How much does Early Years Inc give?

Early Years Inc reported 103 itemized grants totaling $11,528,482, out of $28,495,335 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 93 and 117 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Early Years Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (69%), Education (21%), Food & Nutrition (7%).

Who are Early Years Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Childcare Network Inc ($6.0M), Askorp Inc ($5.6M), Southwestern Child Development Commission Inc ($3.8M).

Does Early Years Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Early Years Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Durham's Partnership for Children, Orange County Partnership for Young Children, Wake County Smart Start Inc.

Where is Early Years Inc based?

Early Years Inc is based in NC.

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North Carolina · 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. Early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and education at the local, state and national levels. Early years is one of the managing agencies for the nc…

$28M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 103
Itemized grants FY2025: 108
Organizations funded FY2024: 16%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $12M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $27,857
Largest grant, FY2025: $684,113
Organizations funded a year: 93 to 117; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Early Years Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $459k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	102	$12M	13%
FY2024	108	$11M	16%
FY2023	104	$10M	12%
FY2022	101	$9.5M	13%
FY2021	111	$9.3M	14%
FY2020	117	$9.9M	28%
FY2019	93	$7.1M	20%
FY2018	98	$5.9M	14%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$55MEducation$17MFood & Nutrition$5.4MPhilanthropy$955kPublic Benefit$847kCommunity Improvement$418kHealth$381kYouth Development$174kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Childcare Network Inc	$5,985,931	9	n/a
Askorp Inc	$5,575,917	9	n/a
Southwestern Child Development Commission Inc	$3,783,080	9	5%
Martin Pitt Partnership for Children Inc	$3,572,994	9	21%
Child Care Resources Inc	$3,568,486	8	3%
Southeastern Community College	$3,462,673	9	n/a
Durham Public Schools	$3,192,467	7	n/a
Bryson Christian Montessori	$2,393,233	9	n/a
Families and Communities Rising Inc	$2,277,249	8	3%
White Rock Baptist Church	$2,067,971	9	n/a

