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Nana Grants Inc

Cover 100% childcare cost through graduation for low-income student mothers attending an accredited college or university in GA.

$179k
Granted FY2023
16
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Human Services$401kEducation$83k
02FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $131,070, the rows itemized in this filing. The $178,616 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $47,546 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k14 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$8,370
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kiddie Academy of Midtown$10,760
Pinnacle Pointe Academy Daycare Inc$10,675
Goddard School - Austell$9,610
Cornerstone Learning Center LLC$9,590
KinderCare Education LLC$9,579
Kids R Kids Learning Academy Mablet$9,360
A Smart Start Learning Academy$8,640
Atlanta Technical College Early Edu$8,370
Landie Emile$8,213
Sunrise Kids Learning Center - Lilb$8,060
Learning Ladder Wiz Kids Academy$7,803
Kim Brothers Kickin Kids$6,460
Ms Niecys Home Away From Home Lea$6,300
Chathams Academy of Martial Arts$6,285
Appleton Early Learning Center Inc$5,990
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Goddard School - Canton: $6k → 6%Kiddie Kollege & Kiddie Kollege Kam: $8k → 8%Kim Brothers Kickin Kids: $6k → 9%Learning Ladder Wiz Kids Academy: $8k → 9%Learning Care Group Inc: $8k → 10%Cornerstone Learning Center LLC: $12k → 11%Appleton Early Learning Center Inc: $6k → 13%Tallapoosa Christian Academy: $19k → 15%Early Learning Academy: $6k → 16%Goddard School - Woodstock: $10k → 6%Goddard School - Austell: $10k → 8%Discovery Point Duluth: $6k → 9%Chathams Academy of Martial Arts: $6k → 10%Cornerstone Learning Center LLC: $10k → 11%Atlanta Technical College Early Edu: $8k → 13%Dunwoody Prep: $20k → 14%Kidz Choice Learning Center: $10k → 16%Goddard School - Austell: $10k → 8%Golda Robertson: $9k → 9%Chathams Academy of Martial Arts: $6k → 10%Cornerstone Learning Center LLC: $10k → 11%O2B Kids: $11k → 13%Childtime Childcare Inc: $6k → 14%Child Network Inc 254: $6k → 16%Landie Emile: $19k → 8%Fanta Sako: $12k → 13%Dunwoody Prep: $11k → 14%Landie Emile: $19k → 8%Sunrise Kids Learning Center - Lilb: $8k → 9%Kids R Kids of Alpharetta: $7k → 13%Landie Emile: $8k → 8%Sunrise Kids Learning Center - Lilb: $5k → 9%A Smart Start Learning Academy: $12k → 13%Kids R Kids Learning Academy Mablet: $9k → 8%Kiddie Academy of Dacula: $11k → 9%Pinnacle Pointe Academy Daycare Inc: $11k → 13%Rachels Family Day Care: $8k → 9%Pinnacle Pointe Academy Daycare Inc: $10k → 13%Legacy Academy Snellville: $10k → 9%A Smart Start Learning Academy: $10k → 13%A Smart Start Learning Academy: $9k → 13%KinderCare Education LLC: $19k → 9%Kiddie Academy of Midtown: $11k → 13%KinderCare Education LLC: $15k → 9%Ms Niecys Home Away From Home Lea: $6k → 13%KinderCare Education LLC: $10k → 9%Watch A Child Daycare: $7k → 9%Legacy Academy Sugarloaf: $6k → 9%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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 7 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
21

Total granted

$176k
$176k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $37k
  • KE
    KinderCare Education LLC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $31k

Funded once

  • TC
    Tallapoosa Christian Academy
    one grant, 2021 · $19k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
  • KA
    Kiddie Academy of Dacula
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
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
04the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $37,230 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKinderCare Education LLC: $34,711 · OtherKinderCare Education LLCIndividual grant recipient: $31,246 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCornerstone Learning Center LLC: $21,885 · OtherA Smart Start Learning Academy: $21,830 · OtherTallapoosa Christian Academy: $19,060 · Other+37 more: $311,417 · Other+37 moreMS NIECYS HOME AWAY FROM HOME LEARNING CENTER I: $6,300 · Education
Other$477,379Education$6,300

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMS NIECYS HOME AWAY FROM HOME LEARNING CENTER I: $6,300 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds MS NIECYS HOME AWAY FROM HOME LEARNING CENTER I ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Nana Grants Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Nana Grants Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 44 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $569k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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