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Orange County Partnership for Young Children

To ensure that every child in orange county arrives at school healthy and ready to succeed.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$615k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$8.1MHuman Services$2.6MPhilanthropy$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.1MPublic Benefit$492kArts & Culture$181kCrime & Legal$71kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $736k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$132,860
Median grant
1
States reached
$-33238
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAPEL HILL - CARRBORO SCHOOLS$615,404
ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOLS$334,857
FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES RISING$276,821
CHILDRENS CAMPUS OF CHAPEL HILL$150,995
CHILD CARE SERVICES ASSOCIATION$148,946
BRIGHT STAR ACADEMY$142,250
SPANISH FOR FUN$132,860
CENTER OF EXCELLENCE CHILD CARE$93,673
COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR PEOPLE UNDER SIX$67,491
ALPHABET SOUP$49,665
ORANGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL$44,000
LEGACY ACADEMY CHAPEL HILL$42,760
KIDZUCHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$40,000
ORANGE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES$7,654
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOLMES CHILD CARE: $22k → 13%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 23 repeat orgs$619k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
5

Total granted

$14M
$619k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-5%

Still filing today

35%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FA
    FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +9%
  • EY
    EARLY YEARS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $664k · revenue +18%
  • EL CENTRO HISPANO INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $341k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHAPEL HILL TRAINING OUTREACH
    2× · 2019–2020 · $437k
  • TT
    TINY TOTS CHILDCARE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $143k
  • HC
    HOLMES CHILD CARE CENTER INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $22k · revenue -5%
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.

1
Child Development Center
Human Services
2
Nek Community Growth Center

Education of childcare workers

Education
3
Children's Center at Usc

Our mission is to provide the best quality education and care for children and to become a national model for early childhood education. in addition to providing a healthy learning environment for children, the center also provides an…

Education
4
National Child Care Institute of Charlotte

Ncci is a center for children and/or adults who are academically or economically challenged and in need of support. programs include: tutoring, consultation, child care, skill training for todays job market, and home support assistance.

Youth Development
5
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…

Education
6
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
7
Kid Central

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.

Education
8
Onslow County Partnership for Children

When they have challenges, we connect all children and their families to programs and resources that provide opportunities and hope.

Education
9
Rochester Child Care Center Inc

The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…

Human Services
10
Beggining Child Care Center

Child care services and child preschool instruction

Education
11
Orange County Partnership for Young Children

To ensure that every child in orange county arrives at school healthy and ready to succeed. we focus on the early years of a child's life, from birth to five, which is the most critical time in a child's development.

Education
12
Otter Creek Child Center Inc

Child Care Centers

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families and Communities Rising Inc; the most unlike its peers is Holmes Child Care Center Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 28 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAPEL HILL - CARRBORO SCHOOLS: $3,508,821 · OtherCHAPEL HILL - CARRBORO SCHOOLSORANGE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $2,431,190 · OtherORANGE COUNTY SCHOOLSSPANISH FOR FUN: $939,604 · OtherSPANISH FOR FUNCENTER OF EXCELLENCE CHILD CARE: $806,379 · OtherCENTER OF EXCELLENCE CHILD CAREALPHABET SOUP: $777,141 · OtherALPHABET SOUPCOMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR PEOPLE UNDER SIX: $674,068 · OtherCOMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR PEOPLE UNDER SIXEARLY YEARS INC: $664,233 · OtherEARLY YEARS INCCHAPEL HILL TRAINING OUTREACH: $436,965 · Other+16 more: $1,929,302 · Other+16 moreFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC: $1,624,243 · PhilanthropyFAMILIES AND…EL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $341,458 · Community ImprovementORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $70,859 · HealthHOLMES CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $21,500 · Human Services
Other$12,167,703Philanthropy$1,624,243Community Improvement$341,458Health$70,859Human Services$21,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC: $1,624,243 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetEARLY YEARS INC: $664,233 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $341,458 over 3y, 14% of budgetORANGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $325,017 over 7y, 17% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $180,997 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $70,859 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetChapel Hill Day Care Center Inc: $48,950 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVictory Village Day Care Center Inc: $12,613 over 2y, 0.8% 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 FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds EARLY YEARS INC ↗
  • Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Chapel Hill Day Care Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOLMES CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Victory Village Day Care Center Inc ↗

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.

Early Years IncNC36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Early Years Inc · Strowd Roses Inc · Chatham County Partnership for Children · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Orange County Partnership for Young Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orange County Partnership for Young Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.

    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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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