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Durham's Partnership for Children

To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.

$10M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$34MEducation$7.0MHealth$895kCrime & Legal$735k
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+11 grants · $7.6M
$140,205
Median grant
2
States reached
$489k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD & PARENT SUPPORT SERVICES$2,967,331
CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY HEALTH INC$735,184
FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY RISING INC$588,840
EARLY YEARS INC$547,959
A NEW BEGINNING II - EHS$541,922
ALL MY CHILDREN$474,104
RANDY'S FIVE STAR ACADEMY$444,954
TODDLERS ACADEMY$367,647
HEALTHY FAMILIES DURHAM$354,648
CHILDCARE NETWORK #57$307,013
DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS$303,352
CHRISTIAN PREP ACADEMY INC$235,113
PRIMARY COLORS EARLY LEARNING CENTER$215,700
GROWING LEGACY EARLY LEARNING CENTER LLC$195,687
BOOK HARVEST$188,146
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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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ALL MY CHILDREN: $474k → 11%ALL MY CHILDREN: $273k → 11%ALL MY CHILDREN: $252k → 11%ALL MY CHILDREN: $215k → 11%ALL MY CHILDREN: $147k → 11%ALL MY CHILDREN: $93k → 11%CHILDCARE NETWORK #57: $328k → 11%CHILDCARE NETWORK #57: $307k → 11%CHILDCARE NETWORK #57: $59k → 11%CHILDCARE NETWORK #57: $320k → 11%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42M · 33 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
6

Total granted

$42M
$1.0M

Still filing today

27%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • EY
    EARLY YEARS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $13M · revenue +18%
  • Center for Child and Family Health Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +3%
  • FA
    FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • ES
    EARLY START ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $283k
  • LC
    LINKING CONNECTIONS LEARNING CENTER LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $263k
  • EC
    Exchange Club Child Abuse
    one grant, 2021 · $208k
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
Nek Community Growth Center

Education of childcare workers

Education
2
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…

Education
3
Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of North Carolina Inc

The parenting path works to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect by strengthening families, enhancing parent/child relationships and creating safer, more stable communities.

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4
Child Care Council of Nassau Inc

The Child Care Council of Nassau envisions a future where every family in Nassau County can access high quality early learning. we empower familes with resources to make informed child care choices, strenghen the early childhood educator…

Human Services
5
Educational Child Care Center

Educational child care center (ec3) provides developmentally appropriate child care in a nurturing environment that promotes growth of the whole child while responding to the needs of the family.

Human Services
6
Del Norte Child Care Council

To provide education and support services that promote and encourage quality care, education, healthy growth and development of all children and families in del norte county

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7
Durham's Partnership for Children

To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.

Education
8
Family Development Center

To provide a comprehensive therapeutic early childhood and strength-based family education programs, committed to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, so that children may grow and develop to their full potential.

Human Services
9
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
10
North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children

Ncaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. we advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on…

—
11
Manchester Early Learning Center

Child day care. the organization provides childcare services for children ages 3-12 years. each program complies with the state of connecticut licensing requirements which requires that each program be staffed by qualified teachers and…

Human Services
12
Child Care Council of Dutchess and Putnam Inc

To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families and Communities Rising Inc; the most unlike its peers is Triangle Day Care 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

12 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. 12 of the 46 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EARLY YEARS INC: $12,880,704 · OtherEARLY YEARS INCCHILD & PARENT SUPPORT SERVICES: $6,109,018 · OtherCHILD & PARENT SUPPORT SERVICESRANDY'S FIVE STAR ACADEMY: $1,292,942 · OtherASKORP INC: $1,111,730 · Other+33 more: $9,481,027 · Other+33 moreCenter for Child and Family Health Inc: $2,712,053 · Crime & LegalCenter for…The Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center: $923,598 · Crime & LegalThe Exchan…EXCHANGE CLUB'S FAMILY CENTER IN ALAMANCE COUNTY: $338,940 · Crime & LegalEXCHANGE C…FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC: $2,647,779 · PhilanthropyALL MY CHILDREN DAYCARE & NURSERY SCHOOL: $1,454,282 · Human ServicesThe Childcare Network: $1,014,176 · Human ServicesDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,298,424 · EducationBOOK HARVEST: $760,699 · EducationTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,009,078 · Health
Other$30,875,421Crime & Legal$3,974,591Philanthropy$2,647,779Human Services$2,468,458Education$2,059,123Health$1,009,078

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEARLY YEARS INC: $12,880,704 over 5y, 11% of budgetCenter for Child and Family Health Inc: $2,712,053 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC: $2,647,779 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetALL MY CHILDREN DAYCARE & NURSERY SCHOOL: $1,454,282 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,298,424 over 4y, 31% of budgetThe Childcare Network: $1,014,176 over 4y, 42% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,009,078 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center: $923,598 over 4y, 20% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $760,699 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB'S FAMILY CENTER IN ALAMANCE COUNTY: $338,940 over 2y, 27% 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 EARLY YEARS INC ↗
  • Who funds Center for Child and Family Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL MY CHILDREN DAYCARE & NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Childcare Network ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center ↗
  • Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB'S FAMILY CENTER IN ALAMANCE COUNTY ↗

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.

Early Years IncNC42.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Early Years Inc · Duke University · The Forest At Duke Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Childtrust Foundation · Wake County Smart Start Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Durham's Partnership for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Durham's Partnership for Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    6report 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 46 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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