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CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT

CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,987,749 to it, the largest being JAMES S BOWER FOUNDATION ($2,400,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$8.0M
Net assets
$2.1M
24/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What Carpinteria Children's Project does

Mission

Ccp connects families to early education, quality care, diverse resources, and support services necessary for their children to thrive, flourish, and succeed.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Ece: the early childhood education program of the Carpinteria Children's Project serves approximately 75 toddlers, and preschoolers with high-quality, early childhood education that includes dual language and outdoor instruction. Their families are supported with referrals to mental health services, food, clothing, and parenting classes in partnership with our family resource center.

    $1,120,176 spent$804,219 earned by the program
    74% of program spending
  2. Frc: the family resource center provides parenting classes, family coaching, direct services, and referrals to outside providers. Over 1,000 families participated in classes including latino literacy project and received direct services such as food from our food distribution and school supplies. Approximately 80 families were served with ongoing family support from family liasions, including virtual classes annd referrals for identified basic and other needs.

    $384,466 spent$143,120 earned by the program
    26% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,504,642.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($558k)2019 Revenue 106 ($1.6M) Expenses 109 ($1.7M) Net assets 107 ($597k)2020 Revenue 127 ($2.0M) Expenses 111 ($1.7M) Net assets 157 ($874k)2021 Revenue 130 ($2.0M) Expenses 101 ($1.6M) Net assets 251 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 103 ($1.6M) Expenses 102 ($1.6M) Net assets 269 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 117 ($1.8M) Expenses 133 ($2.0M) Net assets 250 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 128 ($2.0M) Expenses 138 ($2.1M) Net assets 243 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 190 ($2.9M) Expenses 145 ($2.2M) Net assets 370 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (145)Net assets (370)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $2.2M (+48%).

$633k
$718k
$1.2M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

64% of CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’18
−$32k
’19
$256k
’20
$455k
’21
$20k
’22
−$238k
’23
−$157k
’24
$707k
’25
11
months of
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.

Chief executive

Teresa Alvarez

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed109111312121010
Joined·+1+2+2+3+0+0+3
No longer listed·2004023
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $677k → $882k.

5 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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

CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

30%
largest funder
67%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 36% · 2019 46% · 2020 41% · 2021 19% · 2022 26% · 2023 40% — 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

78% of CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT's grant income comes from California funders.

ME
NY
MA
CA
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $791k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 27%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT?
CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,987,749 to it, the largest being JAMES S BOWER FOUNDATION ($2,400,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $7,987,749 in grants to CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT?
JAMES S BOWER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing