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Childcare Network of Evanston

A non-profit organization whose mission is connecting the youngest learners and their families to essential early learning experiences. Childcare Network of Evanston achieves this mission by offering families early education opportunities and access to community resources, providing tools and resources to positively affect relationships…

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$166,759
Largest grant, FY2025
$615,642
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Childcare Network of Evanston funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$2.0M0%
FY20247$2.0M0%
FY20238$1.8M13%
FY20227$1.6M0%
FY20217$1.6M0%
FY20207$1.5M0%
FY20197$1.7M43%
FY20184$1.0M0%
100% 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$13MEducation$653k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc$4,862,229911%
Swift Child Care$3,593,9277n/a
Reba Early Learning Center$2,929,857954%
Child Care Center of Evanston Inc$1,034,78999%
Toddler Town Day Care Inc$572,2387n/a
Puerta Abierta$430,607710%
Infant Welfare Society of Evanston Inc$355,06393%
Evanstonskokie Community Consolidated School District 65$222,2111n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.

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.

Evanston Community FoundationIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Evanston Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Childcare Network of Evanston

How much does Childcare Network of Evanston give?
Childcare Network of Evanston reported 7 grants totaling $2,024,455 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Childcare Network of Evanston fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (95%), Education (5%).
Who are Childcare Network of Evanston's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc ($4.9M), Swift Child Care ($3.6M), Reba Early Learning Center ($2.9M).
Does Childcare Network of Evanston fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Childcare Network of Evanston?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Evanston Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Childcare Network of Evanston based?
Childcare Network of Evanston is based in IL.

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 9 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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