· Public charity
Let's Grow Kids Inc
To ensure affordable access to high-quality child care for all vermont families by 2025.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN | $166,000 |
| BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VAVT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×13 · 26% of their budget
- OCOtter Creek Child Center Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $261k · revenue +572%
- CCCHILD CARE RESOURCE6× · 2017–2022 · $234k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- BTBETH TOWB RUTLAND INCone grant, 2021 · $75k
- AAABC ACADEMY ST ALBANS LLCone grant, 2021 · $75k
- TTTURN TO JOY LLCone grant, 2020 · $74k
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.
Education of childcare workers
Mountain Tots preschool provides high quality early learning enrichment programs that enhances educational, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development as well as Kindergarten-readiness. We provide preschool and childcare…
Daycare services
Northeast kingdom preschool and childcare provides safe, affordable, high-quality early childhood education and care for the lyndonville, vt and surrounding communities. families are encouraged to be ambassadors of the program in support…
Watch Them Grow Children's Center's mission is to provide the highest quality care at an affordable rate for the families in our community. We strive to offer as many educational opportunities as possible for the early childhood and school…
Preschool child care
The general philosophy of Northpoint Cooperative Preschool is that we all learn together - adults and children alike. Guided by our qualified, caring, and endlessly imaginative teachers, co-op parents create an environment of learning and…
The learning center provides accessible, affordable and flexible childcare and preschool services for the androscoggin valley area.
A PreK childcare center and KG-Grade 8 school that values each students unique learning experience, fostering academic excellence, emotional intelligence, and social and environmental justice through five core concepts trust, sharing,…
Little Beginnings provides pre kindergarten and day care to children under 6 years of age. We believe that learning and playing are synonymous for the preschool age child. Young children learn best when they have an opportunity to practice…
To offer a variety of year round (closed in august), full or part day programs for children 2 to 5 years old.
Child care and preschool provider
How this is measured
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 198 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
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 VT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Otter Creek Child Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Orange County Parent Child Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Alburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated ↗
- Who funds UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Rutland County Parent Child Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds NECK OF THE WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MENTOR Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cabot Community Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMSINC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Vt Association for the Education of Young Children · First Children's Finance Group · Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council · First Children's Finance · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Seventh Generation Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund · Vermont Foodbank · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Let's Grow Kids Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Let's Grow Kids Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rutland Community Programsinc: 94% of income from government
- Northeast Kingdom Learning Services Inc: 86% of income from government
- Capstone Community Action Inc: 84% of income from government
- Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc: 83% of income from government
- Arlington Area Childcare Inc: 78% of income from government
- Myers Prouty Children's Campuses Inc: 78% of income from government
- Umbrella of St Johnsbury Inc: 76% of income from government
- Village Early Learning Center: 68% of income from government
- Garland School Inc: 66% of income from government
- Orange County Parent Child Center Inc: 63% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Preschool: 60% of income from government
- Mentor Vermont Inc: 58% of income from government
- Early Learning Center Inc: 55% of income from government
- Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc: 54% of income from government
- Springfield Area Parent Child Center: 53% of income from government
- Robins Nest Children's Center: 51% of income from government
- Rutland County Parent Child Center Inc: 50% of income from government
- Sunrise Family Resource Center Inc: 46% of income from government
- Child Care Resource: 43% of income from government
- Beaver Brook Children's School Inc: 43% of income from government
- Creative Preschool Inc: 42% of income from government
- West River Montessori School: 41% of income from government
- Craftsbury Saplings Inc: 40% of income from government
- Northshire Day School: 39% of income from government
- Magic Mountain Childrens Center Inc: 38% of income from government
- Lamoille Family Center Inc: 36% of income from government
- Green Mountain Economic Development Corp: 34% of income from government
- Otter Creek Child Center Inc: 32% of income from government
- Caring Community Preschool: 31% of income from government
- Montessori School of Central Vt Inc: 31% of income from government
- Vermont Achievement Center Inc: 31% of income from government
- Nek Little Ones Corp: 30% of income from government
- Neck of the Woods Inc: 26% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc: 23% of income from government
- Ascension Childcare Inc: 20% of income from government
- Toddlers Morning Out: 18% of income from government
- Vermont Community Loan Fund: 14% of income from government
- Treehouse Childrens School Inc: 11% of income from government
- Orchard Valley Waldorf School Inc: 10% of income from government
- North Branch Nature Center Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Grammar School Inc: 4% of income from government
- Vt-Hec Inc: 1% of income from government
- Southwestern Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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