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Coastside Childrens Programs

Coastside Childrens Programs (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,356,076 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($902,870). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$2.1M
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Coastside Childrens Programs does

Mission

Coastside Childrens Programs (ccp) mission is to provide a safe and caring environment where children learn through experience, play, and friendships - building a foundation for success in school and life. Ccp is offering preschool programs, afterschool care and summer camps.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Organizations Half Moon Bay Before/After School Center provides full and part time childcare for children aged four and one-half years old to twelve years old. The Organizations Montara Before/After School Center provides full and part time childcare for children aged four and one-half years to twelve years old. The Organizations Half Moon Bay Preschool Center provides full and part time childcare for children aged two and one-half years old to five years old. The Organizations Montara Preschool Center provides full and part time childcare for children aged two and one-half years old to five years old. The Organizations El Granada Before/After School provides full and part time childcare for children aged four and one-half years old to twelve years old.

    $1,823,032 spent$1,030,430 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,823,032.

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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($663k)2018 Revenue 98 ($1.6M) Expenses 101 ($1.5M) Net assets 105 ($694k)2019 Revenue 106 ($1.7M) Expenses 104 ($1.6M) Net assets 122 ($806k)2020 Revenue 102 ($1.6M) Expenses 102 ($1.5M) Net assets 134 ($890k)2021 Revenue 110 ($1.7M) Expenses 95 ($1.4M) Net assets 183 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 99 ($1.6M) Expenses 101 ($1.5M) Net assets 189 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 127 ($2.0M) Expenses 126 ($1.9M) Net assets 333 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 129 ($2.0M) Expenses 141 ($2.1M) Net assets 308 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 149 ($2.4M) Expenses 156 ($2.3M) Net assets 310 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (149)Expenses (156)Net assets (310)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $2.7M (+79%).

$877k
$907k
$1.0M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$2.7M
$2.8M
$2.7M
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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
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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 21% · 2018 23% · 2019 19% · 2020 28% · 2021 52% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% · 2024 34% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

55% of Coastside Childrens Programs’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$73k
’17
$31k
’18
$113k
’19
$83k
’20
$299k
’21
$36k
’22
$113k
’23
−$86k
’24
$15k
’25
7.7
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

Diana Buffington

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed12106458998
Joined·+2+1+1+1+5+1+2+1
No longer listed·45302022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $45k → $126k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 Coastside Childrens Programs’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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

Coastside Childrens Programs leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

78% 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 Coastside Childrens Programs.

67%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 72% · 2021 91% · 2022 44% · 2023 87% — 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

56% of Coastside Childrens Programs's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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

67% of Coastside Childrens Programs'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 $441k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.

CA
CO
NC
FL

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. $915k 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

Coastside Childrens Programs holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve7.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Coastside Childrens Programs

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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 Coastside Childrens Programs?
Coastside Childrens Programs (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,356,076 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($902,870). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Coastside Childrens Programs have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,356,076 in grants to Coastside Childrens Programs, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Coastside Childrens Programs?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $902,870 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Coastside Childrens Programs 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 15 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