Skip to content

Alaska · Nonprofit

Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread

Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread (Alaska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,892,576 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($1,144,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$2.2M
9/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread does

Mission

To advance the quality of early education and child development by empowering parents, educating child care professionals, and collaborating with our communities. We provide statewide Child Care Resources and Referral Services; Pre-Kindergarten services; and Child Care Assistance services (in the Northern Region & Southwest Regions).

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Child care resource and referral services Includes direct and organizational support to deliver program services to families, early educators, early childhood programs and the community to support and advance access to affordable and high quality early childhood education.

    $9,773,759 spentof which $4,806,450 as grants$277,930 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,773,759.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.8M) Expenses 100 ($4.7M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 100 ($4.8M) Expenses 101 ($4.8M) Net assets 103 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 127 ($6.1M) Expenses 129 ($6.1M) Net assets 104 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 129 ($6.3M) Expenses 129 ($6.1M) Net assets 115 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 144 ($6.9M) Expenses 147 ($7.0M) Net assets 125 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 630 ($30M) Expenses 639 ($30M) Net assets 130 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 1210 ($58M) Expenses 1236 ($58M) Net assets 141 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 700 ($34M) Expenses 712 ($34M) Net assets 154 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 225 ($11M) Expenses 228 ($11M) Net assets 162 ($2.2M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (225)Expenses (228)Net assets (162)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $5.1M (+125%).

$1.6M
$2.1M
$1.8M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$5.1M
$3.8M
$4.0M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 95% · 2018 91% · 2019 88% · 2020 88% · 2021 79% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 98% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$102k
’17
$36k
’18
$35k
’19
$173k
’20
−$6k
’21
$229k
’22
$48k
’23
$127k
’24
$76k
’25
1.3
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

Stephanie Berglund

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed151516151415182320
Joined·+2+3+2+1+1+5+6+1
No longer listed·22320214
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $350k → $213k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Connection Inc DBA Thread’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 Connection Inc DBA Thread leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

65% 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 Connection Inc DBA Thread.

40%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 71% · 2019 75% · 2020 80% · 2021 45% · 2022 46% · 2023 59% — 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

56% of Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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

72% of Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread's grant income comes from Alaska funders.

AK
MI
CA
VA
KS
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread has grown faster than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread

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 Alaska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 8%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread?
Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread (Alaska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,892,576 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($1,144,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,892,576 in grants to Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread?
The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,144,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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