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CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER

CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,043 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($85,832). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$128k
Net assets
$242k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Cliff Drive Care Center does

Mission

Our mission is to:provide physical, emotional and spiritual support to children and their families through licensed, professionally staffed early childhood education programs including pre-school, kindergarten readiness, after-school and summer camp programs.provide physical, emotional and spiritual support to older adults through nutritious luncheons, activities, social events and personal attention.provide professional counseling to hurting individuals and families through therapeutic interventions and education by state-licensed marriage and family therapists on a sliding fee scale.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Pre-school, after-school and summer program day care for children ages 2-12.

    $1,344,009 spentof which $28,735 as grants$1,361,601 earned by the program
    97% of program spending
  2. Christian counseling center - center for counseling of parental, emotional and spiritual needs.

  3. Senior lunch - lunch program for about 120 seniors served.

    $42,276 spent$10,949 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,386,285.

02The 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 ($744k) Expenses 100 ($710k) Net assets 100 ($165k)2018 Revenue 104 ($771k) Expenses 105 ($745k) Net assets 116 ($191k)2019 Revenue 111 ($827k) Expenses 123 ($875k) Net assets 87 ($143k)2020 Revenue 101 ($749k) Expenses 99 ($706k) Net assets 113 ($186k)2021 Revenue 130 ($966k) Expenses 145 ($1.0M) Net assets 74 ($122k)2022 Revenue 177 ($1.3M) Expenses 161 ($1.1M) Net assets 179 ($296k)2023 Revenue 191 ($1.4M) Expenses 198 ($1.4M) Net assets 188 ($311k)2024 Revenue 202 ($1.5M) Expenses 206 ($1.5M) Net assets 211 ($348k)2025 Revenue 194 ($1.4M) Expenses 219 ($1.6M) Net assets 146 ($242k)
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Revenue (194)Expenses (219)Net assets (146)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 2020 to 2021, from $213k to $378k (+77%).

$217k
$227k
$199k
$213k
$378k
$473k
$505k
$547k
$407k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

5% of CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’17
$26k
’18
−$48k
’19
$43k
’20
−$64k
’21
$173k
’22
$16k
’23
$37k
’24
−$106k
’25
1.1
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.

Board chair

Pamela Shaw

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+1+3+2+3+5+0+1+0
No longer listed·14143010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $26k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER’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

CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

72% 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 CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER.

67%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 78% · 2022 57% · 2023 99% — 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

72% of CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER'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 $36k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.

CA
VA

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

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’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k 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

CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Free Methodist Church of Santa Barbara · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER?
CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,043 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($85,832). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $128,043 in grants to CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER?
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,832 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTER 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 5 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