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Early Care and Learning Inc

The primary purpose of ECAL Inc. is to strengthen the quality of early learning programs for young children that increase their social, emotional and academic readiness for future learning. ECAL Inc. established Caring Communities: Birth to 3 in 2008 to transform program philosophy and practice in early education settings for infants and…

$488k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$76,182
Largest grant, FY2025
$121,497
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$34k

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Columbus Early Learning Centers$121,4971n/a
Future Scholar Learning Academy II$112,0001n/a
Little Miracles Early Development Center$76,6311n/a
Chosen Kids Learning Center LLC$76,1821n/a
Ayeisha Prewitt-Swanson$59,7581n/a
Ncbc Human Services Corporation$18,9001n/a
Columbus Montessori Education Center$15,75010%
Our Kidz Enrichment and Child Care Center Inc$7,3501n/a

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.

Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral AssociationOH19.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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Find your warmest path to Early Care and Learning Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Early Care and Learning Inc

How much does Early Care and Learning Inc give?
Early Care and Learning Inc reported 8 grants totaling $488,067 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Early Care and Learning Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (95%), Human Services (4%), Youth Development (2%).
Who are Early Care and Learning Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Columbus Early Learning Centers ($121k), Future Scholar Learning Academy II ($112k), Little Miracles Early Development Center ($77k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Early Care and Learning Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association, Action for Children.
Where is Early Care and Learning Inc based?
Early Care and Learning Inc is based in OH.

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 8 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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