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Early Childhood Resource Center

The ECRC promotes the healthy development of young children by strengthening families, improving the quality of early learning experiences, increasing school and community readiness, and informing public policy. This is done through a variety of parent education programs, family and children's programming, and professional development…

$713k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$356k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$24,807
Largest grant, FY2024
$81,736
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Early Childhood Resource Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving12$356k0%
FY202313$623k0%
FY202213$712k0%
FY202113$353k85%
FY20177$136kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$414kEducation$361kHealth$237kCommunity Improvement$17kPhilanthropy$17k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Connections of Northeast Ohio$456,01449%
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio$242,43540%
Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority Community Action Network$224,9624n/a
The Homeless Families Foundation$188,91441%
Early Childhood Education Alliance$184,990418%
Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc$177,654436%
Action for Children$143,67841%
The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio$125,33450%
Wellspring$93,29444%
Fairless Local Schools$77,0364n/a
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All grantees of Early Childhood Resource Center by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Connections of Northeast Ohio$456,01449%
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio$242,43540%
Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority Community Action Network$224,9624n/a
The Homeless Families Foundation$188,91441%
Early Childhood Education Alliance$184,990418%
Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc$177,654436%
Action for Children$143,67841%
The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio$125,33450%
Wellspring$93,29444%
Fairless Local Schools$77,0364n/a
New Miami School District$60,9684n/a
Appleseed Community Mental Health Center Inc$59,73540%
Future Ready Five$37,91212%
Ahead Inc$31,28848%
Greenleaf Family Center$22,30111%
Catholic Charities Corporation$19,62510%
Greater Ottawa County United Way$16,66711%
Ross County Community Action Commission$16,66710%

Where it is load-bearing

Early Childhood Resource Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily Connections of Northeast Ohio: $456,014 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio: $242,435 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Homeless Families Foundation: $188,914 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEarly Childhood Education Alliance: $184,990 over 4y, 18% of budgetNationwide Children's Hospital Inc: $177,654 over 4y, 36% of budgetAction for Children: $143,678 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $125,334 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWellspring: $93,294 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetAppleseed Community Mental Health Center Inc: $59,735 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFuture Ready Five: $37,912 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAhead Inc: $31,288 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetGreenleaf Family Center: $22,301 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCatholic Charities Corporation: $19,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Ottawa County United Way: $16,667 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRoss County Community Action Commission: $16,667 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

American Electric Power FoundationDE15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Electric Power Foundation · Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio · Columbus Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Early Childhood Resource Center

How much does Early Childhood Resource Center give?
Early Childhood Resource Center reported 12 itemized grants totaling $355,567, out of $712,992 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Early Childhood Resource Center fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Education (17%).
Who are Early Childhood Resource Center's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Family Connections of Northeast Ohio ($456k), Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio ($242k), Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority Community Action Network ($225k).
Does Early Childhood Resource Center fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Early Childhood Resource Center?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Electric Power Foundation, Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, Columbus Foundation.
Where is Early Childhood Resource Center based?
Early Childhood Resource Center 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 18 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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