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All grantees of Early Years Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Childcare Network Inc	$5,985,931	9	n/a
Askorp Inc	$5,575,917	9	n/a
Southwestern Child Development Commission Inc	$3,783,080	9	5%
Martin Pitt Partnership for Children Inc	$3,572,994	9	21%
Child Care Resources Inc	$3,568,486	8	3%
Southeastern Community College	$3,462,673	9	n/a
Durham Public Schools	$3,192,467	7	n/a
Bryson Christian Montessori	$2,393,233	9	n/a
Families and Communities Rising Inc	$2,277,249	8	3%
White Rock Baptist Church	$2,067,971	9	n/a
Beautiful Beginnings Child Care Center	$2,045,374	9	n/a
Down East Partnership for Children	$2,005,826	9	4%
Albemarle Alliance for Children and Families Inc	$1,975,538	9	10%
Children's Campus Southpoint	$1,775,758	9	n/a
Christian Prep Academy Inc	$1,627,945	9	n/a
Randy's Five Star Academy	$1,589,795	5	n/a
Creative Schools Inc	$1,531,780	9	n/a
Anb Early Care & Education LLC	$1,377,356	5	n/a
Gurukul LLC	$1,219,056	9	n/a
Pattie G Brown Enterprises	$1,166,227	9	n/a
Childcare Network #57	$1,121,987	2	n/a
Yates Baptist Child Development Center	$1,021,110	7	n/a
Early Start Academy	$979,891	9	n/a
Little People Day Care Center Inc	$908,719	5	n/a
All My Children Family Resource Ctr	$783,191	6	17%
First Presbyterian Day School	$716,682	9	19%
Permo Corporation Dba Kids R Kids Rtp	$698,129	9	n/a
Treasures of Joy Inc	$661,052	9	n/a
Toddlers Academy	$661,039	9	n/a
Stith Lorraine J	$647,756	5	n/a
Mack-Reed Yolanda	$621,527	9	n/a
Davlor Enterprise LLC Dba Kiddie Kollege Elc	$590,288	3	n/a
Growing Legacy Early Learning Center LLC	$587,431	4	n/a
First Chronicles Community Church	$518,482	6	n/a
Spanish for Fun	$507,261	9	n/a
Rolesville Child Development Inc	$505,303	7	n/a
Lakewood Community Preschool	$480,108	9	n/a
Durham's Partnership for Children	$469,138	6	1%
Early Years Inc	$437,846	1	2%
Children's Council of Watauga County Inc	$414,660	4	n/a
Triangle Day Care Center	$410,840	4	n/a
Randolph County Partnership for Children Inc	$404,073	4	5%
Legacy Academy Chapel Hill	$395,425	9	n/a
Work Family Resource Center Inc Dba Child Care Resource Center	$376,810	4	13%
Abundant Love Christian Family Daycare	$375,695	9	n/a
The Chapel Hill Kehillah	$344,541	9	n/a
Darnella Warthen	$341,363	4	n/a
Jumping Jacks Academy	$313,776	7	n/a
Mount Zion Christian Church Incorporated	$310,164	5	n/a
Linking Connections Learning Center LLC	$306,864	6	n/a
Butterfly Kisses Academy	$282,474	9	n/a
Bright Horizons Childrens Centers LLC Dba Discovery Preschoo	$273,554	8	n/a
7 Hills Learning LLC	$270,298	9	n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$264,533	8	n/a
All My Children Child Care Center	$261,896	9	n/a
Kuehg Corp Dba Kindercare Education LLC	$246,424	6	n/a
Bambino's Playschool	$237,571	5	n/a
Future Scholars Childcare and Development Center	$225,803	8	n/a
Childworks Preschool Inc	$225,649	6	n/a
Little Believers Academy II	$218,519	5	n/a
Community School for People Under Six	$218,472	9	n/a
Little Treasures	$215,523	8	n/a
New Life Christian Center Inc	$212,582	4	n/a
Cape Fear Community College	$209,795	5	n/a
Vidyalaya LLC	$208,404	4	n/a
La Petite Academy	$208,240	8	n/a
Tripathi Learning LLC Dba the Goddard School	$201,968	6	n/a
McClammy - Kids Academy LLC	$201,443	9	n/a
McNair Carolyn Cameron	$177,010	7	n/a
Lamb Kids of Rtp	$171,364	2	n/a
Victory Village Day Care Center Inc	$162,013	5	2%
Smiling Faces Child Care Center	$161,671	5	n/a
Learning Tots Academy Inc	$154,109	3	n/a
Sugar N Spice Preschool Ccc Inc	$150,134	4	n/a
Childrens Campus of Chapel Hill	$136,679	7	n/a
Follow the Son Child Care Center Inc	$134,040	3	n/a
Serenity Child Care Center	$123,875	4	n/a
Bright Beginnings	$118,242	4	n/a
University of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv	$114,539	1	n/a
Westminister Schools Inc	$110,795	6	n/a
Alphabet Soup	$109,294	5	n/a
Learning Tots Academy of Apex	$108,624	4	n/a
