· Public charity
Center for Early Success
The mission of the CENTER FOR EARLY SUCCESS is to strengthen the system of individuals and organizations caring for and educating children age birth to five.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k5 grants · $711k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUST KIDS | $837,772 |
| ALTAVISTA AREA & BROOKNEAL YMCA | $614,237 |
| STEPS | $275,107 |
| CARING HEARTS ACADEMY | $272,298 |
| BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA | $256,735 |
| TEACHABLE MOMENTS | $164,760 |
| TED & TED'S TINY TOTS | $156,649 |
| MARY BETHUNE ACADEMY | $130,445 |
| CATERPILLAR CLUBHOUSE #4 | $130,050 |
| AMELON EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $128,926 |
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 (FY21–25, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 91% 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
- JKJUST KIDS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC3× · 2021–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +121% · 75% of their budget
- AAAltavista Area YMCA Inc3× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +29%
- BABEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA2× · 2024–2025 · $500k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INCone grant, 2024 · $282k · revenue -1%
- EEELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $188k · revenue 0%
- TETLT ENTERPRISESone grant, 2021 · $136k
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.
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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 36 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 JUST KIDS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Altavista Area YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds STEPS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DANVILLE VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE-PITTSYLVANIA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA FAMILY YMCA ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Dan River Region · Centra Health Inc · Womack Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Center for Early Success funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Early Success. Bigger dots raise more.
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