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Georgia Foundation for Early Care and Learning Inc

The georgia foundation for early care + learning's mission is to support access to high quality early childhood education to georgia's youngest learners and their families, providers, and teachers through established strategic investments, collaborations and partnerships to equip georgia's current and future workforce.

$584k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$841kHuman Services$26kCommunity Improvement$13kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $374,858, the rows itemized in this filing. The $584,202 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $209,344 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$232k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION$250,000
GA DEPT OF EARLY CARE & LEARNING$53,358
MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$15,000
LAURENS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$15,000
THOMASVILLE BOARD OF EDUCATION$15,000
SW GA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC$5,300
PRE-K PREPARATORY LEARNING ACADEMY INC$5,300
ACTION PACT$5,300
NINTH DISTRICT OPPORTUNITY$5,300
ENRICHMENT SERVICES PROGRAM INC$5,300
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%GEORGIA MOUNTAINS YMCA INC: $11k → 12%ENRICHMENT SERVICES PROGRAM INC: $5k → 18%SW GA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $5k → 23%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 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.

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Georgia Foundation for Early Care and Learning Inc

The georgia foundation for early care + learning's mission is to support access to high quality early childhood education to georgia's youngest learners and their families, providers, and teachers through established strategic investments,…

Education
2
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…

Education
3
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…

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4
Children's Development Academy Inc

Mission: affording all children in our community high quality early education. vision: best start. brightest future. every child.

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5
Coastal Georgia Area Community Action Authority Inc

To promote self-sufficiency and will strive to improve the quality of life of families through education, training, comprehensive services and advocacy.

Human Services
6
Csra Economic Opportunity Authority

Community action agency established to promote self-sufficiency among individuals, children, and families with low income by providing self-help opportunities through housing, employment, and other supporting services.

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7
Partnership for Children of Cumberland County Inc

The partnership's mission is to be the driving force to engage partners to achieve lasting positive outcomes for all children, beginning at birth.

Education
8
Generationed

Empowering and inspiring young children and families to build skills, resilience and confidence to fufill their vision of success.

Human Services
9
Greene Lamp

To provide services to low income families and individuals in the greene, lenoir, pitt, craven, duplin, edgecombe, martin, sampson, wayne, wilson and beaufort county areas that shall enhance their ability to become more self sufficient.

Community Improvement
10
Center for Early Success

The mission of the center for early success is to strengthen the system of individuals and organizations caring for and educating children age birth to five.

Human Services
11
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education
12
Gleamns Human Resources Commission Inc

The mission of gleamns human resources commission, inc, a community-based organization, is to deliver quality services, assistance, and opportunity to eligible customers with emphasis placed on education, employment, and developing…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Community Action Assoc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pre-K Preparatory Learning Academy. 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 17 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
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF EARLY CARE AND LEARNING: $429,355 · OtherGEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF EARLY CARE AND LEARNINGGA DEPT OF EARLY CARE & LEARNING: $64,454 · OtherGA DEPT OF EARLY CARE & LEARNING+7 more: $76,080 · Other+7 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIO…GEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC: $21,014 · EducationGEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION …+1 more: $5,300 · EducationGEORGIA MOUNTAINS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesGEORGIA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC INC: $5,300 · Human ServicesENRICHMENT SERVICES PROGRAMINC: $5,300 · Human ServicesMIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $13,200 · Community ImprovementNINTH DISTRICT OPPORTUNITY INC: $5,300 · Philanthropy
Other$569,889Education$276,314Human Services$21,100Community Improvement$13,200Philanthropy$5,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEEARS THE GEORGIA EARLY EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR READY STUDENTS INC: $21,014 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $13,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA MOUNTAINS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNINTH DISTRICT OPPORTUNITY INC: $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRE-K PREPARATORY LEARNING ACADEMY: $5,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGIA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC INC: $5,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENRICHMENT SERVICES PROGRAMINC: $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Georgia Foundation for Early Care and Learning Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Georgia Foundation for Early Care and Learning Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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