California · Nonprofit
Fairplex Learning and Development Center
Fairplex Learning and Development Center (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,413 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($125,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $719k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Fairplex Learning and Development Center does
Mission
The Fairplex Learning and Development Center (FLDC) provides innovative, enriching, educational programs and experiences that bring learning to life. Serving diverse communities, FLDC offers hands-on, career-focused, early childhood, and art-based programs that support learners from cradle to career, preparing them for lifelong success. By addressing the unmet educational needs of children and youth from across the region, and fostering growth through impactful opportunities, FLDC empowers children, youth and families, and creates lasting community impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Fairplex Learning and Development Center was formed as the result of a merger of two not-for-profit entities Fairplex Child Development Center and The Learning Centers at Fairplex on July 1, 2024. Both entities shared the common mission of supporting educational programs. Through their merger by combining resources, the entities will be able to provide more opportunities for expanded and enhanced programming, including an emphasis on cradle to career education for children, youth, and families throughout Pomona and the surrounding region.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Child Development Center is both publicly and privately funded, having contracts with the California Department of Education, California Department of Social Services, and receiving funds from non-subsidized childcare fees. The Center serves children from eight weeks to six years of age with specially designed infant, toddler, preschool, and kindergarten classrooms, which emphasize developmentally appropriate experiences for children. The center provided 53,013 days of childcare services during the year and served 106,438 meals to children attending the program.
$4,898,251 spent$1,527,728 earned by the program86% of program spendingThe Career and Technical Education Center (CTEC), provides a wide spectrum of Workforce Development, hands-on and transformational programs that prepare our students for long-term career pathways. CTEC provides vocational skills training that is a supplement to the local high school curriculum, to help high school juniors and seniors stay in school, graduate on time, go on to entry-level employment, and obtain industry certifications, internships, formal job training, and additional vocational education.
$760,881 spent$18,220 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe FairKids Field Trip program, held during the L.A. County Fair, offers K-12 students and educators a unique opportunity to explore an interactive, educational experience, we proudly call "A Day Full of Learning Cleverly Disguised as Fun!" Through self-guided tours, students and chaperones can immerse themselves in hands-on learning across a wide range of subjects, including agriculture, science, history, culture, and the arts. This engaging and enriching experience brings classroom lessons to life in a dynamic fairground setting.
$40,449 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,699,581.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.9M to $17M (+90%).
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 24% · 2018 31% · 2019 29% · 2020 48% · 2022 45% · 2023 52% · 2024 51% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of Fairplex Learning and Development Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Roberto Viramontes
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $125k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Fairplex Learning and Development 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
Fairplex Learning and Development Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 Fairplex Learning and Development Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 26% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of Fairplex Learning and Development Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
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
76% of Fairplex Learning and Development Center's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $266k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Fairplex Learning and Development Center's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Fairplex Learning and Development 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Los Angeles County Fair Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fairplex Learning and Development 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 Fairplex Learning and Development Center?
- Fairplex Learning and Development Center (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,413 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($125,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fairplex Learning and Development Center have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $719,413 in grants to Fairplex Learning and Development Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fairplex Learning and Development Center?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fairplex Learning and Development 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 12 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