· Public charity
Center for Early Success
The mission of the CENTER FOR EARLY SUCCESS is to strengthen the system of individuals and organizations caring for and educating children age birth to five.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k5 grants · $711k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUST KIDS | $837,772 |
| ALTAVISTA AREA & BROOKNEAL YMCA | $614,237 |
| STEPS | $275,107 |
| CARING HEARTS ACADEMY | $272,298 |
| BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA | $256,735 |
| TEACHABLE MOMENTS | $164,760 |
| TED & TED'S TINY TOTS | $156,649 |
| MARY BETHUNE ACADEMY | $130,445 |
| CATERPILLAR CLUBHOUSE #4 | $130,050 |
| AMELON EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $128,926 |
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 (FY21–25, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k 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
- JKJUST KIDS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC3× · 2021–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +121% · 75% of their budget
- AAAltavista Area YMCA Inc3× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +29%
- BABEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA2× · 2024–2025 · $500k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INCone grant, 2024 · $282k · revenue -1%
- EEELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $188k · revenue 0%
- TETLT ENTERPRISESone grant, 2021 · $136k
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.
Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. our focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. we help kids succeed, prepare teens…
The young men's christian association of delaware county d/b/a the community ymca of eastern delaware county ("the community ymca or "the organization") was organized on december 14, 1948 under the laws of pennsylvania as a nonprofit…
The ymca of kanawha valley is a charitable, social service organization dedicted to youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. with a mission to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy…
The Family YMCA of Emporia-Greensville's purpose is to advance our cause of strengthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. The YMCA is a powerful association of men, women, and children…
Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the csra through programs designed to build healthy spirit, mind, and body, reflecting the values of the judeo-christian tradition while maintaining respect for all people.
To put Christian principles into practice through programs and services that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The mary ymca is a chartiable, community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races, and religions. we are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families, and a strong community…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all
At the YMCA of Central Virginia, we are driven by our mission which is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
We offer a wide variety of programs and services, providing opportunities for adults and children to improve in spirit, mind and body. the ymca has childcare and preschool for children. we also have fitness classes, swim lessons, and…
To promote the christian way of living among its members and constituents, to promote the physical, mental & spiritual welfare of persons and to emphasize reverence for god, responsibility for the common good, respect for personality and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southside Virginia Family Ymca and the most unlike its peers is Just Kids Child Development 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.
10 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. 10 of the 36 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 JUST KIDS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Altavista Area YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds STEPS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DANVILLE VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE-PITTSYLVANIA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA FAMILY YMCA ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Dan River Region · Centra Health Inc · Womack Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Center for Early Success 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.