Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC
ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,864,216 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($877,625). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Acre Family Child Care Inc does
Mission
Acre Family Child Care Inc.'s mission is to provide a pathway for women to achieve economic independence by operating high quality child care businesses in their homes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Acre Family Child Care holds contracts with the Massachussetts Dept of Early Education and Care to administer child care subsidies and provide support for Income Eligible families, Families Experiencing Homelessness and Young Parents Under 24. Acre refers families to a network of licensed contracted family childcare providers. Acre provides the contracted providers with ongoing business support including family referrals, professional development, parent and contract billing and payments for services. In addition, Acre Family Child Care accepts, administers, supports and refers families with childcare vouchers.
$4,996,153 spentof which $1,294 as grants$3,786,338 earned by the program65% of program spendingAcre Family Child Care holds contracts with the Massachussetts Dept of Early Education and Care to administer child care subsidies and provide support for families receiving assistance from the Dept of Children and Families. Acre refers families to a network of licensed contracted family childcare providers. Acre provides the contracted providers with ongoing business support including family referrals, professional development, parent and contract billing and payments for services.
$1,546,147 spent20% of program spendingAcre Family Child Care provides transportation for children to and/or from contracted family child care programs.
$1,180,074 spent$429,876 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,722,374.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.0M to $6.3M (+55%).
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: 2018 87% · 2019 59% · 2020 66% · 2021 60% · 2022 58% · 2023 51% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Donna Saati
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $28k → $608k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 57% · 2019 81% · 2020 36% · 2021 51% · 2022 50% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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
62% of ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35.0M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$34.9M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$109k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE 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 ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC?
- ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,864,216 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($877,625). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,864,216 in grants to ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $877,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 27 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