Alaska · Nonprofit
CCS Early Learning
CCS Early Learning (Alaska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,904,428 to it, the largest being Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread ($1,988,099). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $11M
What CCS Early Learning does
Mission
Making a difference in the lives and families of young children within our community. We do this by providing Head Start, Early Head Start and Preschool Services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
CCS Operates two primary programs - Head Start (ages 3-5) and Early Head Start (prenatal-age 3). These programs are provided to vulnerable children/families. Stats from the 2024/2025 school year:Children and families qualified for services based on the following criteria:Low income (below 100% of poverty) 46%Foster Care 23%Homelessness 21%Children who had a diagnosed disability 19 of 359 = 5%Of these children with disabilities the number whose disability was determined while they were enrolled 11 of 19 = 58%The number/percentage of Head Start children up date on a schedule of age-appropriate preventative and primary health care (well child checks):At enrollment 60 of 359 = 17%At year end 167 of 359 = 47%The number/percentage of children who are provided Mental Health Services 27 of 359 = 8%Number/Percentage of Services Provided to Families (total of 317 families served):Parenting Education 41 of 317 = 13%Asset Building 43 of 317 = 14%Emergency/Crisis Intervention 124 of 317 = 39%Number of Volunteers - 494
$9,278,596 spent$1,230,261 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,278,596.
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.
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 $2.9M to $11M (+289%).
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: 2017 90% · 2018 96% · 2019 93% · 2020 88% · 2021 94% · 2022 91% · 2023 73% · 2024 86% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 4 funders, grant income rose $93k → $1.2M.
3 of 10 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 CCS Early Learning’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
CCS Early Learning leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 CCS Early Learning.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 84% · 2019 50% · 2020 80% · 2021 82% · 2022 55% · 2023 96% — 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
83% of CCS Early Learning's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
100% of CCS Early Learning's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k 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.
Government funding CCS Early Learning receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $64.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$64.0M
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 CCS Early Learning
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CCS Early Learning: 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 CCS Early Learning?
- CCS Early Learning (Alaska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,904,428 to it, the largest being Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread ($1,988,099). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CCS Early Learning have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $4,904,428 in grants to CCS Early Learning, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CCS Early Learning?
- Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread is the largest funder on record, with $1,988,099 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CCS Early Learning find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 10 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