Washington · Nonprofit
CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY
CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,454,541 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($278,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Child Care Action Council of Thurston County does
Mission
To promote and nurture early learning communities where families and children thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early achievers contract - a program to provide on-site coaching and site assessment for the purpose of quality improvement in six counties (clallam, jefferson, grays harbor, mason, kitsap and thurston,) child care resource and referral services to parents, child care providers and local communities. Provide information to help parents find quality licensed child care and support play and learn groups. Support providers in business, professional development and quality improvements. Support communities with networks and systems. Provide supporting data for these activities and overall child care supply and demand in washington.
$2,803,872 spent49% of program spendingEarly childhood education assistance program - a free early learning child care or preschool program to support child development and health, provide family support and facilitate parent involvement.
$2,155,118 spent37% of program spendingInfant/toddler consultation services - a program to provide technical assistance to licensed child care providers to support educating and caring for children.
$192,213 spent3% of program spendingChild care professional development academy - a program to conduct training primarily directed toward licensed child care center staff and family home providers.raising a reader - a program which focuses on early literacy development and parent-child bonding through reading.block fest - a program providing early learning parent-child engagements that are held at numerous community events.safe kids thurston county - provided injury prevention education and resources, such as helmets, car seat fittings, loaning life jacket program, and school pedestrian safety resourceschild care aware - parent education - a program to facilitate "intentional play" groups, literacy events and resource sharing.
$598,087 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,749,290.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.5M to $2.8M (+10%).
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 89% · 2018 88% · 2019 89% · 2020 94% · 2021 84% · 2022 93% · 2023 94% · 2024 92% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $85k → $233k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY’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
CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 78% · 2019 61% · 2020 24% · 2021 57% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
80% of CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $502k 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
CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$17k
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 CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY: 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 CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY?
- CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,454,541 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($278,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,454,541 in grants to CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $278,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing