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Chatham County Partnership for Children at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Chatham County Partnership for Children

In collaboration with our community partners, we plan, fund, and implement quality early childhood education, health, and family support initiatives.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$689k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$9.2MEducation$8.4MHuman Services$1.0MHealth$942k
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 75 grants below total $2,951,303, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,045,393 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $94,090 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 $10k27 grants · $193k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $937k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $821k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$18,572
Median grant
1
States reached
$195k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHATHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS$689,253
PLAYMATES CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER$311,096
TELAMON HEAD START$152,460
CHATHAM COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$141,660
THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE-GURUKUL LLC$84,745
JUMP START UNIVERSITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER$73,935
CHILDREN FIRST$69,024
PLAYMATES 2$66,611
GOLDEN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER LLC$63,556
YOUNG EXPLORERS CHILD CARE CENTER INC$56,969
PRECIOUS PROMISES ACADEMY$56,530
LEARNING WORLD CHILD CARE & PRESCHOOL$55,269
GRACE CHRISTIAN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$48,366
MOMMY'S MOMENT DAY CARE LLC$45,500
BUSY BEES$42,921
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TELAMON HEAD START: $224k → 8%TELAMON HEAD START: $216k → 8%TELAMON HEAD START: $169k → 8%TELAMON HEAD START: $157k → 8%TELAMON HEAD START: $156k → 8%TELAMON HEAD START: $154k → 8%TELAMON HEAD START: $152k → 8%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.
$19M · 85 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

85 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
16

Total granted

$19M
$208k

Still filing today

5%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther
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
    CHATHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $5.9M
  • PC
    PLAYMATES CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.5M
  • TC
    TELAMON CORPORATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue -15%

Funded once

  • RN
    ROBYNS NEST CREATIVE LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $61k
  • KP
    KIDDS PLACE
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • K
    KID-A-KADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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

6 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. 6 of the 106 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
1/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHATHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS: $5,912,354 · OtherCHATHAM COUNTY SCHOOLSPLAYMATES CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,503,319 · OtherPLAYMATES CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTERCHATHAM COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $941,706 · OtherCHILDREN FIRST: $731,709 · Other+99 more: $8,768,017 · Other+99 moreTELAMON CORPORATION: $1,228,623 · Human ServicesFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC: $469,758 · PhilanthropySOWING SEEDS EDUCATION LLC: $12,424 · Education
Other$17,857,105Human Services$1,228,623Philanthropy$469,758Education$12,424

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTELAMON CORPORATION: $1,228,623 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC: $469,758 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOALITION FOR FAMILIES IN LEE COUNT: $165,869 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetSTEVENS CENTER: $151,083 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSOWING SEEDS EDUCATION LLC: $12,424 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetJ S WATERS PTSA: $6,920 over 1y, 10.0% 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 TELAMON CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR FAMILIES IN LEE COUNT ↗
  • Who funds STEVENS CENTER ↗

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.

Early Years IncOrange County Partner…Wake County Smart Sta…Amazonsmile Foundation
Early Years IncNC29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Early Years Inc · Orange County Partnership for Young Children · Wake County Smart Start Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 106 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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