California · Nonprofit
THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC
THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,678 to it, the largest being LOS ANGELES UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL ($107,298). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $285k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What The Childrens Collective Inc does
Mission
The children's collective inc.'s mission is to improve academic, social and economic life outcomes for low income, minority children, youth and families in south los angeles by providing high quality, comprehensive seamless services in child development, youth development, family support, and health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The california state preschool program provided full and part-day developmental services to 469 children from 3 to 5 years of age. Services were provided to the children and families for 240 days. These services allowed low-income working parents to participate in educational/training programs as well as obtain and maintain employment while children were cared for in a secure, nurturing environment. This program provided respite to very low-income overburdened families.
$7,421,266 spent$1,047 earned by the program58% of program spendingGeneral child care provided full-day developmental services to 60 infants and 59 toddlers from two to thirty-six months for 240 days. This program allowed low-income parents to obtain and maintain employment, as well as obtain job training, while their children were cared for in secure, nurturing childcare environments. The children received age-appropriate early education in cognitive, language, physical, social and emotional development. Children were fed two nutritious meals and a snack daily, and as needed, provided with early therapeutic intervention.
$1,833,285 spent14% of program spendingFamilysource center provides a continuum of core services to increase family self-sufficiency, including financial literacy; income tax preparation; emergency food and clothing; information and referrals to community resources including banking and utility bill payments, as well as homework assistance, recreation, and leadership activities for youth. During the fiscal year, the fsc program served 3,459 clients, increased family income by $674,864 and helped 95 youth obtain an academic achievement outcome
$1,464,592 spent11% of program spendingCal freshblack infant healthfood programlauperapearly head start
$2,060,516 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,779,659.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.3M to $13M (+70%).
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 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 85% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC’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. 1 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
Dr Charles Lee-Johnson
Executive director
Board chair
Anitha Mitchell Md
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $108k → $23k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 91% · 2022 36% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
91% of THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC holds deeper cash reserves 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 THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE 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.
Where the money goes
90% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC?
- THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,678 to it, the largest being LOS ANGELES UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL ($107,298). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $284,678 in grants to THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE INC?
- LOS ANGELES UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL is the largest funder on record, with $107,298 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDRENS COLLECTIVE 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 11 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