· Public charity
Early Learning Coalition of Alachua
The early learning coalition works to serve children ages birth to kindergarten and their parents, to provide excellent early care and education opportunities, recognize parents as teachers and meet special needs in order to assure that children are ready for school.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 73 grants below total $1,957,319 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,447,083 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,489,764 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k64 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $459k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| School Board of Alachua County | $175,559 |
| O2B Early Education Holding | $140,217 |
| University of Florida | $89,381 |
| Passage Ministries INC | $54,250 |
| Girls Place Inc | $47,220 |
| Angels Christian Academy | $45,000 |
| St Anne Early Learning Center | $44,750 |
| Elevations Learning Academy | $39,250 |
| One Room School House | $38,390 |
| Sonshine Day Preschool | $36,720 |
| Nannys Loving Arms Early Learning | $35,495 |
| The Gainesville Church | $35,480 |
| First Christian Academy | $34,720 |
| Community Praise Center | $34,000 |
| Kids Count Alachua county | $29,750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
46 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $658k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OKO2B KIDS DURBIN CREEK2× · 2020–2021 · $334k
- UOUniversity of Florida2× · 2020–2021 · $137k
- PMPASSAGE MINISTRIES2× · 2020–2021 · $105k
Funded once
- IKINTELLIGENT KIDZ ACADEMY LLCone grant, 2020 · $14k
- ALABACUS LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2020 · $14k
- YIYES I CAN KIDS ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of The Little School is to keep alive each child's natural curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, to support balanced social and academic skill development, and to foster community minded, compassionate and intrinsically…
To provide an atmosphere that will enhance social, emotional, physical and intellectual skills for children in a safe and happy environment.
Private Infant PreK and Elementary Education
School and day care facility to provide a play based early childhood experience where children are active facilitators in their own learning.
W provide a safe, supportive, caring learning environment and provide each child the opportunity of social interactions in a learning environment while providing the appropriate instruction, learning, and social activities.
To inspire each child's unique potential and desire for life-long learning through a strong academic, social and environmental curriculum.
The Children's Garden Early Learning Center is designed to meet the early care and educational needs for children ages 6 weeks through their 8th birthday. Serving up to 70 children on a full or part time basis through Early Head Start,…
Kiddie Kampus is a cooperative, play-based preschool located in Alameda for children ages 2 years 9 months to 5 years old. We work together to create a nurturing, engaging preschool environment that prepares our children for kindergarten…
The mission of the school is to provide the students of acs with quality, god-centered education; training children in the way they should go, equipping students to glorify god by being a witness for jesus christ to the world through a…
Suncoast Primary School is a registered school providing educational services from pre-K through 8th grade for all students without regard to race or creed
Structured education for preschoolers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Health Imagination Learning and Development Center and the most unlike its peers is Girls Place Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Early Learning Coalition of Alachua funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.