· Public charity
Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread
To advance the quality of early education and child development by empowering parents, educating child care professionals, and collaborating with our communities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $4,245,394 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,806,450 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $561,056 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $467k
- $250k+7 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH PENINSULA HOSPITAL INC | $779,465 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $714,451 |
| CITY & BOROUGH OF JUNEAU | $625,550 |
| GIRDWOOD INC | $530,000 |
| PLAY-N-LEARN CENTER INC dba T | $400,421 |
| ALASKA JEWISH CAMPUS | $392,020 |
| SITKA COUNSELING & PREVENTION | $298,115 |
| HOONAH INDIAN ASSOCIATION | $158,270 |
| LITTLE DIPPERS LC | $152,000 |
| ALASKA CHILDRENS TRUST | $96,602 |
| CAMP FIRE ALASKA | $60,000 |
| NUNAKINS | $30,000 |
| PROVIDENCE CENTER FOR CHILD D | $8,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $11.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
240 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 227 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PNPLAY N LEARN CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +6% · 30% of their budget
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANCHORAGE ALASKA5× · 2020–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +81% · 37% of their budget
- AFASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN - SOUTHEAST ALASKA7× · 2017–2023 · $3.2M · revenue +541% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF VALDEZone grant, 2024 · $880k
- CRCopper River Native Association Incone grant, 2023 · $613k · revenue -4%
- FNFairbanks Native Associationone grant, 2023 · $418k · revenue +3%
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.
Mountain Tots preschool provides high quality early learning enrichment programs that enhances educational, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development as well as Kindergarten-readiness. We provide preschool and childcare…
Providing high quality daycare in a nurturing, safe, environment.
Child Education Center is a licensed daycare serving children ages 6 weeks thru 6 years.
Provide early childhood education to local children
provide a warm, stimulating and caring foundation for children to play and explore. Our focus is to provide a quality and developmentally appropriate environment which supports children in their social, emotional, and cognitive growth.
To promote each child's development by providing high quality early childhood education.
To offer a loving, nuturing, and safe environment. We provide early childhood care and education for children in the local community.
To advance the quality of early education and child development by empowering parents, educating child care professionals, and collaborating with our communities. We provide statewide Child Care Resources and Referral Services;…
Educational and Social Development
Providing childcare and early childhood education to approximately 100 children for families of all income levels. Childrens ages range from 2 1/2 to 12 years old.
To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for the Education of Young Children - Southeast Alaska and the most unlike its peers is Kodiak Baptist Mission. 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 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 320 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CAMP FIRE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANCHORAGE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN - SOUTHEAST ALASKA ↗
- Who funds KAWERAK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PENINSULA HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CCS Early Learning ↗
- Who funds SEWARD PREVENTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska ↗
- Who funds GIRDWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Open Arms Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds SITKA COUNSELING AND PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Kodiak Baptist Mission ↗
- Who funds Anchorage Montessori School ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE GYMNASTICS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Kids Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES OF ALASKA ↗
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: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Association for the Education of Young Children - Southeast Alaska · Alaska Children's Trust · United Way of Anchorage · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · Association of Alaska School Boards · Providence Alaska Foundation · Sitka Ak Permanent Charit Tr-Main · Frances & David Rose Foundation
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 Connection Inc DBA Thread 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.