Illinois · Nonprofit
Charleston Community Early Learning Center
Charleston Community Early Learning Center (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,700 to it, the largest being CHARLESTON AREA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($46,641). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $862k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $666k
What Charleston Community Early Learning Center does
Mission
To serve Charleston & the surrounding communities by providing a developmentally appropriate early-childhood setting for children ages six weeks through 10 years of age regardless of economic status, race or creed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Child care program - Day care & early learning center for children
$756,797 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $756,797.
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 2020 to 2021, from $209k to $436k (+108%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 9% · 2020 34% · 2021 42% · 2022 29% · 2023 28% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of Charleston Community Early Learning Center’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. 1 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $27.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Charleston Community Early Learning Center’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
Charleston Community Early Learning Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Charleston Community Early Learning Center's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $227 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Charleston Community Early Learning Center is better cushioned than half 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 Charleston Community Early Learning Center
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Charleston Community Early Learning Center: 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 Charleston Community Early Learning Center?
- Charleston Community Early Learning Center (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,700 to it, the largest being CHARLESTON AREA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($46,641). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Charleston Community Early Learning Center have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $47,700 in grants to Charleston Community Early Learning Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Charleston Community Early Learning Center?
- CHARLESTON AREA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $46,641 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Charleston Community Early Learning Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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