· Public charity
Early Years Inc
Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of EARLY YEARS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 103 grants below total $11,528,482 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,495,335 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,966,853 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+19 grants · $8.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS DBA HILLANDALE ELEM PREK | $684,113 |
| ASKORP INC DBA PRIMARY COLORS EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $605,521 |
| CHILDCARE NETWORK #57 | $569,052 |
| FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC DBA LEATHERS MEACHEM HEADSTART | $557,717 |
| PERMO CORPORATION DBA KIDS R KIDS RTP | $545,882 |
| CHILDREN'S CAMPUS SOUTHPOINT | $524,345 |
| MARTIN-PITT PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $457,502 |
| SOUTHWESTERN CHILD DEV COM | $438,831 |
| ANB EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION LLC | $437,529 |
| CHILD CARE RESOURCES INC | $422,405 |
| RANDYS FIVE STAR ACADEMY INC | $421,287 |
| WHITE ROCK CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $366,461 |
| SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $365,369 |
| ALBEMARLE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $341,049 |
| CREATIVE SCHOOLS INC | $309,011 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Early Years Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
188 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2025, 99 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k 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
- MPMARTIN PITT PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +18%
- FAFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC8× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +18%
DOWN EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +16%
Funded once
- EYEARLY YEARS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $438k · revenue +92%
- UOUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Servone grant, 2017 · $115k
- PIPBLA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $107k · revenue +155%
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 partnership's mission is to be the driving force to engage partners to achieve lasting positive outcomes for all children, beginning at birth.
When they have challenges, we connect all children and their families to programs and resources that provide opportunities and hope.
The Guilford County Partnership for Children is a local non-profit strategically directing Smart Start and NC Pre-K funding to ensure equitable access to high quality childcare, professional development for early childhood educators and…
Education of childcare workers
Denton City County Day School provides quality, affordable childcareto families in Denton County. Our mission is to provide qualitypre-kindergarten education and loving care to children ages 2 through 5 years. Our vision is that all DCCDS…
The Small People Child Development Center is organized to provide early childhood education, care, and developmental services to infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. The organization supports working families by offering a safe,…
To provide quality child care for working parents in Western North Carolina.
For the future health and vitality of Surry County, the mission of the Surry County Early Childhood Partnership is to take action on behalf of the people of Surry County to support children 0 to 5 and their families through partnerships…
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…
Early learning centers sponsored by employers provide care for a diverse group of children six weeks to four years old near parents workplace
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…
To promote each child's development by providing high quality early childhood education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pbla Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 246 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN CHILD DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN PITT PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALL MY CHILDREN FAMILY RESOURCE CTR ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds EARLY YEARS INC ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Durham's Partnership for Children · Orange County Partnership for Young Children · Wake County Smart Start Inc · Chatham County Partnership for Children · North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc · Early Learning Coalition of Broward County Inc · Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Inc · Smart Start of Forsyth County · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Select Cobb Inc · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Hillsborough County School Readiness Coalition Inc
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 Years Inc 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 or a single department — 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.