Victorous Day Care & Preschool Academy	$107,552	5	n/a
Pbla Inc	$106,849	1	n/a
Little Town Learning Center Inc	$104,261	4	n/a
Radaker Tabatha Hart	$102,637	4	n/a
Chapel Hill Cooperative Preschool	$100,460	5	2%
McNair Alicia D	$98,388	8	n/a
Teach a Lot Inc	$95,322	5	n/a
Bambino's Playshcool	$94,925	5	n/a
Chapel Hill Day Care Center Inc	$94,461	6	2%
Spanish for Fun Inc	$94,284	6	n/a
Deberry Lolita K	$92,487	6	n/a
Cognitive Niche Inc	$92,094	4	n/a
Franklin Granville Vance Smart Start Inc	$90,182	3	n/a
Tendercare Learning Center	$89,545	5	n/a
Apple Learning	$86,278	3	n/a
D&S Brannon Enterprises LLC	$84,446	5	n/a
Childcare Matters Inc	$84,446	5	4%
Kindercare Learning Centers LLC	$81,875	3	n/a
Ginger Bread Child Development Center	$76,931	5	n/a
Alamance Partnership for Children Inc	$76,129	3	n/a
Nurturing Family Child Care Too	$75,812	5	n/a
Carrboro United Methodist Child Care Center	$73,665	4	n/a
Harvest Learning Center	$71,791	5	n/a
The Little School at Duke	$69,883	2	n/a
Sounds and Colors 004 LLC	$62,393	4	n/a
Sounds and Colors LLC	$58,876	4	n/a
Robinson Barbara O	$56,464	8	n/a
Mi Escuelita Inc	$56,381	4	4%
Treasurable Moments Early Learning Program	$55,903	4	n/a
Create Great Minds LLC	$55,879	5	n/a
Premier Nc Clayton LLC	$53,590	5	n/a
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	$53,488	1	n/a
Worley Taryn Dba Everything New Child Care	$52,526	2	n/a
The Playhouse	$52,464	2	n/a
Johnson James A	$51,546	3	n/a
Childworks Preschool	$51,265	3	n/a
The Hedrick Child Care Center Inc	$51,035	3	n/a
Little Wonders Child Care Services LLC	$50,766	4	n/a
Anderson Leslie	$50,000	1	n/a
Totsland Preschool	$49,607	1	30%
Cariello Family Group	$48,416	3	n/a
Learning and Beyond LLC	$48,017	5	n/a
Millivan Associates Inc	$47,876	4	n/a
Little Engine Academy Bragtown	$47,711	4	n/a
Texas Association for the Education of Young Children	$45,000	1	3%
Asbury Preschool	$44,302	3	n/a
Kidds Place	$43,619	4	n/a
Big Blue Marble LLC	$43,053	2	n/a
Tiny Steps-Pasitos	$42,833	2	n/a
Weaver Dairy Community	$41,755	4	n/a
Presleybrooke Academy Inc	$40,966	2	n/a
Peak Performance Child Care Inc	$40,280	4	n/a
Cariello Family Education Inc	$39,929	3	n/a
D&A Apex LLC	$38,814	2	n/a
Arteaga Beatriz Eugenia	$38,610	6	n/a
Nevada Association for the Education of Young Children	$37,500	1	6%
Ltm Child Care Services Inc Dba Kiddie Academy-Morrisville	$37,205	2	n/a
Kearney Teresa	$37,037	6	n/a
Smart Kids	$36,729	3	n/a
Surya Learning LLC	$36,644	2	n/a
Coffin Cynthia Dba Cynthias Little People Daycare	$35,619	2	n/a
Casa Club Spanish Immersion Preschool	$34,902	3	n/a
The Little School	$34,834	3	n/a
21st Century Child Care Inc	$34,664	4	n/a
Blossoms Day Care LLC	$34,142	3	n/a
Truesdale Brandy	$33,189	4	n/a
Angel Care Academy Inc	$33,017	4	n/a
North Carolina Early Education Coalition	$31,500	2	n/a
Mc Clatchy Interactive	$30,306	1	n/a
Kompleks Creative Inc	$29,918	1	n/a
Knowledge Investments Inc	$29,105	1	n/a
Starting Legends Child Care LLC	$28,926	3	n/a
Greenglo Daycare Center Inc	$28,401	2	n/a
Center of Excellence Child Care	$28,255	2	n/a
Webb Danise	$27,368	3	n/a
Dispute Settlement Center Inc	$26,635	3	2%
Es North Carolina LLC Dba Cranfield Academy	$25,842	2	n/a
Delaware Association for the Education O	$25,000	2	1%
Ruby & Ryan Corp Dba Learning Experiencecary	$24,910	2	n/a
A Brilliant Beginning Daycare LLC	$24,468	2	n/a
Lillian Clinton	$23,543	3	n/a
Leake Shirley F	$22,726	4	n/a
Premier Nc Burlington LLC	$22,099	3	n/a
Faulks Roberta A	$21,196	3	n/a
Shannon Massey-Saunders	$20,981	2	n/a
Edukids Inc	$20,891	2	n/a
Person County Partnership for Children	$20,567	3	n/a
Momsrising Education Fund	$20,000	2	0%
A New Adventure LLC	$20,000	1	n/a
All Starz Cary Inc	$19,863	2	n/a
Morgan Judy	$19,237	3	n/a
The Woodcroft School Inc	$19,092	2	n/a
Heggins Telita	$18,692	2	n/a
Ans Pre K LLC	$18,433	2	n/a
Future Scholars Too LLC	$17,607	2	n/a
Afton Nature School LLC	$16,966	2	n/a
Sunshine Smiles Academy	$16,741	2	n/a
