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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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2021
40
Itemized grants FY2021
39
Organizations funded FY2021
38%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$638k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$15,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$21,000
Organizations funded a year
39 to 432
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$8.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 38% of the organizations Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202139$638k38%
FY2020432$18Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Public Safety & Disaster$9.2MHuman Services$7.8MEducation$1.1MYouth Development$59kAnimals$20kFood & Nutrition$18kReligion$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Success Child Care Inc$315,5002n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of the North$127,75010%
Hastings Child Development Center$63,0001n/a
Kid's Haven Child Care and Preschool$63,0001n/a
Jr's Academy LLC$60,2501n/a
Smart Start Childcare & Learning Center$54,7501n/a
Lakeside Early Learning$54,7501n/a
Lovely Child Care Center LLC$54,7502n/a
Good News Childrens Center Inc$54,75014%
Compass Child Care$54,7501n/a
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All grantees of Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Success Child Care Inc$315,5002n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of the North$127,75010%
Hastings Child Development Center$63,0001n/a
Kid's Haven Child Care and Preschool$63,0001n/a
Jr's Academy LLC$60,2501n/a
Smart Start Childcare & Learning Center$54,7501n/a
Lakeside Early Learning$54,7501n/a
Lovely Child Care Center LLC$54,7502n/a
Good News Childrens Center Inc$54,75014%
Compass Child Care$54,7501n/a
Miniapple International Montessori School Inc$54,7501n/a
Cedar Riverside Child Care Center$46,5001n/a
Sunshine Station Childcare and Preschool$46,5001n/a
Happy Time Day Care Center$46,50016%
MetroKids Daycare Center$46,5001n/a
Rainbow Child Development Inc$46,5001n/a
Listos Preschool & Childcare$46,5001n/a
Blooming Kids Child Care Center Inc$46,5002n/a
Sunrise Child Care Center$46,5001n/a
Civic League Day Nursery$46,50014%
Thrive Family Resource Center$46,50015%
Little Hearts Preschool & Childcare$44,50018%
Bright Start Child Care Center Inc$42,0002n/a
Community Child Care Center Inc$38,25024%
Kids Center St Paul Ltd$38,2502n/a
Bernie's Montessori School$38,2501n/a
St Croix Kids$38,250110%
Lake Harriet Montessori Inc$38,250110%
Kids-R-It Incorporated$36,50015%
Under the Rainbow Early Education Center$36,50013%
Especially for Children Inc$36,5001n/a
Saint Peter Community Childcare Center$36,50015%
Next Best Thing to Mom$31,0001n/a
The Childrens Place$31,000118%
Atrebla Early Learning Center$31,0001n/a
Cedar Child Care Center$31,0001n/a
A Child's Delight Too Inc$31,00016%
We Care Day Care Inc$31,00018%
Little Sprouts Learning Center Inc Wersal$25,5001n/a
Hibbing Parents Nursery School Inc$25,500113%
Hazel Park Learning Center$24,50027%
Kiddy Karousel Day Care Center$21,00012%
Boys & Girls Club of the Bemidji Area$21,00012%
Room For Growing$18,2501n/a
Plymouth Academy$18,2501n/a
Iron Range Learning & Development Center Dba Apple Tree Learning Center$18,2501n/a
Wee Pals Child Care Center Inc$18,25012%
Close To My Heart$18,25012%
Tracy Kids World$17,25016%
Montessori Renaissance Academy$17,25012%
Westonka School Age Kids Core Inc$15,50015%
Baby's Space a Place to Grow$15,50011%
Metro Learning Center Inc$15,5001n/a
Choo Choo Montessori LLC$15,5001n/a
Pemberton Academic Learning Service$15,50017%
Mustard Seed Kids$15,50014%
Morris Area Child Care Center$15,50014%
Kid Zone Child Care Center$15,50011%
Preschool Place$15,5001n/a
Hallie Q Brown Community Center Inc$15,50011%
Kickstart Preschool LLC$15,5001n/a
Red Cottage Montessori School$14,50014%
Highland Park Montessori School Inc$14,50013%
Laker Prep Preschool LLC$12,7501n/a
Early Steps Learning Foundation$12,75015%
Mississippi Valley Montessori School Inc$11,75014%
Pine Children's Early Learning Center LLC$11,7501n/a
Butterfly Hill Nature Preschool Inc$11,75014%
Sunshine Preschool Inc$7,2501n/a
Lincoln Park Children and Families Collaborative$5,50011%
Emanuel Lutheran Church$5,5001n/a
Parenting Resource Center Inc$5,50010%

Plus 375 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the North: $127,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGood News Childrens Center Inc: $54,750 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetHappy Time Day Care Center: $46,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCivic League Day Nursery: $46,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThrive Family Resource Center: $46,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLittle Hearts Preschool & Childcare: $44,500 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCommunity Child Care Center Inc: $38,250 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSt Croix Kids: $38,250 over 1y, 10% of budgetLake Harriet Montessori Inc: $38,250 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetKids-R-It Incorporated: $36,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUnder the Rainbow Early Education Center: $36,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSaint Peter Community Childcare Center: $36,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetThe Childrens Place: $31,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetA Child's Delight Too Inc: $31,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetWe Care Day Care Inc: $31,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetHibbing Parents Nursery School Inc: $25,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetHazel Park Learning Center: $24,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetKiddy Karousel Day Care Center: $21,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of the Bemidji Area: $21,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWee Pals Child Care Center Inc: $18,250 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetClose To My Heart: $18,250 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTracy Kids World: $17,250 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMontessori Renaissance Academy: $17,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWestonka School Age Kids Core Inc: $15,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBaby's Space a Place to Grow: $15,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPemberton Academic Learning Service: $15,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMustard Seed Kids: $15,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMorris Area Child Care Center: $15,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetKid Zone Child Care Center: $15,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHallie Q Brown Community Center Inc: $15,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRed Cottage Montessori School: $14,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHighland Park Montessori School Inc: $14,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEarly Steps Learning Foundation: $12,750 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMississippi Valley Montessori School Inc: $11,750 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetButterfly Hill Nature Preschool Inc: $11,750 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLincoln Park Children and Families Collaborative: $5,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetParenting Resource Center Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

Think SmallMN72.7× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network

How much does Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network give?
Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network reported 40 itemized grants totaling $638,250, out of $2,709,547 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 432 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (51%), Human Services (43%), Education (6%).
Who are Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Success Child Care Inc ($316k), Young Mens Christian Association of the North ($128k), Hastings Child Development Center ($63k).
Does Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Think Small, First Children's Finance, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation.
Where is Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network based?
Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network is based in MN.

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 447 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 2021, released 2021. 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 $3.5M 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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