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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.

$4.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$779k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$38MHealth$21MEducation$16MYouth Development$8.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$5.1MReligion$4.1MArts & Culture$3.5MCommunity Improvement$2.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $4,245,394, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,806,450 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $561,056 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $467k
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.7M
$298,115
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%PETERSBURG CHILDRENS CENTER: $156k → 7%EARLY LEARNING COALITION: $84k → 7%LITTLE DIPPERS LEARNING CENTE: $409k → 9%BRISTOL BAY NATIVE ASSOCIATIO: $189k → 20%Play- N -Learn dba Trivalaska: $967k → 21%EARLY LEARNING COALITION: $50k → 7%KODIAK BAPTIST MISSION: $468k → 8%LITTLE DIPPERS LC: $152k → 9%NUNAKINS: $30k → 20%PLAY-N-LEARN CENTER INC dba T: $935k → 21%Petersburg Childrens Center: $89k → 7%EARLY LEARNING COALITION: $23k → 7%Kodiak Baptist Mission: $238k → 8%Little Dippers Learning Cente: $34k → 9%PLAY-N-LEARN CENTER INC dba T: $400k → 21%KODIAK BAPTIST MISSION: $141k → 8%SHELDON JACKSON CHILD CARE CE: $124k → 8%LITTLE DIPPERS LC: $24k → 9%Play-N-Learn Ctr - dba THRIVA: $177k → 21%PETERSBURG CHILDRENS CENTER: $46k → 7%Play N Learn dba Thrivalaska: $1.0M → 8%PLAY-N-LEARN CENTER INC dba T: $165k → 21%Play N Learn dba Thrivalaska: $1.0M → 8%Play N Learn dba Thrivalaska: $1.0M → 8%SHELDON JACKSON CHILD CARE CE: $68k → 8%SMART START LEARNING CENTER: $377k → 8%SHELDON JACKSON CHILD CARE CE: $44k → 8%Smart Start Learning Center: $196k → 8%SMART START LEARNING CENTER: $111k → 8%ENEPUT CHILDRENS CENTER: $107k → 8%Eneput Childrens Center: $65k → 8%SELDOVIA COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL: $38k → 11%Seldovia Community Preschool: $28k → 11%ENEPUT CHILDRENS CENTER: $31k → 8%ALASKA CHILDRENS TRUST: $505k → 10%CREATIVE PLAY & PRESCHOOLS L: $292k → 11%CREATIVE PLAY & PRESCHOOLS L: $150k → 11%ALASKA CHILDRENS TRUST: $97k → 10%CREATIVE PLAY & PRESCHOOLS L: $90k → 11%HILLCREST CHILDRENS CENTER I: $306k → 10%Hillcrest Childrens Services: $92k → 10%HILLCREST CHILDRENS CENTER I: $83k → 10%BEAR VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIA: $250k → 10%BEAR VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIA: $98k → 10%BEAR VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIA: $68k → 10%LITTLE BEARS PLAYHOUSE INC: $102k → 10%Little Bears Playhouse Inc: $46k → 10%LITTLE BEARS PLAYHOUSE INC: $31k → 10%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95M · 240 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

240 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 227 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

240
80

Total granted

$95M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+3%

Still filing today

21%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PN
    PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +6% · 30% of their budget
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANCHORAGE ALASKA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +81% · 37% of their budget
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN - SOUTHEAST ALASKA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $3.2M · revenue +541% · 53% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF VALDEZ
    one grant, 2024 · $880k
  • CR
    Copper River Native Association Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $613k · revenue -7%
  • FN
    Fairbanks Native Association
    one grant, 2023 · $418k · revenue +3%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mountain Tots Preschool

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…

Education
2
Little Anchor Child Care

Providing high quality daycare in a nurturing, safe, environment.

—
3
Child Education Center

Child Education Center is a licensed daycare serving children ages 6 weeks thru 6 years.

Human Services
4
Skagit Valley Early Learning Center

Provide early childhood education to local children

Education
5
Little Huskies Learning Center

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.

Human Services
6
Community Child Care Center

To promote each child's development by providing high quality early childhood education.

—
7
Little Huskies Childcare

To offer a loving, nuturing, and safe environment. We provide early childhood care and education for children in the local community.

Human Services
8
Pediatric Resource Center of Alaska
Human Services
9
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. We provide statewide Child Care Resources and Referral Services;…

Human Services
10
Pinedale Preschool Inc

Educational and Social Development

—
11
Puyallup Playcare Center

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.

