Grants for day care centers

Name: Top 25 grants made to child daycare centers
Creator: Cause IQ
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1,389 child daycare centers received at least $123.8 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 1,059 grants made from 778 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 778 foundations, 87% made just a single grant to day care centers, and 2% made grants to four or more day care centers. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$123,812,166

Total grant dollars given to day care centers

1,059

Number of grants made annually to day care centers

778

Number of grantmakers funding day care centers

$1,500

Median grant size to day care centers

Foundations that support child daycare centers

Out of all grants made to day care centers, 75% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 98% of the dollar-value of grants to day care centers. Foundations funding day care centers also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, educational service providers, food banks, homeless shelters, and scholarship organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	589
Medium	95
Large	94

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	29
Private	602
Corporate	55
Other	92

Grants made

Grants made to day care centers	Number of grantmakers
1	684
2-3	73
4-10	14
11+	7

Top 10 foundations supporting child daycare centers

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to day care centers	Number of grants made to day care centers	Median grant size
Westrock Foundation	GA	National	0.1%	32	$39
Community Foundation of Collier County	FL	National	0.2%	24	$1,000
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.1%	22	$10
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.1%	17	$1,495
Buell Foundation	CO	State	0.2%	12	$1,324
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	12	$238
Dollar General Literacy Foundation	TN	National	0.3%	11	$3,000
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	10	$1,250
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	9	$555
Community Foundation of North Central Wi	WI	Metro	0.4%	6	$2,560

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Child daycare centers grantees

Day care centers with more than $5 million in total revenues received 92% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 27% of all day care centers.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	1,049
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	10

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$2,000
$100k-$500k	$2,000
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$1,500
>$5M	$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
Florida	103
New York	91
Massachusetts	77
Illinois	76
Other	712

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	78
Chicago	63
Boston	60
Seattle	48
Other	678

Top 25 grants made to day care centers

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Community Coordinated Care for Children	$77,531,584	SR & VPK	Early Learning Coalition of Orange
Campus Child Care	$9,300,000	Comm. Gift & Char. Contrib.	Harvard University
Wake County SmartStart (WCSS)	$7,240,674	NC Young Children	North Carolina Partnership for Children
Mecklenburg Partnership for Children	$6,491,457	NC Young Children	North Carolina Partnership for Children
Rolling Plains Management Corporation	$5,283,707	To Provide Child Care Assistance To Low-Income Families in the Organization's Service Area.	Workforce Solutions North Texas
Association for Supportive Child Care (ASCC)	$5,280,688	Program Support	Valley of the Sun United Way
Educational First Steps	$2,643,985	General Support	The Dallas Foundation
Clare Swan Early Learning Center	$2,617,169	Cash	Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC)
Clare Swan Early Learning Center	$2,617,169	Cash	Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC)
Clare Swan Early Learning Center	$2,617,169	Educational	Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC)
Square One / Springfield Day Nursery Corporation	$5,000	Holyoke Children With	Newell C Mansir Tuw
The Children's Center of New Milford	$5,000	Programs	The Karlson Family Foundation
Sound Child Care Solutions	$5,000	Family Interest Grantmaking	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Eagles' Nest Early Learning Center	$5,000	Tuition Assistance (First Payment)	Buell Foundation
The Cub's Den	$5,000	Tuition Assistance for Low-Income Children (First Payment)	Buell Foundation
The Cub's Den	$5,000	Tuition Assistance for Low-Income Children (Second Payment)	Buell Foundation
Acre Family Day Care Corporation (AFCC)	$5,000	Child Care Services	Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund
North Bay Children's Center (NBCC)	$5,000	Raising A Reader Program	The Upjohn Fund of San Francisco
U Can Learn	$5,000	Education	The FHC Foundation
Childcare Resources of Indian River	$5,000	General Purpose	The John and Judi O'Steen Family Foundation
Columbia Children's Center	$5,000	Children's Programs	Childrens Foundation of Columbia County
Welbourne Avenue Nursery and Kindergarten	$5,000	Education of Underprivileged Children	Violet and Harold Jaeke Foundation
Precious Gifts Day Care and Learning Center	$5,000	Charitable Exempt Purpose	Louise B Blackman Family Foundation
Jewish Community Center of the North Shore (JCCNS)	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	Turkanis Family Foundation
Mount Kisco Child Care Center (MKCCC)	$5,000	Community Impact	United Way of Westchester and Putnam (UWWP)

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Day care centers" category for this page is determined by the "P33: Child Day Care" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.