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CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION

CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,712 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($31,105). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$91k
Revenue FY2025
7
Funders on record
$87k
Grants received
$22k
Net assets
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%

Against its field

CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,089 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($28k) Expenses 100 ($25k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2018 Revenue 151 ($43k) Expenses 153 ($39k) Net assets 179 ($9k)2019 Revenue 206 ($58k) Expenses 217 ($55k) Net assets 174 ($9k)2020 Revenue 298 ($84k) Expenses 316 ($80k) Net assets 251 ($13k)2021 Revenue 339 ($95k) Expenses 389 ($99k) Net assets 186 ($9k)2022 Revenue 625 ($176k) Expenses 666 ($169k) Net assets 326 ($16k)2023 Revenue 450 ($127k) Expenses 360 ($91k) Net assets 1029 ($52k)2024 Revenue 199 ($56k) Expenses 390 ($99k) Net assets 178 ($9k)2025 Revenue 323 ($91k) Expenses 306 ($78k) Net assets 445 ($22k)
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Revenue (323)Expenses (306)Net assets (445)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,424 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
17
$4k
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$3k
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$4k
20
$3k
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$7k
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$36k
23
$43k
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$13k
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $10k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)68% 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 CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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

CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

68% 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 CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

36%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 39% · 2021 67% · 2022 90% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

68% of CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

IL
NY
TN

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,712 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($31,105). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $86,712 in grants to CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund is the largest funder on record, with $31,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing