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ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC

ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,067,145 to it, the largest being TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION ($690,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.0M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$451k
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc does

Mission

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Learning & development- our learning and development initiatives support early childhood professionals throughout arapahoe county, giving them the tools and support they need to continually improve the quality of their learning enviroments for young children

    $611,566 spent
    21% of program spending

  2. Family support projects- offers a variety of family support programs that connect and empower families with the knowledge and strategies they need. Our ongoing resources and support help ensure the well-being, health, and development of kids, families, and communities in arapahoe county

    $811,346 spent
    28% of program spending

  3. Increased capacity and access to childcare- increase the quality, availability, and access to licensed childcare in arapahoe county for young children

    $765,032 spent
    26% of program spending

  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $711,060 spentof which $16,750 as grants$7,858 earned by the program
    25% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,899,004.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($337k)2018 Revenue 79 ($2.1M) Expenses 83 ($2.2M) Net assets 62 ($208k)2019 Revenue 84 ($2.2M) Expenses 78 ($2.1M) Net assets 101 ($341k)2020 Revenue 82 ($2.2M) Expenses 80 ($2.2M) Net assets 112 ($377k)2021 Revenue 80 ($2.1M) Expenses 80 ($2.1M) Net assets 110 ($370k)2022 Revenue 120 ($3.2M) Expenses 118 ($3.2M) Net assets 115 ($388k)2023 Revenue 113 ($3.0M) Expenses 110 ($3.0M) Net assets 133 ($449k)2024 Revenue 160 ($4.3M) Expenses 157 ($4.2M) Net assets 143 ($484k)2025 Revenue 113 ($3.0M) Expenses 113 ($3.0M) Net assets 134 ($451k)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (113)Net assets (134)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $552k to $958k (+73%).

$460k
$399k
$491k
$553k
$552k
$958k
$909k
$911k
$703k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 84% · 2021 89% · 2022 92% · 2023 86% · 2024 94% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$24k
’17
−$130k
’18
$134k
’19
$35k
’20
−$7k
’21
$18k
’22
$61k
’23
$35k
’24
−$33k
’25
0.7
months of
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

Gretchen Davidson

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Melodie Morris

Chair and treasurer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1012121111981011
Joined·+3+0+5+0+3+0+3+2
No longer listed·10605111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $239k → $344k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Parent Possibleunclassified
$241k
Invest in Kidsunclassified
$162k
Lena Foundationunclassified
$147k
Rsm US Foundationunclassified
$34k
funders
5
4
5
5
5
7
8
3
3

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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

ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC.

33%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 48% · 2019 37% · 2020 83% · 2021 64% · 2022 70% · 2023 41% — 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

44% of ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

MN
IA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $244k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL 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 Colorado

East Side Child Care Center Inc84%Early Childhood Council of Boulder County84%Aurora Economic Development Council Inc83%Healthy Child Care Colorado83%Denver Early Childhood Council83%Advocates for Children83%American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado82%Early Childhood Network82%

Nationally

Arizona Early Childhood Education Association84%East Side Child Care Center Inc84%Early Childhood Council of Boulder County84%Early Connections Inc84%Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families83%Encompass Early Education & Care Inc83%Aurora Economic Development Council Inc83%Educational Child Care Center83%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC?
ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,067,145 to it, the largest being TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION ($690,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,067,145 in grants to ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC?
TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $690,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARAPAHOE COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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