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CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC

CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,616,487 to it, the largest being Childcare Network of Evanston ($1,034,789). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$2.7M
9/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Child Care Center of Evanston Inc does

Mission

The organization is committed to providing quality and affordable child care services and preschool programs to children 2 to 5 years.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization has a full-day preschool program for children ages 2-5 years old, offering a warm and nurturing environment that enhances the development of young children.

    $1,340,837 spent$1,367,241 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,340,837.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 119 ($1.6M) Expenses 93 ($1.4M) Net assets 129 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 120 ($1.6M) Expenses 96 ($1.5M) Net assets 124 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 107 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 118 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 119 ($1.6M) Expenses 104 ($1.6M) Net assets 119 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 181 ($2.4M) Expenses 108 ($1.7M) Net assets 174 ($2.7M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (181)Expenses (108)Net assets (174)Peer revenue range

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 $2.0M to $2.8M (+41%).

$1.9M
$2.3M
$2.0M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.8M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

41% of CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$232k
’20
$131k
’21
$95k
’22
−$138k
’23
−$42k
’24
$720k
’25
3.0
months of
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

Bernice Mahan

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed171716151616
Joined·+5+4+1+6+3
No longer listed·55253
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $133k → $141k.

7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CENTER OF EVANSTON INC’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 CENTER OF EVANSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 CENTER OF EVANSTON INC.

64%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 53% · 2019 58% · 2020 44% · 2021 46% · 2022 84% · 2023 84% — 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.

How long its funders stay

56% of CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

100% of CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $580k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 18%Fundraising 2%

Governance

16
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC?
CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,616,487 to it, the largest being Childcare Network of Evanston ($1,034,789). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,616,487 in grants to CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC?
Childcare Network of Evanston is the largest funder on record, with $1,034,789 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILD CARE CENTER OF EVANSTON INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 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