· Public charity
Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network
Child care aware of minnesota was incorporated in 1992 to provide technical assistance, training and coordination for the child care resource and referral programs throughout minnesota, to collect data regarding the supply of and demand for child care, and to create and manage statewide, child care-focused projects.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 96% of MINNESOTA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $638,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,709,547 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,071,297 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINI APPLIE INT MONTESSORI | $21,000 |
| BRIGHT START CHILD CARE CENTER INC | $21,000 |
| UNLIMITED POTENTIAL IN EDUCATION INC OPERATING AS JACK & JILL | $21,000 |
| AURORA CHILD CARE INC | $18,250 |
| OPEN ARMS LUTHERAN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $18,250 |
| ST PAUL MIDWAY YMCA EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER | $18,250 |
| NEW HORIZON ACADEMY | $18,250 |
| LOVELY CHILD CARE CENTER LLC | $18,250 |
| CLOSE TO MY HEART | $18,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,250 |
| KID ZONE CHILD CARE CENTER | $15,500 |
| YANYO CHILDCARE CENTER INC | $15,500 |
| HALLIE Q BROWN EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $15,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,500 |
| CROSS VIEW EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER | $15,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $657k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SCSUCCESS CHILD CARE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $316k
- LCLOVELY CHILD CARE CENTER LLC2× · 2020–2021 · $55k
- JCJAMA CHILD CARE LLC2× · 2020–2021 · $47k
Funded once
- NHNEW HORIZON ACADEMY CORPORATE OFFICEone grant, 2020 · $2.2M
- KLKINDERCARE LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2020 · $1.2M
- SBSTEP BY STEP MONTESSORIone grant, 2020 · $262k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Child care services and child preschool instruction
Provide christian based daycare and pre-school
Monarch Preschool offers a unique play-based learning experience for your child. Play-based, child-led education supports social and emotional development, strengthens language and numeracy skills, and inspires a life-long love of learning.
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…
Our mission is to provide quality and safe childcare for the families in our community and provide our youngest learners with a positive start to their education journey.
In 2001, Joyful Learning Educational Development Center (Joyful Learning EDC) was founded with a clear vision to provide accessible, high-quality childcare that meets the diverse needs of every child.
To improve the learning for the childrens in the community
At Wilmore Day Care Center, it is our mission to provide holistic care for your child within a loving, Christian environment. We strive to ensure a well-rounded educational experience that will encourage lifelong learning.
Giggles & grace early learning center, inc., with community, parents and teachers, is committed to providing a safe, nurturing christian environment emphasizing the total development of each child; spiritual, intellectual, emotional,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Area Child Care Center and the most unlike its peers is Lakeside Early Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 447 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Think Small · First Children's Finance · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Northland Foundation · Rochester Area Foundation · Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers · Otto Bremer Trust · The Sauer Family Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.