Pennsylvania · Public charity
Early Connections Inc
The organization is a leading organization in northwestern pennsylvania for quality early care and education. The organization provides direct service as well as training and planning leadership for a wide georaphic region.
- $211k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $201k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,761
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $64,908
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 14
- FY2022 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Early Connections Inc 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.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $201k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $175k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $203k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $460k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Erie | $255,840 | 4 | 1% |
| First Assembly of God | $220,558 | 4 | n/a |
| Growing and Learning Center | $142,663 | 4 | n/a |
| South Hills Child Development Center | $105,471 | 4 | n/a |
| Young Enviornment | $48,030 | 4 | n/a |
| Learning Ladder | $39,890 | 3 | n/a |
| Dr Gertrude a Barber Center Inc | $37,631 | 2 | 0% |
| Little Explorers Christian Academny | $34,421 | 1 | n/a |
| Multicultural Community Resource Center | $32,812 | 2 | 1% |
| Asha Graebs Childcare | $27,444 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Erie | $255,840 | 4 | 1% |
| First Assembly of God | $220,558 | 4 | n/a |
| Growing and Learning Center | $142,663 | 4 | n/a |
| South Hills Child Development Center | $105,471 | 4 | n/a |
| Young Enviornment | $48,030 | 4 | n/a |
| Learning Ladder | $39,890 | 3 | n/a |
| Dr Gertrude a Barber Center Inc | $37,631 | 2 | 0% |
| Little Explorers Christian Academny | $34,421 | 1 | n/a |
| Multicultural Community Resource Center | $32,812 | 2 | 1% |
| Asha Graebs Childcare | $27,444 | 2 | n/a |
| Fit Kids | $23,267 | 1 | n/a |
| Millcreek Child Dev | $20,783 | 1 | n/a |
| Barb's Care a Lot | $20,243 | 1 | n/a |
| Mt St Benedict | $15,047 | 1 | n/a |
| St Martin Center | $15,047 | 1 | 0% |
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.
Open a dossier: Northwest Institute of Research · Erie Community Foundation · United Way of Erie County · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Early Connections Inc
- How much does Early Connections Inc give?
- Early Connections Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $200,849, out of $211,202 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Early Connections Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Environment (5%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Early Connections Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Erie ($256k), First Assembly of God ($221k), Growing and Learning Center ($143k).
- Does Early Connections Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Early Connections Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Institute of Research, Erie Community Foundation, United Way of Erie County.
- Where is Early Connections Inc based?
- Early Connections Inc is based in PA.
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