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First Up

We empower and equip early childhood professionals, families, and other adults influential in young children's lives through training, coaching and advocating to positively impact educational and developmental outcomes for young children.

$141k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$618kEmployment$6k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $6,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $141,116 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $135,116 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hasan's Interactive Learning Center$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $294k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $39k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $35k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $10k → 22%THE CARING CENTER: $40k → 22%THE CARING CENTER: $20k → 22%METHODIST SERVICES: $9k → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC - CHILDREN'S VILLAGE CHILD CARE: $40k → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC - CHILDREN'S VILLAGE CHILD CARE: $36k → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE CHILD CARE: $35k → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE CHILD CARE: $30k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$431k · 5 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$431k
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CV
    Children's Village Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $141k · revenue +36%
  • GH
    GREATER HOPE MINISTRIES
    2× · 2021–2023 · $105k · revenue +52%
  • FD
    FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES
    3× · 2021–2023 · $84k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • HM
    HIGHWAY MISSION TABERNACLE
    one grant, 2021 · $42k
  • X
    XIENTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +29%
  • KC
    KOREAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -18%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Children's Community Development Center Incorporated

Ccdc's mission is to provide the highest quality educational childcare services to families with children from infancy through their preschool years.

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2
Childrens Garden Early Learning Center Inc

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,…

Human Services
3
Child Development Center
Human Services
4
The Kessler School

Private Infant PreK and Elementary Education

Education
5
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.

Human Services
6
Child Care Center of the Common Ground Foundation

Provide child care services to the community for children ages 16 weeks to 12 years.

Human Services
7
Franconia Children's Center Inc

The mission of the franconia children's center is to provide a quality, developmentally appropriate preschool and child care experience for children of all race, age 6 weeks to 12 years, offering an enriching, intellectual, social and…

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8
Child Development Centers Inc

Child development centers, inc. (cdc) is a 54-year-old non-profit organization that provides child care and early childhood education for more than 1,800 children at 15 sites in venango, crawford, and erie counties, in northwestern…

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9
Concerned Citizens Child Care Inc

Programs to benefit proper development of children including operation of child day care center.

Human Services
10
Community Care and Learning Center

Community care and learning center strives to provide accessible, qualaity child care that supports parents' ability to maintain stable employment while knowing their children are in a safe, nurturing, and enriching environment.

Human Services
11
Carriage House Children's Center Inc

The primary purpose of the organization is to provide structured day care programs for pre-school children. the organization is dedicated to the nurturing, care and education of infants, toddlers, and pre-school children. the center owns…

Human Services
12
Denton City-County Day School

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Village Inc; the most unlike its peers is Greater Hope Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Village Inc: $141,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Village IncFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $83,500 · Human ServicesFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY L…THE CARING CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARING CENTER+1 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesHIGHWAY MISSION TABERNACLE: $42,250 · OtherHIGHWAY MISSION TABERNACLEWonderspring: $41,000 · OtherWonderspringKOREAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTER: $40,000 · OtherKOREAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT S…CHILDREN'S PLAYHOUSE EARLY LEARNING: $18,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S PLAYHOUSE EARLY LEA…WESCOTT'S FOV CHILD CARE CENTER: $7,000 · OtherHasan's Interactive Learning Center: $6,000 · Other+3 more: $15,300 · Other+3 moreGREATER HOPE MINISTRIES: $105,000 · ReligionGREATER HOPE MINIST…XIENTE: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $15,500 · Education
Human Services$293,500Other$169,550Religion$105,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Education$15,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Village Inc: $141,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER HOPE MINISTRIES: $105,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $83,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CARING CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWonderspring: $41,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetXIENTE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $15,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMETHODIST SERVICES: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Reinvestment Fund…United Way of Greater…The Philadelphia Foun…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Reinvestment Fund IncPA31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Reinvestment Fund Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization First Up funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Up. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $60k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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