California · Nonprofit
THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND
THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,280 to it, the largest being HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN ($115,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $524k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $143k
- Net assets
- $542k
What The Irvine Childrens Fund does
Mission
The irvine children's fund is a non-profit community support organization, whose mission is to raise funds to help parents meet the before and after school child care needs for children on irvine elementary school sites and to provide child care scholarships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The irvine children's fund (icf) is a non-profit whose mission is to raise funds primarily through grants and the irvine junior games annual fundraising track and field event to provide scholarships to low income, working families for before and after school child care for children in transitional kindergarten through 6th grade, to expand and maintain child care facilities located on all elementary schools in the irvine unified school district (irvine, ca) and to support child wellness services.from july 1, 2024 - june 30, 2025, the irvine children's fund provided $142,223 in school age child care scholarships for low income, working families. The child care is available on 29 elementary schools in the irvine unified school district. This funding provided 2,047 child care days. Over the past several years, icf has provided $4,675,882 through the irvine junior games, sponsors, grants and foundations. This includes$3,813,331 for before and after school child care scholarships$230,928 to expand and maintain the child care sites$21,920 to complete ada upgrades needed for handicap accessibility at 7 child care sites$292,028 to the schools and teachers working with the children…
$233,919 spentof which $185,974 as grants$120,834 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $233,919.
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 $336k to $542k (+61%).
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 14% · 2018 14% · 2019 21% · 2023 71% · 2024 61% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Dorothy Sharon Wellikson
Icf executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $32k → $2k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND’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
THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 94% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 67% — 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
99% of THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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
THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND: 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 THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND?
- THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,280 to it, the largest being HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN ($115,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $143,280 in grants to THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND?
- HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE IRVINE CHILDRENS FUND 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 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