Montana · Nonprofit
CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC
CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC (Montana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $772,437 to it, the largest being CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA ($180,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $659k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $772k
- Net assets
- $0
What Child Care Connections Inc does
Mission
Child care connections advocates for the well-being and quality care of children by supporting early childhood professionals, families, and the community we serve through: financial assistance for child care, nutrition education, early childhood education, and tech support for child care providers, safety programs, family and community outreach, professional development for early childhood professionals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Only transition services were provided in fiscal year 2025. The oganization was staffed through december 31,2024, before the process of liquidation began. $16,660 in gap scholarships were awarded to help families with childcare costs. $53,793 in childcare provider awards were distributed. $347,508 was transferred to helena and bozeman 501 (c) (3) organizations to fund gap scholarships and early learning programs.
$594,607 spentof which $420,780 as grants$4,561 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $594,607.
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 2024 to 2025, from $877k to $0 (−100%).
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 96% · 2018 96% · 2019 92% · 2020 95% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 63% · 2024 82% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Tori Sproles
Executive director
Board chair
Dean Williamson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $2k → $174k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 CONNECTIONS 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 CONNECTIONS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
58% 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 CONNECTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 70% · 2020 43% · 2021 42% · 2022 57% · 2023 29% — 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
23% of CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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 CONNECTIONS INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 CONNECTIONS 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 CONNECTIONS INC?
- CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC (Montana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $772,437 to it, the largest being CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA ($180,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $772,437 in grants to CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC?
- CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 21 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