· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Early Years Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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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.
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To promote each child's development by providing high quality early childhood education.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Early Years Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Early Years Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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