Marin Child Care Council
San Rafael, CA · EIN 94-2605281. Reported 74 grants totalling $840,087 to 48 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Marin Child Care Council, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P33A) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $7,597. Half of what it reported fell between $5,781 and $12,634; the smallest was $5,475 and the largest $44,581. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $98,635 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| City of San Rafael | San Rafael, CA | $78,468 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Marin Community Services | Novato, CA | $68,561 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Victorias Daycare Inc | San Rafael, CA | $56,881 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Quality Care for Kids Inc | Novato, CA | $54,518 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Saint Raphael Church | San Rafael, CA | $48,036 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Miss Sandies School | Novato, CA | $38,625 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Marin Horizon School Incorporated | Mill Valley, CA | $27,754 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bright Stars | San Rafael, CA | $26,042 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Life Christian Center | Novato, CA | $23,206 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tamalpais - Strawberry Preschools Inc | Mill Valley, CA | $19,799 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hummingbirds Nest Collaborati | Novato, CA | $16,913 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hillside Church of Marin | Corte Madera, CA | $15,516 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Leaps & Bounds | Irvine, CA | $14,958 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Action Marin | Novato, CA | $14,925 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Belvedere Tiburon Child Care Center | Tiburon, CA | $13,424 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| All Saints Childrens Center | Novato, CA | $12,634 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center 07-01-95 | San Rafael, CA | $11,563 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North Bay Childrens Center Inc | Novato, CA | $10,094 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California | San Francisco, CA | $9,405 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| San Anselmo Montessori School | San Anselmo, CA | $8,746 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Good Shepherd Lutheran Church | Novato, CA | $8,564 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Little Mountain Preschool | San Anselmo, CA | $8,153 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lifehouse Inc | San Rafael, CA | $7,494 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Novato Parents Nursery School Inc | Novato, CA | $7,494 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Childrens Cottage | Larkspur, CA | $7,429 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Santa Margarita Childrens Ce | San Rafael, CA | $7,350 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Montessori School - San Rafae | San Rafael, CA | $7,063 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oakview Preschool Inc | San Rafael, CA | $6,566 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Educare Childrens Center | Corte Madera, CA | $6,434 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Robins Nest Pre-Schools Inc | Sausalito, CA | $6,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Play Inc | San Rafael, CA | $6,041 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Aristoddle Inc | Lafayette, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Corte Madera Montessori | Corte Madera, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo | San Anselmo, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gan Israel Preschool | San Rafael, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Marin Mountain School | Corte Madera, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Marin Waldorf School Assn Inc | San Rafael, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Montessori De Terra Linda | San Rafael, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Montessori School - Novato | Novato, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ovejas School | San Rafael, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Papermill Creek Childrens Corner | Pt Reyes Sta, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ross Academy Montessori Schoo | Mill Valley, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| San Francisco International School | Ross, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| San Anselmo Cooperative Schoo | San Anselmo, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Francis Preschool | Novato, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Little School - Tiburon | Bel Tiburon, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Unity of Marin - Hamilton Mon | Novato, CA | $5,781 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
11 of 48 (23%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Marin YMCA
ARPA Emergency Assistance
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 16 of 48 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 47 | $475,743 | $7,350 |
| 2021 | 5 | $39,200 | $7,200 |
| 2022 | 13 | $223,510 | $12,978 |
| 2023 | 9 | $101,634 | $7,700 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $7,597 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Marin Child Care Council's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 1600 Los Gamos Dr Suite 365, San Rafael, CA, 94903.
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