| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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| Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) | (a) 2021 | (b) 2022 | (c) 2023 | (d) 2024 | (e) 2025 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 298,250 | 427,887 | 458,245 | 318,855 | 767,033 | 2,270,270 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf .... | 0 | |||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | 0 | |||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 298,250 | 427,887 | 458,245 | 318,855 | 767,033 | 2,270,270 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f) .. | 1,814,591 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 455,679 | |||||
| Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) | (a) 2021 | (b) 2022 | (c) 2023 | (d) 2024 | (e) 2025 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 298,250 | 427,887 | 458,245 | 318,855 | 767,033 | 2,270,270 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 35 | 35 | ||||
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 0 | |||||
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 2,270,305 | |||||
| Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) | (a) 2021 | (b) 2022 | (c) 2023 | (d) 2024 | (e) 2025 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
| Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) | (a) 2021 | (b) 2022 | (c) 2023 | (d) 2024 | (e) 2025 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6 | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975 | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included on line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e |
Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 0.015 of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by 0.035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | 1 | |
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2
Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
2 | |
| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | 3 | |
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | 4 | |
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required - provide details in Part VI) | 5 | |
| 6Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 5. | 6 | |
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7
Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
7 | |
| 8 Distributable amount for 2025 from Section C, line 6 | 8 | |
| 9 Line 7 amount divided by Line 8 amount | 9 | |
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2025 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2025 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2025 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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2
Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2025 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI).
See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2025: | ||||
| a From 2020....... | ||||
| b From 2021....... | ||||
| c From 2022....... | ||||
| d From 2023....... | ||||
| e From 2024....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2025 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2020 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from line 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2025 from Section D, line 6: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2025 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from line 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2025, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2025. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2026. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2021..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2022..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2023..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2024..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2025..... | ||||
| Facts And Circumstances Test |
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| Current Year Facts and Circumstances: The Clare Rose Foundation Center for Creative Youth Development (The Center) is a philanthropic intermediary that invests in leadership and infrastructure to convene, connect, and curate the resources, relationships, and opportunities needed to strengthen the field of Creative Youth Development. We are predominantly a support organization working with leaders and staff of creative youth development nonprofits to provide technical assistance to build the much-needed organizational capacity for them to carry out their missions. We do this through leadership coaching/consulting, grant writing and grants management, strategic planning, staff recruitment and interim staffing, and sharing evaluation tools for measuring program outcomes and impact. Our ultimate goal is to provide the support services needed for organizations to be sustainable and thrive over the long-term. Over the last five years we have continuously increased our income through a diversity of public resources, including from a few large donors, some government and 501c3 grants, and we have consistently received a portion of our revenue through earned income (fee for support services). We are supported by the public, and we have met the 10% threshold each year. In fact, our public support test has averaged 20% over the last five years. We attribute our inability to get to the 33.33% threshold to a few things. When we were founded, we didnt want to compete with our community partners within the creative youth development field for public funding, thus, to mitigate competition, we only applied for grants that were not available to our partner organizations. We have realized that the funding field is big and diversified enough to support all of us within the ecosystem, whether providing direct services or support services. We remedied this by broadening our search for public funding through grants, and we have already secured a new government grant through the City of San Diego, which should be awarded in 2026. And, we have identified and applied for a state grant, and will be applying for a few additional local government grants. A second fact that we believe has hindered our ability to increase our public support percentage to the 33.33% was that a lot of the work that we have done has been done behind the scenes or discretely. Much like the silent service (the US Navy Submarine Service), The Center has worked with organizational leaders to navigate some difficult waters, and we have done this out of the spotlight. This includes when an organization had an abrupt departure of a critical development staff member; The Center was able to cover down and keep the grants prospecting, writing, and reporting moving so there wouldnt be any gaps in income or compliance for the nonprofit. We have stepped in to fill development positions at least 5 times over the last five years. We have also worked with organizations going through major transitions within their leadership. The Center has stepped in to be the anchor through a storm during a time of tremendous change. As a support organization, we are mindful of the confidentiality needed to be a trusted partner while building capacity, and we respect that bond with our partners, so much so that we havent shared the depth of the work and the effort we put in with leaders and organizations to right the organizational ship. We understand that we do have to be more visible in order to garner support and understanding of our work. Thus, we have begun to describe our work in ways that tell the story of the true needs in the nonprofit sector, while still keeping things with our community partners confidential and professional. We have decided to shift to put a larger effort into our storytelling as we move into our future, so that we can continue to diversify our funding stream to enhance our public support percentage. A third factor that we believe has hindered our ability to get to the 33.33% public support threshold has been our name. We are often confused with the Clare Rose Foundation, which is a private foundation. Many funders across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors have misunderstood that we are a 501c3 that is separate from the Clare Rose Foundation. The result of this confusion is that the public assumes that we do not need funding as other nonprofits do, because they misperceive that we are a foundation. Thus, in 2026 we will be re-naming our organization and rebranding our identity. We believe this change will immediately and positively impact our public support, as we will be able to diversify our funding base even more broadly. Our funding sources will still include government grants, private donations, foundation grants, and earned revenue. But we believe it will be easier to receive funding from multiple public sources that is needed to meet the threshold. Finally, we believe because we have worked specifically in the field of creative youth development our resources have been limited. Some donors and philanthropic foundations believe that the creative youth development field is too niche, or highly specialized, and they prefer to fund organizations whose impact reaches a broader community. While we still believe that it is the depth of the impact that matters, we are planning on expanding the ecosystem in which we work as we rebrand. We are planning to work in the broader fields of youth development, arts and culture, and the positive humanities. Our approach within these broader fields is still to continue to work deeply with our community partners and our communities, tailoring our services to their specific needs, in order to have the biggest public impact. It is important to note that while we continue to strive for the 33.33% public support threshold, all of our services we have provided to our community partners and the broader community have had tremendous public impact. In fact, in the capacity building aspect of our programming, we have been able to bring in over $5 million dollars to the creative youth development field. This $5 million dollars gave organizations the ability to grow and deepen their much-needed programs. For example, for two organizations, we were able to assist them in securing their largest grants in their respective histories. One was over $350,000 and supported enhanced programming around mental health and wellness for youth, who have been experiencing mental health issues, such as anxiety, and depression. The grant allowed the organization to hire professional mental health staff to support youth during challenging times. Additionally, for another organization, we co-wrote a nearly $600,000 grant that they received to expand their academic support services to the youth they serve and their alumni, who are in their first couple of years of college, which is also a difficult time where additional support is needed. These two examples demonstrate that the work we do has a public benefit that ripples through the community partners with whom we work. We have also worked with 7 organizations in their recruitment and hiring of key leadership staff, especially in executive leadership and development positions. We also provide professional development opportunities, as needed. For example, we helped develop tools for financial modeling and scenario planning, which we shared with organizations to help plan for sustainability in the fast-shifting philanthropic landscape, which was critical to our partner organizations. We have also assisted by connecting them to a team of experts, if needed. For example, we work closely with professional partners including a financial expert and two different nonprofit legal firms, to whom we have referred many community partners, when they need financial and/or legal assistance. We have also successfully piloted a few projects with our nonprofit partners one in which we helped them to build up their financial, grants, organizational, and program infrastructure. With new infrastructure/systems in place, they were able to grow their revenue stream from $16,666 to $300,000+ and to hire 3 employees and some contractors for specialty work. Previously they had been an all-volunteer organization. Most importantly with our support, they were able to serve more young people through their programming. In our capacity building services, we have also worked in partnership with organizations to co-create logic models, theories of change, and cases for support for them to be able to garner more support. We also responded to a need in the field to measure belonging in creative youth development programming. We created a belonging survey that at least 5 creative youth development organizations have adopted and/or adapted into their existing evaluation methods, which is critical for continued support. We have also had tremendous impact in building the field of creative youth development another key area of our work. We have acted as cr |
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| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b | A COPY OF THE FORM 990 WAS PROVIDED TO THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT PRIOR TO FILING. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c | UPON ENGAGEMENT, ELECTION, OR HIRING, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, AND KEY EMPLOYEES ARE INFORMED ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY AND THEIR REQUIREMENT TO DISCLOSE IN WRITING ANY POTENTIAL OR ACTUAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a | IT IS THE ORGANIZATION'S POLICY THAT COMPENSATION OF ANY DIRECTOR, OFFICER, OR KEY EMPLOYEE IS REASONABLE. DETERMINATION OF REASONABLENESS ENTAILS GATHERING RELEVANT MARKET DATA FOLLOWED BY REVIEW, DELIBERATION, AND WRITTEN APPROVAL BY A DISINTERESTED BOARD. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 | THE ORGANIZATION'S FORM 1023 AND FORM 990 RETURNS ARE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL CHARITIES REGISTRY. THE ORGANIZATION CAN ALSO MAKE SUCH DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 | DOCUMENTS SUBJECT TO PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OR INSPECTION ARE ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL CHARITIES REGISTRY OR MADE AVAILABLE UPON WRITTEN REQUEST TO THE ORGANIZATION. |
| FORM 990, PART IX, LINE 11G, OTHER FEES FOR SERVICES | CONTRACTORS, CONSULTANTS, AND HONORARIUM HONOREES PERFORM VARIOUS SERVICES THAT ARE INTEGRAL TO THE ORGANIZATION'S PROGRAMS, INCLUDING FACILITATION OF CONVENINGS, GRANT MANAGEMENT AND WRITING, ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH, NETWORK STEERING COMMITTEE STIPENDS, AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT. |
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