California · Nonprofit
CHILD LANE
CHILD LANE (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,855,212 to it, the largest being WEINGART FOUNDATION ($375,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Child Lane does
Mission
Child Lane provides care in an environment where play is valued and children are supported to reach their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide early care and education for children of low-income families who are working or in vocational training. Families at risk for abuse or neglect are also eligible. Qualified teachers certified by the california department of education, along with additional support staff, work with children in an enriched, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment in Child Lane's ece centers and in a network of licensed family child care homes. Children are engaged in daily hands-on, active, participatory learning activities that encourage play, exploration, and relationship building. Parents are assisted with referrals to community resources and public benefits and offered individual coaching on child development, parenting, and life skills. Children range in age from birth to thirteen years.
$11,446,496 spent$12,417,793 earned by the program67% of program spendingSponsor of the child and adult care food program (cacfp), which supports healthy meals and snacks served in family child care homes. Licensed family child care providers are recruited, trained, monitored, and reimbursed for nutritious meals and snacks served daily that meet federal food guidelines appropriate for young children. Healthy meals and snacks are provided for children in Child Lane's ece centers.
$5,594,592 spent$5,745,902 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,041,088.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.9M to $8.9M (+126%).
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 96% · 2018 94% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 0% · 2022 3% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of CHILD LANE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Dora Jacildo
Executive director
Board chair
Anna Topolewski
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $377k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 CHILD LANE’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
CHILD LANE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 96% · 2022 47% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of CHILD LANE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
100% of CHILD LANE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $326k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHILD LANE is better cushioned than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILD LANE
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Benedict Child Development Center LLC · disregarded
- Benedict Infant Center LLC · disregarded
- Benedict Playground LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILD LANE: 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 CHILD LANE?
- CHILD LANE (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,855,212 to it, the largest being WEINGART FOUNDATION ($375,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD LANE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,855,212 in grants to CHILD LANE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD LANE?
- WEINGART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD LANE 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.
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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 14 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