California · Nonprofit
Marin Child Care Council
Marin Child Care Council (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,458,551 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($14,750,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Marin Child Care Council does
Mission
Marin Child Care Council's mission is to improve the availability, accessibility, and affordability of quality early childhood education and care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child Care Subsidy Programs: Parental Choice means parents may select child care services from licensed centers and preschools, licensed family daycare homes and license-exempt or in-house providers.See Schedule O for additional information.
$17,835,002 spent$5,857 earned by the program91% of program spendingOther program expenses for the year ended June 30, 2025 were $837,873.
$837,873 spent4% of program spendingProvider Support Programs: Marin Child Care Council provides support to the child care community by offering trainings, professional development and up-to-date resources.See Schedule O for additional information
$544,510 spent$10,235 earned by the program3% of program spendingParent Support Programs: Parents can receive information and resources about early care and education issues including: licensing information, health and safety, what to look for in a quality program, different philosophies and child development.Marin Child Care Council also operates a Centralized Eligibility List (CEL) to givefamilies access to many subsidized child care programs through a single application.All Agencies operating subsidized early care and education programs in Marin Countyuse this list to enroll families to their program.For the 2024-2025 year, Marin Child Care Council processed 2,896 referrals andanswered 2,089 requests for other child information.
$364,435 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,581,820.
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 $4.9M to $6.4M (+29%).
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 75% · 2018 74% · 2019 72% · 2020 70% · 2021 70% · 2022 77% · 2023 80% · 2024 89% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Marin Child Care Council’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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.
Chief executive
Aideen Gaidmore
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.4M.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Marin Child Care Council’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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
Marin Child Care Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Marin Child Care Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 93% · 2022 96% · 2023 77% — 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
Marin Child Care Council draws 100% 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. $1.7M 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
Marin Child Care Council has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Marin 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
100% 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 Marin 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 Marin Child Care Council?
- Marin Child Care Council (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,458,551 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($14,750,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Marin Child Care Council have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $16,458,551 in grants to Marin Child Care Council, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Marin Child Care Council?
- LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,750,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Marin 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.
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 6 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