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VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25
VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,626 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($140,650). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $344k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Variety - the Childrens Charity of Southern California Tent 25 does
Mission
Variety is dedicated to inspiring hope, enriching lives and building a better future for the children of Southern California. Variety prides itself on being able to modify their agenda in order to meet the evolving conditions encompassing the region - addressing each case in a timely, impartial manner. Variety focuses its funding on program services for children in three key areas: Education, Health Care and Mobility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education Grants provide underprivileged children and at-risk youth the programs necessary to pursue their education and dreams and overcome the barriers of poverty, poor performing schools and high levels of unemployment. Education grants fund early literacy programs, college scholarships, homework assistance, college prep, career readiness, art, music, science and technology workshops, sports and gang prevention counseling. Variety the Children's Charity of Southern California is also a major funder of the Variety Boys & Girls Club of Boyle Heights. The Variety Boys and Girls Club is thriving and is serving more kids than ever with leadership development programs, tutoring and mentoring, recreation, sports and aquatics programs, arts and crafts, a computer learning center and library, social recreation and college scholarships The Club is a safe haven where children can learn, grow and hope.
$396,744 spentof which $293,408 as grants52% of program spendingVarietys Health Care Grants provide safety, help and hope to children who are victims of abuse, neglect and homelessness. Variety sends hundreds of kids who are battling life-threatening illnesses to camp to give them a break from the pain and chaos of treatments. Health Care grants provide medical care, therapy, and early intervention programs for kids with learning disabilities.
$213,990 spentof which $158,254 as grants28% of program spendingVariety's Mobility Program helps children with disabilities gain mobility, strength, confidence, independence and the chance to join in the life of their community by providing funding for walkers, wheelchairs, specially-designed adaptive bikes and therapeutic strollers to families with the most need. Variety believes that no child should miss out on simple pleasures of childhood like riding a bike simply because the adaptive equipment needed is not covered by insurance and too expensive for the family.
$153,771 spentof which $113,720 as grants20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $764,505.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $2.4M (+16%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Steve Bunnell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $0 → $57k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $233k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Variety-The Childrens Charity of the United States). These are real filings, and they are not money VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 raised.
From the IRS filings of VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 81% · 2020 99% · 2021 62% · 2022 49% · 2023 41% — 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
20% of VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
88% of VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25'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. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $303k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25?
- VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,626 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($140,650). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $343,626 in grants to VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $140,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 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 13 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