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Children and Families First

Children & families first helps children facing adversity on their journey to adulthood.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$73k
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.7MEducation$19k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $421,306, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,283,400 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,862,094 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $348k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
$25,352
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TINY TOTS CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER$73,179
PIRULO'S CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER$45,142
DIS DAY CARE$41,808
FIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - MILFORD$35,138
LITTLE DESTINY II$34,966
FIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - LUNCH$31,895
BEVERLY'S HELPING HAND$25,352
JUNEBUGS LITTLE RUBIES LLC$25,250
NEWARK CHRISTIAN CHILD CARE$23,755
ONE STEP AHEAD CHILDCARE & PRESCHOOL$21,210
RED LION CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$18,550
LITTLE PEOPLE BIG DREAMS$18,512
KIDS KASTLE LLC$14,792
MERCYLOVE ACADEMY LLC$11,757
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHINING STARS ACADEMY LLC: $58k → 11%FIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - MILFORD: $35k → 10%BEVERLY'S HELPING HAND: $25k → 10%CACFPCHILDRENSP: $67k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $60k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $52k → 11%BEAR EARLY EDUCATION CENTER: $35k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $25k → 11%CACFPBEAREARLYE: $30k → 10%FIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - LUNCH: $32k → 10%FIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - LUNCH: $27k → 10%FIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - LUNCH: $26k → 10%FIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - LINCOLN: $25k → 10%FIRST STEPS PRE: $25k → 10%ONE STEP AHEAD CHILDCARE & PRE: $50k → 10%DIS DAY CARE: $42k → 10%CACFPONESTEPAHE: $49k → 10%LITTLE DESTINY II: $35k → 10%ONE STEP AHEAD CHILDCARE & PRESCHOOL: $49k → 10%LITTLE DESTINY II: $33k → 10%PIRULO'S CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER: $45k → 10%DIS DAY CARE: $33k → 10%PIRULO'S CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER: $45k → 10%DIS DAY CARE: $30k → 10%PIRULO'S CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER LL: $38k → 10%CACFPTINYTOTSCH: $79k → 10%LITTLE DESTINY II: $28k → 10%CACFPPIRULOSCHI: $36k → 10%TINY TOTS CHILD CARE & LEARNIN: $79k → 10%LITTLE DESTINY II: $27k → 10%PIRULO'S CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER: $32k → 10%TINY TOTS CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER: $73k → 10%JUNEBUGS LITTLE RUBIES LLC: $25k → 10%PIRULO'S CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER LL: $29k → 10%TINY TOTS CHILD CARE & LEARNING CTR: $68k → 10%LITTLE DESTINY II: $25k → 10%ONE STEP AHEAD CHILDCARE & PRESCHOOL: $27k → 10%TINY TOTS CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER: $58k → 10%CACFPLITTLEDEST: $24k → 10%TINY TOTS CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER: $57k → 10%TINY TOTS CHILD CARE & LEARNING CTR: $44k → 10%SUNSHINE KIDS ACADEMY: $35k → 10%SUNSHINE KIDS ACADEMY: $31k → 10%NEWARK CHRISTIAN CHILD CARE: $29k → 10%NEWARK CHRISTIAN CHILD CARE: $29k → 10%NEWARK CHRISTIAN CHILD CARE: $28k → 10%NEWARK CHRISTIA: $26k → 10%CACFPSUNSHINE: $24k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 20 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
4

Total granted

$2.6M
$101k

Still filing today

5%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

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

  • C
    CACFPTINYTOTSCH
    7× · 2017–2024 · $457k
  • OS
    ONE STEP AHEAD CHILDCARE & PRE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $232k
  • PC
    PIRULO'S CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER
    6× · 2018–2024 · $226k

Funded once

  • SS
    SHINING STARS ACADEMY LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $58k
  • CA
    CARE A LOT DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • B
    BROWNCHRISTINE
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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
Little Lambs Childcare Center
Human Services
2
Tlc Child Care Inc

Provide christian based daycare and pre-school

Human Services
3
Loretto Child Care Center Inc

Non-profit childcare program serving children 6 wks-12 yrs old. 24 hour service(if needed). developmental program meeting needs of children.

Human Services
4
Beggining Child Care Center

Child care services and child preschool instruction

Education
5
The Learning Ladder Child Care Ministry Inc

To provide a safe christian-based, loving and learning experience for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years of age. the care will be dedicated to helping each child reach his/her potential.

Human Services
6
Small People Child Development Center

The Small People Child Development Center is organized to provide early childhood education, care, and developmental services to infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. The organization supports working families by offering a safe,…

Human Services
7
Learn & Grow Child Care Center Inc

To provide daycare, preschool & latchkey services for low- income parents and any working parent with the ability to pay so that they may work.

Human Services
8
Life Christian Academy Inc

Life christian academy provides christian-based care and education for children ages 6 weeks to 5th grade. it is a private, christian preschool and school.

Education
9
Little Peoples Christian Daycare Inc

Little Peoples Christian Daycare/Academy is a Christ centered daycare/school providing educational programs with a Christian perspective for preschool children and children in grades PreK through high school.

Education
10
Little Imaginations Early Learning Center

Child care for teen parents and low income families

Education
11
Children's Center

Provide childcare services

Human Services
12
East Side Early Learning Center

The center provides quality care and education to children of working parents and is licensed to care for 44 children from ages 6 weeks to 5 years old.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Michael's School and Nursery Inc; the most unlike its peers is Latin American Community Center Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CACFPTINYTOTSCH: $457,183 · OtherCACFPTINYTOTSCHONE STEP AHEAD CHILDCARE & PRE: $231,617 · OtherONE STEP AHEAD CHILDCARE & PREPIRULO'S CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER: $225,702 · OtherPIRULO'S CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTERCACFPCHILDRENSP: $203,754 · OtherCACFPCHILDRENSPFIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - LUNCH: $175,144 · OtherFIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - LUNCHNEWARK CHRISTIAN CHILD CARE: $173,259 · OtherNEWARK CHRISTIAN CHILD CAREFIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - MILFORD: $143,238 · OtherFIRST STEPS PRESCHOOL - MILFORDSUNSHINE KIDS ACADEMY: $129,451 · OtherLITTLE DESTINY II: $128,684 · OtherBEAR EARLY EDUCATION CENTER: $119,911 · OtherDIS DAY CARE: $104,612 · Other+14 more: $565,685 · Other+14 moreRED LION CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC F/K/A REACH CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $38,842 · EducationLITTLE PEOPLE - BIG DREAMS: $18,512 · Education
Other$2,658,240Education$57,354

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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 RED LION CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC F/K/A REACH CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE PEOPLE - BIG DREAMS ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Children and Families First funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children and Families First. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Red Lion Christian Academy Inc F/K/a Reach Christian Schools Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY23–25
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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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