How much did CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA grant in FY2024?

Human Services$1.7MSocial Science$399kEducation$227kEnvironment$191kEmployment$40kCrime & Legal$33kCommunity Improvement$26kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$475k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

accessadvocacychildren riskrisk servesserves catalystcatalyst changechange children

2022

transformationeducation youngyoung childrenearly childhoodstatewideaccessibleearly education

2023

ecrcsisters augustinetransformationreadinessoutcomesresiliencesuccess

2024

liifstrengtheneconomicaffordable housingtransformationimpactearly education

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$47M

Total assets

Largest grants

RAISE MONTANA$34,500
CHILD CARE AWARE OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS$34,500
CHILD CARE AWARE OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS$34,000
CHILD CARE AWARE OF KANSAS$25,875
CHILD CARE CHOICES INC$20,000
CHILD CARE AWARE OF MINNESOTA$20,000
CORPORATION FOR OHIO APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT$20,000
FAMILIES FIRST OF MINNESOTA$20,000
THREAD ALASKA$20,000
LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND$20,000
CHILD CARE AWARE OF NORTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS$20,000
EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC$20,000
CHILD CARE AWARE OF MISSOURI$20,000
THINK SMALL$20,000
CHILD CARE ANSWERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA$20,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.5M · 21 repeat orgs$608k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$501k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+65%

Still filing today

100%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

NORC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
2× · 2020–2021 · $399k · revenue +112%
RM
RAISE MONTANA
3× · 2022–2024 · $222k · revenue +30% · 42% of their budget
TF
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY
5× · 2019–2023 · $208k · revenue +6%

Funded once

UC
US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +38%
OA
OHIO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDRENgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue +29%
WE
WYOMING EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERSHIPgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +326%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care & education through integrated support & expertise.

Human Services

Community Connections for Children Inc

Community connections for children, inc ensures that all families have access to affordable, high quality child care choices that lead to success in school and life.

Human Services

Child Care Resource & Referral

Child Care Resource and Referral promotes and facilitates affordable quality child care through assistance, education and advocacy in Will, Grundy, Kendall, and Kankakee counties.

Human Services

Child Care Associates

To assist family successes through excellence in comprehensive child care and development services.

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Child Care Coordinating Council

The Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County, Inc. (4Cs) connects and empowers families, educators, and child care providers with resources today for a stronger San Mateo County tomorrow.

Human Services

Child Care Council of Westchester Inc

Westchester County's leading authority on child care, the Child Care Council of Westchester, Inc. is one of the largest child care resource and referral agencies in the state of New York. A nonprofit, 501(c)(3) agency, the Council plays a…

Human Services

Child Care Resource & Referral Network

The CCRRN is committed to supporting families, child care providers, and employers in their pursuit of quality child care and family support services that are both available and affordable. To this end,the CCRRN strives to assure

Human Services

Community Child Care Connection Inc

Children Care Education

Human Services

West Central Child Care

Resource & referral child care

Human Services

Mid-Columbia Childrens Council Inc

Educating children and families with innovative, high quality early childhood learning opportunities and family partnerships to build better communities, one person at a time.

Education

Early Childhood Collective of Douglas County Inc

Early Childhood Collective connects the coalition of early childhood resources that serves growing families in Douglas County.

Education

Child Care Action Council of

To promote and nurture early learning communities where families and children thrive.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Child Care Connection Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seven Hills Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/55

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,510

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/51

Grantees still filing

45/51

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$1,688,658Other$520,750Social Science$399,263Education$227,221Environment$191,207Employment$40,000Crime & Legal$32,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Save The Children Federation IncCT17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Save The Children Federation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Alliance for Early Success Fka · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RAISE MONTANA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 810508479 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RAISE MONTANA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Child Care Aware of America?

Find your warmest path to Child Care Aware of America through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Child Care Aware of America?

More from the funding graph

CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Child Care Aware of America?

More from the funding graph