California · Nonprofit
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,919,829 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($2,315,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What California Child Care Resource and Referral Network does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
My Child Care Plan: The Network contracts with the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) to operate MyChildCarePlan.org, a search and support website designed to provide California's families with the information they need to make the best possible child care choices for their children. The site offers a highly customizable child care search tool and live support from local experts to help families find child care that meets their family's unique needs. With MyChildCarePlan.org, families can access the information they need to find childcare they can trust, and providers can easily promote their services to families who need them.
$2,265,180 spent34% of program spendingProvider Services: The Provider Services department supported all 69 R&R programs in strengthening their capacity and work with all home-based child care providers. The program foci are to establish and increase access to quality child care (slots), strengthen the viability and efficacy of programs, and implement trauma informed practices. This is accomplished through ongoing technical assistance, communities of practice, conferences, outreach and recruitment tools, online and in person trainings, shared resources websites, and a range of comprehensive multilingual curricula that includes, but is not limited to: playgroup and training for Family, Friend, and Neighbor (informal) Caregivers; health and safety training; family child care business; dual language learners; and trauma informed care for all home-based child care providers and navigators.
$1,956,464 spent29% of program spendingMember Services accomplishments include:In fiscal year 2024-25 the Network supported the statewide Child Care Resource & Referral infrastructure to strengthen their services by coordinating opportunities for members to share and learn about best practices, engage in productive relationships with the California Department of Social Services Child Care and Development and Child Care Licensing Divisions, and other statewide partners that impact families, the child care workforce and community wellbeing. The Network gathered, compiled and analyzed data from local Child Care Resource & Referral agencies to inform partners and policymakers about the statewide child care landscape. Our statewide system helped to strengthen and sustain the child care infrastructure in California through consumer education, information on child care options and how to find and afford child care, and technical assistance and support for the child care workforce.
$1,250,405 spent$478,820 earned by the program19% of program spendingTrustline/Consumer Education: TrustLine is a background check for in-home and license exempt child care providers. From July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025, the staff responded to 8,616 calls to the 800 TrustLine number. We sent status information to local agencies for 19,940 individuals that were cleared on TrustLine and 1,732 individuals that were closed or denied registration.As part of our work for the Consumer Education program, we provided information and referrals to parents and others seeking child care information using a toll free number. There were 8,730 calls to the automated portion of the Consumer Education 800 number that connects callers with their local child care resource and referral program. Staff spoke to 1,402 callers and responded to 490 chats on our website.
$1,171,911 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,643,960.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $3.1M to $6.7M (+114%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 48% · 2018 34% · 2019 58% · 2020 86% · 2021 52% · 2022 83% · 2024 91% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of California Child Care Resource and Referral Network’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $295k → $1.0M.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of California Child Care Resource and Referral Network’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 45% · 2019 29% · 2020 38% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of California Child Care Resource and Referral Network's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of California Child Care Resource and Referral Network's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $287k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Child Care Resource and Referral Network: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds California Child Care Resource and Referral Network?
- California Child Care Resource and Referral Network (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,919,829 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($2,315,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Child Care Resource and Referral Network have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $8,919,829 in grants to California Child Care Resource and Referral Network, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Child Care Resource and Referral Network?
- THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Child Care Resource and Referral Network find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing