Santa Cruz County Prenatal to Five Online Fiscal Map
The Santa Cruz County Online Fiscal Map is an interactive tool that shows how public and private funds flow into programs serving children prenatal to age five and their families. A fiscal map provides a clear picture of who funds what, how much is invested, and where gaps or overlaps exist in the system.
Built from the county’s Comprehensive Fiscal Analysis, the map shows how federal, state, local, and private funds support early care and education, family strengthening services, and system-level initiatives. It helps policymakers, service providers, and community members understand the current landscape of investments and identify opportunities to better coordinate resources and meet the true cost of high-quality services.
Users can explore funding streams by program type and administering agency. By translating detailed fiscal mapping into clear visuals and summaries, the tool supports advocacy, planning, and decision-making to build a more equitable and coordinated prenatal to five system.
Explore the Fiscal Map to view current funding for prenatal to five programs and compare it to the Cost Modeling Results to understand what it would take to meet the true cost of high-quality services for every child and family.
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Fiscal Mapping
Fiscal mapping is the process of identifying and documenting all funding sources that support programs and services for young children and their families. It provides a detailed picture of where funds come from (federal, state, local, and private), who administers them, what services and goals they support, the populations served, and the overall reach or capacity of those funds.
Fiscal mapping shows all the money that supports programs for young children and their families — where it comes from, who manages it, what it’s used for, and how many people it can serve.
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