Edmonds Linda Dba Raven's Wonderland Child Care	$16,643	1	n/a
The Learning Experience	$16,495	2	n/a
Northern Angela	$16,491	2	n/a
Play St8tion Child Development Home LLC	$16,243	1	n/a
Irene's Hands Family Childcare LLC	$15,982	2	n/a
Creative Learning Enterprise	$15,457	2	n/a
Kids Educational Center IV Inc	$15,438	2	n/a
Gilfillan Yvette	$15,422	2	n/a
Robertson Alison S	$15,196	2	n/a
Little Angels Daycare	$15,143	1	n/a
Ashebridge Inc	$15,135	2	n/a
Brenda H Bell	$15,067	2	n/a
Bass-Evans Joan J	$15,043	2	n/a
The Economic Develpment Learning Center	$15,000	1	n/a
Chapel Hill - Carrboro Schools	$14,198	2	n/a
Lakewood Avenue Childrens School	$13,964	1	n/a
Estes Children's Cottage LLC	$13,686	2	n/a
Ashebridge II Inc	$13,684	2	n/a
Michelle Rivest	$13,408	1	n/a
Sohni LLC Dba the Primrose School of Cary	$13,361	1	n/a
Priester Shakeema	$13,197	1	n/a
Tiny Tots Childcare	$13,062	2	n/a
Robyns Nest Creative Learning Center	$12,597	2	n/a
Kelley Austin Kindercare	$11,983	2	n/a
Cabrera's Playschool	$11,349	2	n/a
Paradise Escapades Fcch	$11,243	1	n/a
Racial Equity Institute LLC	$11,000	1	n/a
Paramo Lina	$10,752	2	n/a
Grantham Sonya	$10,663	2	n/a
Sounds and Colors at Carpenter Village LLC	$10,640	1	n/a
All Starz Children's Academy	$10,556	1	n/a
Nikita Sanders	$10,528	2	n/a
Royster Deborah A	$10,427	2	n/a
Childtime Childcare Inc	$9,947	1	n/a
Mi Neighborhood Playhouse Too	$9,539	1	n/a
First Environments Early Learning Center	$9,497	1	0%
The Goddard School	$9,264	1	n/a
Orange Grove Missionary Baptist Church	$8,845	1	n/a
Scarborough Nursery School	$8,759	1	n/a
The Growing Years Clayton Operations II	$8,613	1	n/a
Kids Learning Center	$8,419	1	n/a
White Plains Childrens Center Inc	$7,944	1	1%
Bright and Beautiful Beginnings	$7,897	1	n/a
Robinson Doris Annette	$7,897	1	n/a
Poole Bessie A	$7,786	1	n/a
Latida Adams Simmons	$7,514	1	n/a
The Learning Garden	$7,436	1	n/a
Cas Management LLC	$7,421	1	n/a
Imagination Station Academy	$7,128	1	n/a
Ebenezer United Church of Christ	$6,800	1	n/a
Creative Minds Childcare	$6,643	1	n/a
Rodriguez Sonia	$6,217	1	n/a
Higher Calling Ministries and Child Care Inc	$6,195	1	n/a
Over the Rainbow	$5,950	1	n/a
Wells Faith a Dba Through Faith Family Child Care Home	$5,843	1	n/a
Bright Beginnings Preschool Inc	$5,652	1	n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Greensboro Inc	$5,343	1	0%
Happy Day Nursery and Day	$5,276	1	n/a
Caco	$5,246	1	n/a
Vanessa Robinson's Day Care	$5,191	1	n/a
Discovery Pre-School Ctrcoconut Creek	$5,181	1	n/a
Beginning Visions Child Development Center	$5,117	1	n/a
Follow the Son Child Care Center Inc	$5,112	1	n/a
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Fayetteville Technical Community College	$5,000	1	n/a
Lyons Den Academy	$4,023	1	n/a
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church	$4,000	1	n/a

Early Years Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 27.

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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Durham's Partnership for ChildrenNC42.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Years Inc

How much does Early Years Inc give?: Early Years Inc reported 103 itemized grants totaling $11,528,482, out of $28,495,335 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 93 and 117 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Early Years Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (69%), Education (21%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
Who are Early Years Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Childcare Network Inc ($6.0M), Askorp Inc ($5.6M), Southwestern Child Development Commission Inc ($3.8M).
Does Early Years Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Early Years Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Durham's Partnership for Children, Orange County Partnership for Young Children, Wake County Smart Start Inc.
Where is Early Years Inc based?: Early Years Inc is based in NC.