California · Nonprofit
ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL
ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,586 to it, the largest being FULTON FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $513k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $399k
What Zaca Center Preschool does
Mission
To serve preschool children and their families in a full inclusion, high quality educational environment.the preschool promotes an anti-biased curriculum full of opportunities to experience many cultures and the differences amoung people. The preschool provides a nurturing, secure and supportive environment that offers children the space and time to discover the world around them and their place in the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We provide child development and nutrition services for children between the ages of 2-years and 5-years. We are a full inclusion preschool, where children with special needs are included into our daily preschool program in partnership with the santa barbara county education office special education department. We are recognized as an outdoor classroom project (ocp), dedicated to increasing the quantity, quality, and benefit of outdoor experiences for children in early care and education programs through providing educational and consulting services on the value and design of engaging outdoor learning environments to teachers, administrators, and parents. We provide daily nutritional meals which include lunch and two snacks prepared on site using fresh fruits and vegetables and cooked from scratch recipes.
$386,253 spent$484,535 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $386,253.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $121k to $347k (+187%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Shelley Grand
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $6k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL’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
ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 97% — 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
100% of ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $786 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
ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL is better cushioned than half 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 ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL: 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 ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL?
- ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,586 to it, the largest being FULTON FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,586 in grants to ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL?
- FULTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZACA CENTER PRESCHOOL 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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