Colorado · Nonprofit
CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE
CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,520 to it, the largest being CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($53,560). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $321k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Chaffee County Childcare does
Mission
At Ark Valley Preschool, we strive to create a nurturing and stimulating environment where young children can flourish. Our mission is to support the holistic development of each child by fostering independent thinking, creativity, and a lifelong love of learning. Through engaging activities and diverse experiences, we focus on social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth while also honoring each childs unique identity and sense of belonging. Equity, inclusion, and respect for differences are woven into all we do, so children learn that who they are is valued. Our teachers are highly trained in early childhood education and dedicated to providing exceptional care for every child. More than caregivers, they are partners in nurturing wonder, joy, and curiosity through a Reggio-inspired approach. Our curriculum integrates the arts, imaginative play, multi-sensory teaching, and daily nature exploration. Children learn through books, storytelling, nature, and music.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Preschool offered for 27 children
$361,189 spentof which $48,033 as grants$222,456 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $361,189.
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. 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 $78k to $173k (+122%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Katherine Patti
President of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $28k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE’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
CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 68% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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.
Against its field
CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE: 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 CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE?
- CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,520 to it, the largest being CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($53,560). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $140,520 in grants to CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE?
- CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $53,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAFFEE COUNTY CHILDCARE 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.
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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 7 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