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BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS
BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,434 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($307,067). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $521k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Butler County Children's Center Inc Dba Early Learning Connections does
Mission
Butler county children's center, inc.'s mission is to provide a variety of high quality early learning programs that foster a safe and positive culture through kindness and respect to meet the comprehensive needs of families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education program - the head start and early head start programs were awarded a change in scope application for the 24-25 program year. This award allows a grantee to lower the amount of awarded slots and use these per slot monies to hire additional staff, change the program year calendars to make all classrooms in both counties duration and support staff and families going forward. This application allows the head start classrooms to max out 15 children per classroom and still maintain the same amount of staff. This gives the children more personal experience and the staff to be hands-on with a smaller classroom. This award also gives all programs, including hssap, the ability to move to a 6.5 hour day instead of a 6 hour day. This then in turn will give the yearly calendar extra in-service days for staff to complete paperwork, participate in training, complete parent conferences and plan for lessons and units in their classroom. In addition, the budget allows for a second full-time mental health professional to be hired on staff to support classrooms, an additional program manager to lower the amount of classroom case loads and two floating assistant teachers in each county to…
$8,190,843 spent$8,713,202 earned by the program26% of program spendingElrc - elrc 3 received excellent results in meeting all performance requirements with no findings during the annual performance monitoring report for fiscal year 24-25.elrc's subsidized child care works (ccw) program had a total payout of over $19.6 million dollars to providers. We administered the continuous quality improvement grant (cqi) and awarded $471,000 in grants to eligible child care providers. Elrc also distributed over $768,000 to our providers who manage the infant toddler contracted slots (itcs) programs in our region.elrc partnered with the professional development organization (pdo) to provide technical assistance to childcare staff looking to attain higher educational credentialing. In addition, elrc collaborated with the rapid response team (rrt) for region 3 to help eliminate/minimize child suspensions/expulsions from child care facilities.
$22,642,544 spent$22,850,966 earned by the program72% of program spendingChild care - due to continued staffing issues, we had to continue with reduced enrollment criteria to include up to age 5 only.
$659,282 spent$519,507 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,492,669.
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.
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 $4.8M to $8.2M (+72%).
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.
0% of BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $129k → $21k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 82% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
59% of BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $213k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $308k 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.
Against its field
BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $69.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$69.2M
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 BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS?
- BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,434 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($307,067). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $521,434 in grants to BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS?
- THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $307,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 5 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