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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,519 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($148,827). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$534k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$350k
Net assets
$494k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What First Congregational Nursery School does

Mission

To provide a preschool program for approximately 90 children while also providing support and education for the parents

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The preschool program for approximately 80 children operates from september to june. The parents are supported and educated through participation in the children's classes and by taking part in teacher conferences, discussions and workshops.

    $443,265 spent$465,050 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $443,265.

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 ($343k) Expenses 100 ($338k) Net assets 100 ($178k)2018 Revenue 117 ($402k) Expenses 105 ($355k) Net assets 126 ($224k)2019 Revenue 128 ($440k) Expenses 113 ($381k) Net assets 159 ($283k)2020 Revenue 119 ($409k) Expenses 116 ($393k) Net assets 168 ($299k)2021 Revenue 139 ($476k) Expenses 107 ($361k) Net assets 232 ($414k)2022 Revenue 202 ($693k) Expenses 189 ($637k) Net assets 264 ($469k)2023 Revenue 156 ($534k) Expenses 152 ($512k) Net assets 276 ($492k)2024 Revenue 149 ($513k) Expenses 158 ($534k) Net assets 264 ($470k)2025 Revenue 155 ($534k) Expenses 154 ($520k) Net assets 277 ($494k)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (154)Net assets (277)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 2020 to 2021, from $444k to $591k (+33%).

$282k
$351k
$393k
$444k
$591k
$589k
$616k
$582k
$725k
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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: 2021 12% · 2022 9% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

13% of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 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.

$6k
’17
$46k
’18
$58k
’19
$16k
’20
$115k
’21
$56k
’22
$22k
’23
−$21k
’24
$14k
’25
17
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

Marisa Cajbon

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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No longer listed·10000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $39k.

6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL’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

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL.

43%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 35% · 2021 62% · 2022 94% · 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.

Where its funders are

89% of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $310k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve16.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.

State$45k
Top programs
  • Other Program Expenses$45k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL: 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 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL?
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,519 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($148,827). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $349,519 in grants to FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $148,827 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL 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