How much does Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association give?

Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association reported 4 itemized grants totaling $118,050, out of $4,542,756 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 1,955 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Education (26%), Religion (8%).

Who are Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kuehg Corp Dba Kindercare Education LLC ($38M), Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Dayton ($15M), Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio ($13M).

Does Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 1% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Action for Children, Cincinnati Preschool Promise LLC, Ohio Children's Alliance.

Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association

Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association

Q: Where is Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association based?

Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association is based in OH.

Occrra enhances the statewide system of child and youth learning and development experiences to achieve high quality outcomes for ohio children and families.

$4.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$51k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$454MEducation$321MReligion$102MYouth Development$79MCommunity Improvement$73MArts & Culture$66MHealth$39MEmployment$9.0MOther$0

02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 4 grants below total $118,050, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,542,756 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,424,706 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 · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k2 grants · $60k
$50k–250k1 grant · $51k

$41,020

Median grant

States reached

$6.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY	$50,970
TRUMBULL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM	$41,020
KINDERCARE EDUCATION LLC	$19,100
HIGHLY MOTIVATED PROFESSIONALS CHILDCARE CENTER	$6,960

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $46.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$976M · 1966 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

1966 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1964 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1966

Total granted

$976M

$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+32%

Still filing today

15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DAYTON
5× · 2020–2024 · $15M · revenue +72%
YM
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO
4× · 2020–2024 · $13M · revenue +33%
YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AKRON INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +56%

Funded once

BS
BARRINGTON SCHOOL OF NEW ALBANY
one grant, 2024 · $587k
TA
TAYLOR ACT OF LEARNING YELADIM ACADEMY INC
one grant, 2024 · $568k
KD
KREATIVE DREAMS LEARNING CENTER
one grant, 2024 · $568k

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.

Christ Church Day Care Inc

Building a stronger tomorrow through nurturing today.

Education

Life Christian Academy Inc

Life christian academy provides christian-based care and education for children ages 6 weeks to 5th grade. it is a private, christian preschool and school.

Education

Child Care Center of the Common Ground Foundation

Provide child care services to the community for children ages 16 weeks to 12 years.

Human Services

Precious Years Learning Center

Non-profit child care center

Human Services

Young Child Associates

Young Child Assiciates mission is to keep children safe and to support families in the daily care and guidance of their children. Our programs are designed to promote social, academic and personal growth using large and small group…

Human Services

Children's Center

Provide childcare services

Human Services

The Children's Center

To provide an atmosphere that will enhance social, emotional, physical and intellectual skills for children in a safe and happy environment.

Human Services

Dublin Community Preschool

Preschool education and childcare

Education

Central Christian Child Development Center Inc

An educational organization operated exclusively for charitable purposes and conducts child care activities that allow parents to seek and hold employment.

Human Services

Bucksport Area Child Care Center

It is our mission to provide a child-centered environment, treating each child and family with respect.

Human Services

Family Cooperative Preschool Inc

Preschool program

Education

Children's Discovery Center

Education and social developement center to provide preschool and after school care to children while promoting a child's emotional, educational and physical growth.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care Center; the most unlike its peers is The Glen at St Joseph. 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

299 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. 299 of the 2,000 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

293/299

Grantees still filing

194/299

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$281,390,409Human Services$96,676,042Philanthropy$7,834,494Education$6,625,042Community Improvement$3,282,550Youth Development$965,846

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Action for ChildrenOH94.2× affinity247 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Action for Children · Cincinnati Preschool Promise LLC · Ohio Children's Alliance · Child Care Resource Center Inc · Ohio Childrens Foundation · Early Care and Learning Inc · Ohio Association of Foodbanks Inc · Oneohio Recovery Foundation Inc · Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio · Ohio Assoc Cnty Behavioral Hlth Auth Foundation · The William Swanston Charitable Fund · Cise

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 Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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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