Wisconsin · Nonprofit
4C For Children Inc
4C For Children Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,396,139 to it, the largest being THRIVING WISCONSIN INC ($17,075,147). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $945k
What 4C For Children Inc does
Mission
4C is the state appointed Child Care Resource and Referral Agency serving six counties Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha. We provide a wide-variety of services to any and all regulated child care programs to include training and education and technical assistance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Child Adult Care Food Program - offers child care providers in Southeastern Wisconsin the opportunity to participate in the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program to assist in providing nutritious meals to the children in care. The program provides nutrition education and reimbursement for providers who serve meals which meet USDA CACFP guidelines.
$2,344,846 spent48% of program spendingYoungstar - Quality Improvement, Technical assistance and Rating of Regulated programs.
$562,878 spent$3,506 earned by the program12% of program spendingPre-licensing certifications
$478,800 spent$411,949 earned by the program10% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 336,503, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Child Care Resouce Referral Program CCRR responsible for providing four core services, available to all families and providers within their designated service delivery areas. The four core services are Referrals and reesouces for families, providers, and communities Training for child care providers Data collection and monitoring Local suppports Program Service Expenses 318,595, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 284,884 Training - Provide training and educational opportunities for all regulated child care programs. Program Service Expenses 101,847, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Maximus Training contract Program Service Expenses 726,750, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Family Center of Washington Co., Partner Up and Other Programs
$1,483,695 spent$284,884 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,870,219.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $1.9M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 48% · 2021 37% · 2022 41% · 2023 49% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Teresa Alexander
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $2.6M → $1.8M.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 4C For Children Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
4C For Children Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 4C For Children Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 84% · 2022 93% · 2023 82% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of 4C For Children Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of 4C For Children Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $809k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like 4C For Children Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 4C For Children Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 4C For Children Inc?
- 4C For Children Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,396,139 to it, the largest being THRIVING WISCONSIN INC ($17,075,147). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 4C For Children Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $18,396,139 in grants to 4C For Children Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 4C For Children Inc?
- THRIVING WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,075,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 4C For Children Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing