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National Association for the Education of Young Children

Naeyc promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research.

$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.3MHuman Services$1.0MCivil Rights$300kPublic Benefit$300kPhilanthropy$70kCrime & Legal$60kEnvironment$50kCommunity Improvement$16k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $25,833, the rows itemized in this filing. The $69,361 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,528 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.
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHWEST OHIO ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN$15,000
WASHINGTON DC ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN$10,833
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $998k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OREGON ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $10k → 8%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY: $55k → 16%CHILDCARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $298k → 7%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY: $10k → 16%CHILDCARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $281k → 7%CHILDCARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $248k → 7%CHILDCARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $98k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
ID
MT
WI
NY
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 18 repeat orgs$318k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$2.8M
$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $300k · revenue +67%
  • START EARLY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $290k · revenue +73%
  • IA
    IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN
    5× · 2018–2022 · $105k · revenue +251%

Funded once

  • MS
    MBST SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $56k
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • MA
    MD ASSOC FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $36k
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

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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National Association for the Education of Young Children

Naeyc promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. we advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and…

Education
2
California Association for the Education of Young Children

CAEYC envisions a respected professional work force providing developmentally appropriate and culturally sensitive, high-quality, early care and education for all young children achieved through research, education, professional…

Education
3
Early Care and Education Association

Support for Child Care Centers and professionals in the Upper Valley Region of New Hampshire and Vermont.

Education
4
Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children

It is the collective responsibility of the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children to center the needs and realities of those who are most negatively impacted by systemic inequity. See Schedule O for full…

Human Services
5
Vt Association for the Education of Young Children

The vermont association for the education of young children (vtaeyc) advances equity and excellence in early childhood education with early childhood educators as our foundation. as a membership organization, we provide resources and…

Education
6
Connecticut Association for the Education of Young Children Inc

To enhance the care, education, and development of Connecticut's young children, in the context of family, and community; and to support the professionals who care for them. CTAEYC provides training to increase the competencies of…

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7
Ohio Assn for the Education of Young Children

Membership organization for early care and education professionals in ohio.

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8
Nebraska Association for the Education of Young Children Inc

Promote professional development activities; advocate for issues relating to children and families; serve as a resource for local affiliates and for other agencies involved in working with and for children & families; disseminate…

Youth Development
9
North Carolina Early Education Coalition

Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, training, newsletters, fact sheets, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and…

Education
10
Pennsylvania Child Care Association

The pennsylvania child care association (pacca), a statewide non-profit organization, exists to be a strong and effective advocate for high-quality early care and education (ece) programs, and to give leadership and support to those…

Human Services
11
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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12
Early Childhood Learning Educa Assessment Resource Network Inc

Providing education & support for those working in early education and child care. ec learn inspires & equips families, professionals, and community learders to prioritize early childhood education for a

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Association for the Education of Young Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Children At Risk. 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

30 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. 30 of the 33 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $923,250 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICAADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY: $65,000 · Human ServicesADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesIOWA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $104,682 · EducationIOWA ASSOCIATION FOR THE E…Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children: $97,500 · EducationPennsylvania Association f…New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children: $96,800 · EducationNew Mexico Association for…Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children: $92,000 · EducationArizona Association for th…MAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $90,000 · EducationMAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE …Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children: $82,300 · EducationIdaho Association for the …SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $75,000 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION F…MD ASSOC FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $35,500 · EducationNevada Association for the Education of Young Children: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $19,833 · EducationSTART EARLY: $290,000 · OtherSTART EARLYWISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $99,886 · OtherWISCONSIN EARLY CHILD…MBST SOLUTIONS: $55,945 · OtherMBST SOLUTIONSNEW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $34,800 · OtherNEW YORK ASSOCIATION …MONTANA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATI ON OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $93,250 · Other+8 moreCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $300,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR …BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $300,000 · Public BenefitBIPARTISAN …MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $35,000 · PhilanthropyRODEL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION - DE: $35,000 · PhilanthropyChildren At Risk: $60,000 · Crime & LegalSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $50,000 · Environment
Human Services$998,250Education$718,615Other$593,881Civil Rights$300,000Public Benefit$300,000Philanthropy$70,000Crime & Legal$60,000Environment$50,000

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 budgetCHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $923,250 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $300,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSTART EARLY: $290,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $104,682 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $99,886 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children: $97,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetNew Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children: $96,800 over 4y, 11% of budgetArizona Association for the Education of Young Children: $92,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $90,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetIdaho Association for the Education of Young Children: $82,300 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY: $65,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetChildren At Risk: $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRODEL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION - DE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $34,800 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNevada Association for the Education of Young Children: $25,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMONTANA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATI ON OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $20,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetIndiana Association for the Education of Young Children Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Jersey Association for the Education of Young Children: $16,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN (DCAEYC): $10,833 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOREGON ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHIL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $6,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $6,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGeorgia Association for the Education OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $6,500 over 1y, 3.7% 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.

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.

Alliance for Early Su…WK Kellogg FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy AllianceDC21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance · WK Kellogg Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 National Association for the Education of Young Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association for the Education of Young Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Oregon Association for the Education of Young Chil: 30% of income from government
  • Rodel Charitable Foundation - De: 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home