California · Nonprofit
Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center
Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,854,789 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $986k
What Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center does
Mission
To provide a warm, responsive school environment and educational opportunities for preschool and school age children, and their families who come from varied ethnic backgrounds so that learning becomes an exciting, enriching experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center is a family-based daycare program to support low-income families. Its goal is to build a sense of community, and provide quality early care and education to at risk children. The Center works with ages three months to fifth grade. It also offers family support programs.
$2,773,744 spent$101,804 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,773,744.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $8.2M (+326%).
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: 2017 74% · 2018 84% · 2019 83% · 2020 86% · 2021 84% · 2022 92% · 2023 79% · 2024 54% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Julia Howard-Gibbon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $94k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens 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
Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 52% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% — 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
Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $783k 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.
Against its field
Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center: 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 Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center?
- Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,854,789 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,854,789 in grants to Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center?
- LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens 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.
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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 7 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