· Public charity
Healthy Child Care Colorado
Our mission is to build safe, supportive, and healthy early childhood settings and systems where children and professionals learn and grow.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $78,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $288,578 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $210,578 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTHER GRANTS-UNDER 5000 | $25,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,700 |
| ECE CONSULTING WITH KATIE | $10,900 |
| TELLER PARK EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL | $7,700 |
| COLORADO CHILDCARE CONSULTING LLC | $5,500 |
| WITH EASE LLC | $5,400 |
| JOINT INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES | $5,400 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LGLITTLE GIANTS LEARNING CENTER3× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +56%
- CHCHILDRENS HAVEN CHILD CARE CENTER2× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +32%
- VFVENTURE FOR SUCCESS PREPARATORY LEARNING CENTER2× · 2017–2020 · $17k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- VCVARIOUS COLORADO ORGANIZATIONS (DETAIL AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST)one grant, 2018 · $833k
- CECHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER AT CALVARY TEMPLEone grant, 2017 · $50k
- CSCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +56%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Mountain Tots preschool provides high quality early learning enrichment programs that enhances educational, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development as well as Kindergarten-readiness. We provide preschool and childcare…
The organization provides childcare, preschool programs, gifted programs, vocational training, and therapy for the developmentally disabled.
The Children's Garden Early Learning Center is designed to meet the early care and educational needs for children ages 6 weeks through their 8th birthday. Serving up to 70 children on a full or part time basis through Early Head Start,…
The Small People Child Development Center is organized to provide early childhood education, care, and developmental services to infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. The organization supports working families by offering a safe,…
Early childhood education
Monarch Preschool offers a unique play-based learning experience for your child. Play-based, child-led education supports social and emotional development, strengthens language and numeracy skills, and inspires a life-long love of learning.
Little Beginnings provides pre kindergarten and day care to children under 6 years of age. We believe that learning and playing are synonymous for the preschool age child. Young children learn best when they have an opportunity to practice…
Seeds of Learning is a stand-alone, NAEYC accredited early care and education center, that serves children ages 30 months through age 5. As a community-based facility, Seeds offers parenting classes, educational opportunities for families…
In 2001, Joyful Learning Educational Development Center (Joyful Learning EDC) was founded with a clear vision to provide accessible, high-quality childcare that meets the diverse needs of every child.
At Ark Valley Preschool, we strive to create a nurturing and stimulating environment where young children can flourish. Our mission is to support the holistic development of each child by fostering independent thinking, creativity, and a…
Head start and preschool services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High Montessori Early Learning Cent and the most unlike its peers is Special Kids-Special Families Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE GIANTS LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CREEDE EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HAVEN CHILD CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR SUCCESS PREPARATORY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH MONTESSORI EARLY LEARNING CENT ↗
- Who funds Teller Park Early Childhood Council ↗
- Who funds PADDINGTON STATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds MASLOW ACADEMY OF APPLIED LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Early Childhood Council ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Early Milestones Colorado · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Denver Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Sam S Bloom Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Rose Foundation · Daniels Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Healthy Child Care Colorado funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.