· Public charity
Carole Robertson Center for Learning
The Carole Robertson Center For Learning educates, enriches, and empowers children and families through comprehensive child and family development programs.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $5.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan Family Services | $4,161,630 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | $635,841 |
| House Of Kidds Childcare | $315,796 |
| Weathersby Wonder World Inc | $233,707 |
| Positive Attitudes Working Inc | $184,315 |
| Serving All Families Everywhere 2 | $151,165 |
| Scribbles Daycare | $102,433 |
| Creative Development Child Care Inc | $85,788 |
| Sunrise Day Care Inc | $85,287 |
| Arco Iris Home Daycare LLC | $82,099 |
| Little Explorers Daycare | $75,556 |
| Little Space Daycare Corporation | $74,298 |
| TJ's Heavenly Angels Academy | $62,840 |
| Lorissa Learning Lab LLC | $59,786 |
| Child's World Academic Inc | $42,660 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $15.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -4% since the first grant, against -94% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMetropolitan Family Services4× · 2022–2025 · $13M · revenue +51%
- ENERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE4× · 2022–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +56%
- CCCHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY3× · 2022–2024 · $203k · revenue +34% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- APALBANY PARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue -94%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.
To provide day care to a diverse community in a loving, caring and supportive educational environment focused on the socio-emotional development of children ages 2 - 5.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
Childcare
Public service for daycare
Our mission is to provide quality child care in a warm and nurturing atmosphere. we offer developmentally appropriate activities in small and large group settings designed to enhance the social, emotional, intellectual, language, and…
The green byrne child care center services approximately 85 children ranging from 6 weeks to 6 years of age. teaching strategies for infants, toddlers and preschoolers align with the pennsylvania early learning standards and focus on…
Creative beginnings child development center is dedicated to providing high quality early childhood care and education by creating a safe, nurturing environment in which children develop a positive self image, a love of learning,…
A non-profit dedicated to providing a safe and clean daycare for children from infant aged to elementary aged level
Young Child Assiciates mission is to keep children safe and to support families in the daily care and guidance of their children. Our programs are designed to promote social, academic and personal growth using large and small group…
The children's center provides early child care and education in a vibrant learning community that emphasizes personal development, social relationships and family involvement, in order to establish a foundation for lifelong learning.
To provide accessible, affordable care in a secure, nurturing and creative environment for children six weeks to eleven years old.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE ATTITUDE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREATER ROCK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY PARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carole Robertson Center for Learning funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carole Robertson Center for Learning. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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