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.

Marin Child Care Council

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· Public charity

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$32k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 9 grants below total $101,634, the rows itemized in this filing. The $344,674 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $243,040 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $51k
$10k–50k2 grants · $50k

$7,700

Median grant

States reached

$6.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$525k · 11 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$525k

$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+47%

Still filing today

27%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
3× · 2021–2024 · $99k · revenue +46%
NM
North Marin Community Services
4× · 2021–2024 · $69k · revenue +40%
QC
QUALITY CARE FOR KIDS INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +33%

Funded once

MH
MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +26%
TS
TAMALPAIS - STRAWBERRY PRESCHOOLS INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +121%
HC
HILLSIDE CHURCH OF MARIN
one grant, 2021 · $16k

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.

Terra Marin School

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…

Education

San Mateo Parents Nursery School

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.

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San Marcos Parent-Child Workshop

Cooperative pre-school serving 50+ families. family members participate in school operations and attend learning sessions

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Montessori Del Mar Community School

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.

Education

Walnut Country Preschool

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.

Education

Diablo Valley Montessori School Inc

Educational programs include Toddler, AM Primary, Full Day, Kindergarten, Summer School, Afterschool, and Extended Day Care. Approximately 115 families.

Education

Kiddie Kampus Cooperative Play School Inc

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…

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Santa Clara Parents Nursery

None

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Monarch Preschool Inc

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.

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Cypress School of San Francisco F/K/a Cow Hollow Preschool

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.

Education

Sonoma Preschool Academy

preschool and after-care for children ages 2-5.

Education

The Forager School

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montessori De Terra Linda; 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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

19/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$536,775Human Services$146,779Education$87,972Youth Development$68,561

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marin Child Care Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marin Child Care Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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