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SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN

SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being SUSAN ZIRKL Z L MEMORIAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$72k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$416k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Society for Disabled Children does

Mission

It is our continuing mission to identify and reach out to the physically and communicatively disabled, assess the need for programs for those persons, seek solutions to problems affecting them, and foster cooperation with all available facilities and resources, public and private.

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.

Program

The Society for Disabled Children is dedicated to providing summer camp programs for children with special needs. Camp blue jay and blue jay day camp provide at least 50 children in kern county with special needs an opportunity to attend a summer residential and/or day camp in cambria california and in kern county ca. Camp blue jay was established in 1975 and blue jay day camp in 2010. In 2010 camp was expanded to include hearing and visually impaired children, arthritic, elipeptic, autisitc, downs, and children with learning disabilities. These children are provided with the opportunity to experience activities usually unavailable to them during the summer. The program helps children with special needs develop confidence and independence. Camp also provides respite for the childs family. Ages served 7 21. Speech progam since the 1960s the Society for Disabled Children has provided speech evaluations and therapy by licensed speech pathologists. This speech program provides low to no cost professional help to children who are unable to obtain speech therapy from public schools and to adults who suffer from communication disorders following a stroke, head or neck injury. Ages 3 yrs…

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($104k) Expenses 100 ($184k) Net assets 100 ($602k)2018 Revenue 71 ($74k) Expenses 84 ($154k) Net assets 87 ($522k)2019 Revenue 69 ($72k) Expenses 96 ($178k) Net assets 69 ($416k)
201720182019
Revenue (69)Expenses (96)Net assets (69)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $530k to $416k (−21%).

$608k
$530k
$416k
201720182019
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$80k
’17
−$81k
’18
−$106k
’19
7.2
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.

201720182019
Listed131410
Joined·+8+2
No longer listed·76
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $2k.

From the IRS filings of SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN’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

SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

NY

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

’18
’20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN

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

57% of spending goes to programs.

Program 57%Management 33%Fundraising 10%

Governance

10
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN?
SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being SUSAN ZIRKL Z L MEMORIAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,000 in grants to SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN?
SUSAN ZIRKL Z L MEMORIAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), 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