California · Nonprofit
DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL
DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $699,792 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($525,524). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $700k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Del Norte Child Care Council does
Mission
To provide education and support services that promote and encourage quality care, education, healthy growth and development of all children and families in del norte county
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Alternate payment program - provides subsidized child care to low-income and at-risk children. A participating family chooses the child care setting thus insuring a child care provider that best meets the familys needs and background and allows the parents a full range of flexibility to accommodate daytime or nighttime schedules. Parents using a voucher can choose from licensed centers, family childcare homes and in-home providers.
$2,135,356 spentof which $1,812,219 as grants64% of program spendingCenter-based programs - operates child care and development centers and provides child care to toddlers, preschool and school are children primarily of low-income, working parents.
$291,084 spent9% of program spendingCommunity family service programs - provides community service conracts, including child care and social service referrals. This unit recrutes childcare providers and conducts workshops to provide training for in-home child care providers. The resource and referral unit also provides child care food program sponsorship for family daycare providers and related nutrition education and outreach. It additionally oversees case management and child abuse prevention services.
$891,521 spentof which $476,082 as grants$572,107 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,317,961.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $1.1M to $1.8M (+62%).
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: 2019 53% · 2022 86% · 2023 80% · 2024 73% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Carrie Castillo
Executive director
Board chair
Denise Doyle-Schanker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $85k → $80k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL’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
DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 79% · 2019 68% · 2020 94% · 2021 69% · 2022 67% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $162k 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.
Organizations like DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL: 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 DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL?
- DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $699,792 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($525,524). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $699,792 in grants to DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $525,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEL NORTE CHILD CARE COUNCIL 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 2019–2025), 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