California · Nonprofit
LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC
LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $587 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($587). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $587
- Net assets
- $92k
What Lagoon Play Group Inc does
Mission
The lagoon playgroup is a parent participation preschool that emphasizes being a cooperative for the enrichment of developmental and social needs of our young children. Our goal is to support the upward movement of the child as an independent learner. We believe that problem-solving skills are more important than mere content mastery. Our main goal is for the children to become problem solvers. And we believe the best way for children to accomplish this is through play.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our childrens play is supported by a play-based curriculum and a daily routine/schedule. Our activities provide developmentally appropriate learning experiences that are not only age appropriate, but also individually appropriate. We offer varied school experiences such as large and small motor development, creative art, music, dramatic play, science, cooking/nutrition and field trips into the community. The children also learn by observing what happens when they interact with various materials, their fellow classmates, and with the caring staff (the parents) and the teacher/director. Because parents participate/work on a rotating basis at school, children learn to accept and trust other adults. We seek to ensure that the first school experience is positive and rewarding not only for the child, but for the parents as well.
$127,922 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $127,922.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $59k to $90k (+53%).
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.
5% of LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $192 → $256.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LAGOON PLAY GROUP 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 LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $587 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC: 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 LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC?
- LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $587 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($587). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $587 in grants to LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAGOON PLAY GROUP INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $587 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAGOON PLAY GROUP 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