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Community Association for Preschool Education Inc

Community Association for Preschool Education Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,826 to it, the largest being California School-Age Consortium Inc ($14,826). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$657k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Community Association for Preschool Education Inc does

Mission

CAPE provides Head Start, Early Head Start, State Preschool Program services, and license exempt early care and education services in Alameda County. CAPE also provides medi-cal certified mental health services in Alameda County.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Head Start and Early Head Start promotes school readiness by enhancing social and cognitive development of low-income children through the provision of comprehensive health, educational, nutritional, social and other services.

    $7,926,452 spent
    76% of program spending
  2. State Preschool and General Child care program part-day to full-day comprehensive development program for low-income families. The programs emphasize parent education and encouraging parent involvement.Children enrolled in CAPE child care programs are served breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks (full-day programs) to meet their daily nutritional needs through the California Child and Adult Care Food Program.

    $2,503,712 spent$933 earned by the program
    24% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,430,164.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.4M) Expenses 100 ($5.4M) Net assets 100 ($147k)2018 Revenue 114 ($6.1M) Expenses 113 ($6.1M) Net assets 127 ($186k)2019 Revenue 116 ($6.2M) Expenses 114 ($6.2M) Net assets 184 ($269k)2020 Revenue 113 ($6.1M) Expenses 114 ($6.2M) Net assets 147 ($216k)2021 Revenue 112 ($6.1M) Expenses 113 ($6.1M) Net assets 108 ($158k)2022 Revenue 118 ($6.4M) Expenses 113 ($6.1M) Net assets 293 ($430k)2023 Revenue 120 ($6.5M) Expenses 120 ($6.5M) Net assets 453 ($664k)2024 Revenue 147 ($7.9M) Expenses 147 ($7.9M) Net assets 452 ($663k)2025 Revenue 194 ($10M) Expenses 194 ($10M) Net assets 448 ($657k)
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Revenue (194)Expenses (194)Net assets (448)

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 $3.0M to $7.2M (+137%).

$856k
$1.0M
$918k
$1.0M
$870k
$1.4M
$1.5M
$3.0M
$7.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
$40k
’18
$83k
’19
−$53k
’20
−$58k
’21
$271k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$992
’24
−$6k
’25
8.0
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.

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Listed786798779
Joined·+1+2+1+3+0+1+1+2
No longer listed·04011210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Community Association for Preschool Education Inc’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Community Association for Preschool Education Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

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In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
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 Community Association for Preschool Education Inc?
Community Association for Preschool Education Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,826 to it, the largest being California School-Age Consortium Inc ($14,826). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Community Association for Preschool Education Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $14,826 in grants to Community Association for Preschool Education Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Community Association for Preschool Education Inc?
California School-Age Consortium Inc is the largest funder on record, with $14,826 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Community Association for Preschool Education Inc 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 1 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