Human Services
12
Kids Corner Inc

To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for the Education of Young Children - Southeast Alaska; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 320 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.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
41/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANCHORAGE ALASKA: $5,610,322 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANCHORAGE ALASKAPlay N Learn dba Thrivalaska: $3,239,765 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN - SOUTHEAST ALASKA: $3,178,221 · OtherCITY & BOROUGH OF JUNEAU: $2,625,550 · OtherKAWERAK INC: $2,279,097 · Other+157 more: $49,921,722 · Other+157 morePLAY N LEARN CENTER INC: $5,678,688 · Human ServicesPLAY N LEARN …Kodiak Baptist Mission: $846,968 · Human ServicesKodiak Baptis…FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES OF ALASKA: $683,462 · Human ServicesFAMILY CENTER…SKAGWAY CHILD CARE COUNCIL: $619,370 · Human ServicesSKAGWAY CHILD…ALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $601,288 · Human ServicesALASKA CHILDR…CREATIVE PLAY AND PRESCHOOLS LTD: $536,665 · Human ServicesHILLCREST CHILDRENS CENTER: $486,585 · Human ServicesBEAR VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $420,735 · Human Services+7 more: $1,354,093 · Human Services+7 moreCAMP FIRE ALASKA: $7,259,362 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE AL…SEWARD PREVENTION COALITION: $1,654,710 · Youth DevelopmentSEWARD PREVE…Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska: $1,495,617 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls…SOUTH PENINSULA HOSPITAL INC: $2,102,585 · HealthSITKA COUNSELING AND PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $914,065 · HealthFairbanks Native Association: $417,540 · HealthTANAINA CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $484,133 · EducationRabbit Creek Community Association: $423,385 · EducationFAIRBANKS MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION: $421,382 · EducationAnchorage Waldorf Education Association: $387,577 · EducationJUNEAU MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $330,984 · EducationGOLD CREEK CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $289,035 · EducationANCHORAGE COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL INC: $128,206 · EducationCHILKAT VALLEY PRE-SCHOOL: $122,552 · EducationFIRE LAKE PRESCHOOL INC: $119,520 · EducationJUNEAU COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL INC: $116,645 · EducationNome Preschool Association Inc: $109,339 · Education+2 more: $109,123 · EducationGIRDWOOD INC: $1,060,000 · Community ImprovementRURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $348,442 · Community ImprovementANCHORAGE GYMNASTICS ASSOC: $779,912 · Recreation & SportsPetersburg Medical Center: $48,580 · Public Benefit
Other$66,854,677Human Services$11,227,854Youth Development$10,409,689Health$3,434,190Education$3,041,881Community Improvement$1,408,442Recreation & Sports$779,912Public Benefit$48,580

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCAMP FIRE ALASKA: $7,259,362 over 6y, 37% of budgetPLAY N LEARN CENTER INC: $5,678,688 over 6y, 30% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANCHORAGE ALASKA: $5,610,322 over 5y, 37% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN - SOUTHEAST ALASKA: $3,178,221 over 7y, 53% of budgetKAWERAK INC: $2,279,097 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTH PENINSULA HOSPITAL INC: $2,102,585 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCCS Early Learning: $1,988,099 over 3y, 11% of budgetSEWARD PREVENTION COALITION: $1,654,710 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska: $1,495,617 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetGIRDWOOD INC: $1,060,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetOpen Arms Child Development Center: $1,006,141 over 3y, 29% of budgetSITKA COUNSELING AND PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $914,065 over 2y, 23% of budgetKodiak Baptist Mission: $846,968 over 3y, 33% of budgetAnchorage Montessori School: $804,235 over 4y, 16% of budgetANCHORAGE GYMNASTICS ASSOC: $779,912 over 3y, 21% of budgetKids Corps Inc: $697,590 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetFAMILY CENTERED SERVICES OF ALASKA: $683,462 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSKAGWAY CHILD CARE COUNCIL: $619,370 over 4y, 71% of budgetCopper River Native Association Inc: $613,060 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $601,288 over 2y, 18% of budgetRobertson Enterprises Inc: $595,642 over 4y, 23% of budgetCREATIVE PLAY AND PRESCHOOLS LTD: $536,665 over 4y, 22% of budgetHILLCREST CHILDRENS CENTER: $486,585 over 4y, 23% of budgetTANAINA CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $484,133 over 4y, 26% of budgetBETTY ELIASON CHILD CARE CENTER: $432,686 over 4y, 34% of budgetRabbit Creek Community Association: $423,385 over 4y, 34% of budgetFAIRBANKS MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION: $421,382 over 4y, 17% of budgetBEAR VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $420,735 over 4y, 34% of budgetFairbanks Native Association: $417,540 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAnchorage Waldorf Education Association: $387,577 over 4y, 29% of budgetClare Swan Early Learning Center: $367,738 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetRURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $348,442 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJUNEAU MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $330,984 over 4y, 16% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHERN ACADEMY: $314,960 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetPETERSBURG CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $302,219 over 5y, 27% of budgetGOLD CREEK CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $289,035 over 4y, 32% of budgetSHELDON JACKSON CHILD CARE CENTER: $241,289 over 4y, 26% of budgetCredit Union 1: $204,497 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetENEP'UT CHILDRENS CENTER: $203,508 over 3y, 32% of budgetBristol Bay Native Association Inc: $200,415 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLittle Bears Playhouse Inc: $178,937 over 3y, 28% of budgetEarly Learning Coalition: $161,830 over 4y, 25% of budgetANCHORAGE COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL INC: $128,206 over 4y, 37% of budgetCHILKAT VALLEY PRE-SCHOOL: $122,552 over 4y, 69% of budgetFIRE LAKE PRESCHOOL INC: $119,520 over 3y, 42% of budget3 TO 5 PRESCHOOL: $119,295 over 4y, 35% of budgetJUNEAU COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL INC: $116,645 over 4y, 48% of budgetNome Preschool Association Inc: $109,339 over 3y, 12% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Alaska Community …Rasmuson FoundationAssociation for the E…Alaska Children's Tru…United Way of Anchora…Valley Hospital Assoc…The Carr Foundation I…Alaska Native Tribal …Association of Alaska…Providence Alaska Fou…Sitka Ak Permanent Ch…Frances & David Rose …
The Alaska Community FoundationAK57.8× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    25report 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 320 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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