largest grant, FY2024
$32,250
Organizations funded a year
5 to 46
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$6.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Marin Child Care Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving9$102k11%
FY202312$224k8%
FY20225$39k0%
FY202146$476kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$371kEducation$202kHuman Services$196kHealth$26kYouth Development$20kAnimals$10kReligion$9kRecreation & Sports$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco$98,63530%
City of San Rafael$78,4683n/a
North Marin Community Services$68,56141%
Victorias Daycare Inc$56,8814n/a
Quality Care for Kids Inc$54,51845%
Saint Raphael Church$48,0364n/a
Miss Sandies School$38,6254n/a
Marin Horizon School Inc$27,75410%
Bright Stars$26,0423n/a
New Life Christian Center$23,2062n/a
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All grantees of Marin Child Care Council by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco$98,63530%
City of San Rafael$78,4683n/a
North Marin Community Services$68,56141%
Victorias Daycare Inc$56,8814n/a
Quality Care for Kids Inc$54,51845%
Saint Raphael Church$48,0364n/a
Miss Sandies School$38,6254n/a
Marin Horizon School Inc$27,75410%
Bright Stars$26,0423n/a
New Life Christian Center$23,2062n/a
Tamalpais - Strawberry Preschools Inc$19,79912%
Hummingbirds Nest Collaborati$16,9132n/a
Hillside Church of Marin$15,5161n/a
Leaps and Bounds LLC$14,9582n/a
Community Action Marin$14,92510%
The Belvedere-Tiburon Childcare Center$13,42412%
All Saints Childrens Center$12,6341n/a
Bernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center$11,56310%
North Bay Childrens Center Inc$10,09410%
Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California$9,4051n/a
San Anselmo Montessori School$8,74611%
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church$8,5641n/a
Little Mountain Preschool$8,15312%
Lifehouse Inc$7,49410%
Novato Parents Nursery School Inc$7,49419%
Childrens Cottage$7,42915%
Santa Margarita Childrens Ce$7,3501n/a
Montessori School - San Rafae$7,0631n/a
Oakview Preschool Inc$6,5661n/a
Educare Childrens Center$6,4341n/a
Robins Nest Pre-Schools Inc$6,3001n/a
University of Play Inc$6,0411n/a
San Anselmo Nursery School Inc$5,78113%
Marin Waldorf School Association Inc$5,78110%
First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo$5,7811n/a
Unity in Marin$5,7811n/a
Marin Mountain School$5,78111%
Corte Madera Montessori$5,7811n/a
St Francis Preschool$5,7811n/a
The Little School-Tiburon$5,78111%
Montessori School - Novato$5,7811n/a
Gan Israel Preschool$5,78111%
Ross Academy Montessori Schoo$5,7811n/a
Papermill Creek Childrens Corner$5,78112%
Aristoddle Inc$5,7811n/a
San Francisco International School$5,78111%
Montessori de Terra Linda$5,78110%
Ovejas School$5,7811n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marin Child Care Council supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of San Francisco: $98,635 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Marin Community Services: $68,561 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetQuality Care for Kids Inc: $54,518 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMarin Horizon School Inc: $27,754 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTamalpais - Strawberry Preschools Inc: $19,799 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity Action Marin: $14,925 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Belvedere-Tiburon Childcare Center: $13,424 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center: $11,563 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Bay Childrens Center Inc: $10,094 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Anselmo Montessori School: $8,746 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLittle Mountain Preschool: $8,153 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLifehouse Inc: $7,494 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNovato Parents Nursery School Inc: $7,494 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetChildrens Cottage: $7,429 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSan Anselmo Nursery School Inc: $5,781 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMarin Waldorf School Association Inc: $5,781 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarin Mountain School: $5,781 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Little School-Tiburon: $5,781 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGan Israel Preschool: $5,781 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPapermill Creek Childrens Corner: $5,781 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSan Francisco International School: $5,781 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMontessori de Terra Linda: $5,781 over 1y, 0.2% 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 22.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA26.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to Marin Child Care Council?

Find your warmest path to Marin Child Care Council through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Marin Child Care Council

How much does Marin Child Care Council give?
Marin Child Care Council reported 9 itemized grants totaling $101,634, out of $344,674 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 46 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Marin Child Care Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (44%), Education (24%), Human Services (23%).
Who are Marin Child Care Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco ($99k), City of San Rafael ($78k), North Marin Community Services ($69k).
Does Marin Child Care Council fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marin Child Care Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation, The Morris Stulsaft Foundation.
Where is Marin Child Care Council based?
Marin Child Care Council 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 48 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 $119k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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