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Child Care Aware of America
CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA (ccaoa) is the only national organization that supports every part of the child care system. Together with an on-the-ground network of child care resource and referral (ccr&r) organizations working in states and communities, ccaoa advances high-quality, affordable child care and turns a patchwork of resources…
- $372k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $34,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $47M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Child Care Aware of America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $372k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $441k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $490k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $518k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $910k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $150k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $220k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $220k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Opinion Research Center | $399,263 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United | $326,664 | 6 | 1% |
| Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies | $264,539 | 5 | 3% |
| Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network | $261,664 | 7 | 2% |
| Raise Montana | $222,000 | 3 | 42% |
| The Family Conservancy | $207,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Child Care Connections Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Mid-Sioux Opportunity Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Northwest Arkansas Child Care Resource and Referral Center Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Missouri Child Care Resource and Referral Network | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 54 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Child Care Aware of America supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Save The Children Federation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · WK Kellogg Foundation · Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Child Care Aware of America
- How much does Child Care Aware of America give?
- Child Care Aware of America reported 17 grants totaling $371,875 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Child Care Aware of America fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (46%), Human Services (43%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Child Care Aware of America's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Opinion Research Center ($399k), Community Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United ($327k), Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies ($265k).
- Does Child Care Aware of America fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Child Care Aware of America?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Save The Children Federation Inc, Otto Bremer Trust, WK Kellogg Foundation.
- Where is Child Care Aware of America based?
- Child Care Aware of America is based in VA.
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