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Caldwell County Smart Start a Partnership for Young Children at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Caldwell County Smart Start a Partnership for Young Children

Helping caldwell county children arrive at school healthy and prepared for success.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$971kEducation$600kHealth$168k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $209,955, the rows itemized in this filing. The $300,293 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $90,338 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$14,480
Median grant
1
States reached
$557k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS$89,995
NORTHLAKES ACADEMY INC$30,000
CREATIVE BEGINNINGS LLC$26,000
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTER$20,310
COUNTRYSIDE CHILD CARE INC$14,480
GROGANS SMALL WORLD #1$8,680
GROGANS SMALL WORLD #2$7,920
FOREVER YOUNG CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$6,870
HAPPY HEARTS LLC$5,700
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NORTHLAKES ACADEMY INC: $30k → 12%GROGANS SMALL WORLD #2: $10k → 16%NORTHLAKES ACADEMY INC: $30k → 12%NORTHLAKES ACADEMY INC: $30k → 12%NORTHLAKES ACADEMY INC: $30k → 12%NORTHLAKES ACADEMY INC: $30k → 12%NORTHLAKES ACADEMY INC: $30k → 12%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTER: $25k → 16%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTER: $23k → 16%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTER: $22k → 16%COUNTRYSIDE CHILD CARE INC: $22k → 16%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTER: $20k → 16%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTER: $20k → 16%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTER: $20k → 16%COUNTRYSIDE CHILD CARE INC: $19k → 16%COUNTRYSIDE CHILD CARE INC: $18k → 16%COUNTRYSIDE CHILD CARE INC: $14k → 16%COUNTRYSIDE CHILD CARE INC: $14k → 16%COUNTRYSIDE CHILD CARE INC: $13k → 16%GROGANS SMALL WORLD #1: $12k → 16%GROGANS SMALL WORLD #1: $12k → 16%GROGANS SMALL WORLD #1: $12k → 16%GROGANS SMALL WORLD #1: $10k → 16%GROGANS SMALL WORLD #1: $10k → 16%CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS: $120k → 16%CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS: $120k → 16%CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS: $90k → 16%CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS: $90k → 16%CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS: $90k → 16%CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS: $90k → 16%CALDWELL COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $70k → 16%CALDWELL COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $54k → 16%CALDWELL COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $45k → 16%CREATIVE BEGINNINGS LLC: $30k → 16%CREATIVE BEGINNINGS LLC: $30k → 16%CREATIVE BEGINNINGS LLC: $30k → 16%CREATIVE BEGINNINGS LLC: $30k → 16%CREATIVE BEGINNINGS LLC: $30k → 16%CALDWELL COMMITTEE FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $27k → 16%CALDWELL COMMITTEE FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $27k → 16%CREATIVE BEGINNINGS LLC: $26k → 16%CALDWELL COMMITTEE FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $24k → 16%CALDWELL COMMITTEE FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $23k → 16%A WORLD OF DISCOVERY CDC #2: $12k → 16%A WORLD OF DISCOVERY CDC #2: $12k → 16%A WORLD OF DISCOVERY CDC #2: $11k → 16%A WORLD OF DISCOVERY CDC #2: $10k → 16%A WORLD OF DISCOVERY CDC #2: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 13 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$1.7M
$10k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $600k
  • NA
    NORTHLAKES ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $180k
  • CB
    CREATIVE BEGINNINGS LLC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $176k

Funded once

  • T
    TOTLAND
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • LC
    LITTLE CUBS
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • PM
    PRECIOUS MEMORIES
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS: $599,995 · OtherCALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLSNORTHLAKES ACADEMY INC: $180,000 · OtherNORTHLAKES ACADEMY INCCREATIVE BEGINNINGS LLC: $176,000 · OtherCREATIVE BEGINNINGS LLCCALDWELL COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $168,144 · OtherCALDWELL COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTBRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTER: $129,860 · OtherBRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTERGROGANS SMALL WORLD #1: $121,070 · OtherGROGANS SMALL WORLD #1CALDWELL COMMITTEE FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $101,829 · OtherCALDWELL COMMITTEE FOR HEALTHY FAMILIESCOUNTRYSIDE CHILD CARE INC: $101,720 · OtherCOUNTRYSIDE CHILD CARE INC+8 more: $160,180 · Other+8 more
Other$1,738,798

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALDWELL COMMITTEE FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $101,829 over 4y, 57% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CALDWELL COMMITTEE FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Caldwell County Smart Start a Partnership for Young Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caldwell County Smart Start a Partnership for Young Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’22
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY22–22
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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