· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD CARE AWARE OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS | $34,500 |
| RAISE MONTANA | $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 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC | $20,000 |
| CHILD CARE AWARE OF MINNESOTA | $20,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST OF MINNESOTA | $20,000 |
| LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND | $20,000 |
| THINK SMALL | $20,000 |
| CORPORATION FOR OHIO APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
| CHILD CARE ANSWERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $20,000 |
| THREAD ALASKA | $20,000 |
| CHILD CARE AWARE OF MISSOURI | $20,000 |
| CHILD CARE AWARE OF NORTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $399k · revenue +48%- KAKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES5× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +748%
- MCMINNESOTA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK7× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- UCUS Chamber of Commerce Foundationone grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue -27%
- CAChildren At Riskone grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue +5%
- WEWYOMING EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -85%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.
Child care resources' mission is to help kids grow into successful adults by enriching the learning environment of their crucial early years.
To promote each child's development by providing high quality early childhood education.
Advocate for early childhood social & economic development and professionals who work with children and their families to advance this mission.
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.
To provide access to quality child care and early education in Sonoma County through advocacy, direct service and empowerment.
Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…
To enhance the quality of family life in monmouth county by ensuring the highest caliber of safe, affordable and developmentally sound child care services for all children. child care resources invests in monmouth county's children by…
To support and strengthen families and child care professionals who endeavor to raise healthy, educated children. we will provide this support with creative and dynamic programs, services and resources.
Ccc connects families to resources, collaborates with early childhood education programs, and engages with the community to create a foundation for children to be successful in life.
To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…
4c for children educates and supports the adults who care for young children and advocates for public support for quality early education and care for all children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Child Care Connection Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Right Turn Inc. 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.
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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds RAISE MONTANA ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE CHOICES INC ↗
- Who funds US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children ↗
- Who funds Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE ANSWERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
- Who funds Think Small ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE RIVER PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTR ↗
- Who funds Children At Risk ↗
- Who funds THRIVING WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK DBA CHILD CARE AWARE WA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Child Care Resource & Referral Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Child Care Council of Nassau Inc ↗
- Who funds AGENDA FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION FOR OHIO APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds Children's Council of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD CARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds 4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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.
- The Child Care Connection Inc — 92% of income from government
- 4CS of Passaic County Inc — 92% of income from government
- Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
- Community Action Organization — 67% of income from government
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
- Western Oregon University Development Foundation — 1% of income from government
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 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.