Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHILD CARE CHOICES INC
CHILD CARE CHOICES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $563,764 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ($404,321). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $564k
- Net assets
- $525k
What Child Care Choices Inc does
Mission
Building brighter futures, nurturing growth, and creating pathways to success for the early childhood community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Child Care Choices, Inc.(CCCI) holds a contract with the State of Minnesota to sponsor the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program. The program promotes proper nutrition for children in the care of licensed in-home child care providers by reimbursing them for a portion of their food costs for creditable meals. Child care providers keep daily records of attendance and meals served to children in their care. The information is then submitted by claims electronically or on paper to CCCI for processing. The claims are reviewed for accuracy and allowable food served according to USDA regulations, then submitted electronically to the State for final processing. Payment is made to CCCI for the grand total of claims and the payments are disbursed to each individual provider.
$5,230,415 spentof which $4,487,942 as grants60% of program spendingChild Care Choices, Inc. serves as the Child Care Aware, West/Central District site for 22 counties, 7W Regional services for Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright Counties, and Northwest Training Delivery. Through all services provided, Child Care Aware promotes high quality child care that meets the needs of young children and their families. Child Care Aware, West/Central provides Professional Development, Grants, and Parent Aware recruiting to all 22 counties within the District. Region 7W Child Care Aware provides community outreach and support to child care programs and Parent Aware Coaching. Child Care Aware at the Regional and District level, provides resources and tools to help individuals open a child care business. Child Care Aware also has components that offer services to Family, Friend, and Neighbor (legally non-licensed) child caregivers.
$2,991,925 spentof which $806,963 as grants$110,455 earned by the program34% of program spendingChild Care Choices, Inc. administers the Early Learning Scholarship Program for Region 7W in Minnesota. This program is a State of Minnesota initiative to expand access to high quality early childhood education programs for children ages three to five from low-income families. These scholarships provide financial assistance for eligible families to enroll their children in high quality child care and early education programs participating in Parent Aware.
$447,167 spent5% of program spendingChild Care Choices, Inc. hosts a learning event each year to provide child care providers with the opportunity to receive education and training on issues affecting the child care profession. Child care providers receive creditable training hours that can be used to meet state licensing requirements. The learning event offers training on a variety of issues affecting all child care providers.
$3,005 spent$640 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,672,512.
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.
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 $1.7M to $3.9M (+123%).
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: 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHILD CARE CHOICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (26% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Dichelle Czech
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $41k → $98k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CHOICES 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 CHOICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 CHOICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 42% · 2019 73% · 2020 75% · 2021 79% · 2022 83% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of CHILD CARE CHOICES INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k 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.
Against its field
CHILD CARE CHOICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like CHILD CARE CHOICES INC
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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 CHILD CARE CHOICES INC: 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 CHOICES INC?
- CHILD CARE CHOICES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $563,764 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ($404,321). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD CARE CHOICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $563,764 in grants to CHILD CARE CHOICES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD CARE CHOICES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $404,321 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD CARE CHOICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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