Texas · Nonprofit
CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES
CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES (Texas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,923,510 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS FOUNDATION ($1,222,660). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $148M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Child Care Associates does
Mission
Cca's mission is to assist family successes through excellence in comprehensive early education and development services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The twc grants in curantis group llc ended may 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Child care management services (ccms):Child Care Associates supports working families and parents completing degrees and workforce credentials by offsetting the cost of quality child care through child care scholarships. Ccms in tarrant county served approximately 7,300 families and 13,200 children via 536 child care provider partners in the program year. Additionally, ccms improves the quality of child care in tarrant county via our team of texas rising star mentors. Child care quality is systematically improved along the state's child care quality rating system in areas such as training, credentials, instruction, teacher-child interactions, curriculum, learning environments, health, safety and nutrition. Ccms increases the child care scholarship amounts paid to child care providers based assessments of quality as well as invests in child care quality improvement.
$91,445,700 spent$275,513 earned by the program67% of program spendingEarly education & care services:Child Care Associates prepares children from birth to age 5 for success in school and life. Cca operates 15 early education campuses across tarrant county serving 790 children 0-5 in 2024. Cca serves young children and their families comprehensively with full-day and/or full-year programming as well as support services. Head start children receive support services in educational growth, special needs, health, dental health and mental health in addition to family supports. Cca integrates services for children with special needs, serving over 10% children with disabilities. Each campus is supported by a family engagement advocate to help connect families to community resources and services. For families not ready for center-based support, cca offers home visiting supports for families of infants and toddlers (72) as well as among pregnant mothers (39). Campuses also partner to deliver prekindergarten and/or child care services.
$33,103,964 spent24% of program spendingChild care training & technical assistance:Child Care Associates strengthened the child care system across texas by partnering with the texas workforce commission (twc) to provide statewide business coaching and operational support to licensed child care centers. Cca directly coached child care business owners and operators to address operational challenges, improve management practices, and enhance financial stability. Providers received assistance in developing business plans, accessing resources, and implementing strategies to promote long-term sustainability. Additionally, cca maintained a child care knowledge hub and provided technical assistance related to specialized funding. Cca served and impacted approximately 1,800 child care providers. This program concluded in may 2024 following completion of the three-year program term.
$2,710,060 spent2% of program spendingNorth central texas child care services (ccs):Child Care Associates supports working families and parents completing degrees and workforce credentials by offsetting the cost of quality child care through child care scholarships. Cca serves the following counties in north central texas: allen, arlington, carrollton, dallas, denton, fort worth, frisco, garland, grand prairie, irving, lewisville, mckinney, mesquite, plano, and richardson. Cca served approximately 5,200 families and 8,000 children via 696 child care provider partners in the program year. Additionally, ccs improves the quality of child care in tarrant county via our team of texas rising star mentors. Child care quality is systematically improved along the state's child care quality rating system in areas such as training, credentials, instruction, teacher-child interactions, curriculum, learning environments, health, safety and nutrition. Ccs increases the child care scholarship amounts paid to child care providers based assessments of quality as well as invests in child care quality improvement.child care innovation:Child Care Associates leads and collaborates to develop the early childhood system that supports…
$8,617,395 spentof which $500,000 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $135,877,119.
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 2022 to 2023, from $18M to $29M (+56%).
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 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 90% · 2024 89%. 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 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.
Chief executive
Kara D Waddell See Sch J
President/CEO
Board chair
Al Saenz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $87k → $728k.
5 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 ASSOCIATES’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 ASSOCIATES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
44% 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 ASSOCIATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 59% · 2019 46% · 2020 24% · 2021 22% · 2022 37% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
84% of CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $588k 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 CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $252.8M on record — $252.8M federal, $14 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$252.8M
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $14
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 ASSOCIATES
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% 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
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Curantis Group LLC · disregarded
- Pre-K Today LLC · disregarded
- Child Care Management Services LLC · disregarded
- Child Care Associates Foundation · exempt
- Child Care Associates Title-Holding Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES: 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 ASSOCIATES?
- CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES (Texas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,923,510 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS FOUNDATION ($1,222,660). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $5,923,510 in grants to CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES?
- THE MORRIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,222,660 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 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