Virginia · Nonprofit
CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA
CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,254,547 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Child Care Aware of America does
Mission
Child Care Aware of America (ccaoa) is the only national organization that supports every part of the child care system. Together with an on-the-ground network of child care resource and referral (ccr&r) organizations working in states and communities, ccaoa advances high-quality, affordable child care and turns a patchwork of resources into a system that works for everyone by: growing and strengthening a national network of ccr&rs that deliver on-the-ground child care solutions for states and local communities; producing data, research, and real-world information gathered from our network in states and communities to drive effective practice and policy; working with policymakers and communities to build solutions and spur them to take action; and providing expertise and direct service to military families to meet their child care needs and support our national security. Together, we make child care strongand that makes everyone stronger.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Military child care programs: ccaoa partners with the united states military and the department of defense to help military families who are unable to access installation child care. Under this program, we: help military families find and afford quality child care; recruit and support child care providers and match them with eligible military families; support military families who have children with special needs with in-home respite child care; and use our research, policy expertise, and real-world experience serving military families to make america's child care system strong. Our military child care programs serve more than 22,000 families and 32,000 children each year through a nationwide network of more than 18,000 child care programs.
$21,569,081 spent$29,235,839 earned by the program86% of program spendingResearch, policy and public engagement: ccaoa produces data and research that drive effective practice and policy. We spur policymakers and communities to act and build solutions. Our research informs national conversations and systems change, supported by key publications. We mobilize over 14,000 digital advocacy actions and help secure new federal funding most recently, $500 million in new federal funds. More than 96% of our professional development participants report increased knowledge and skills.
$2,306,302 spentof which $124,940 as grants9% of program spendingOn the ground network: build, galvanize and advocate for a national network of ccr&rs from 46 states and washington, d.c. That build the supply and quality of child care, grow the child care workforce, help families and businesses solve their child care challenges, and deliver on-the-ground information and solutions to child care demand, supply and quality.
$1,317,267 spent$669,112 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,192,650.
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 $52M to $36M (−29%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Susan Gale Perry
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $536k → $4.7M.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 AWARE OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 funders by total. 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 AWARE OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 AWARE OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 79% · 2019 51% · 2020 25% · 2021 34% · 2022 42% · 2023 42% — 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
69% of CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 AWARE OF AMERICA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $527k on record — $523k federal, $4k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$323k
- Environmental Protection Agency$200k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$4k
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 AWARE OF AMERICA
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Respite Care of America LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA: 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 AWARE OF AMERICA?
- CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,254,547 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $19,254,547 in grants to CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 27 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