Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC
CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,786,543 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ($1,158,755). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Child Care Resource & Referral Inc does
Mission
To ensure positive beginnings for all young children and their families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Head start provides community based child and family developmentprogramming for families living in olmsted, freeborn, and winonacounties. Head start focuses on preparing pregnant women and youngchildren from birth to 5 years old, and their families, for asuccessful future. Essential information, training and services areprovided so parents are able to build a better life for their children and fulfill their role as the primary educator of their children. Theccr&r head start program operates at eleven (11) locations throughoutolmsted, freeborn, and winona counties.
$9,309,978 spent$9,271,720 earned by the program42% of program spendingChild care aware of mn southern district provides early childhoodtraining, start up services under the wayfinder program, professional development advising, startup, regional, and emergency grants, along with parent aware services to regions 9 and 10 consisting of 20 counties in southern minnesota. We serve family child care programs, and child care centers and with a grant from dcyf also serve family, friend, and neighbor and legal non-licensed providers. Child care aware of minnesota southern district successfully held 203 trainings across 20 counties in 2025. Trainings consist of licensing required health and safety trainings and parent aware knowledge and competency framework based trainings. In 28 counties across minnesota families first administers the early learning scholarship program. Awarded families use the scholarships for their child(ren) to attend high-quality child care and early education programs to ensure your child enters kindergarten ready to succeed. The scholarship money is paid directly to the program of your choice that is participating in parent aware. Parent aware is minnesota's rating tool that recognizes programs offering services above the required…
$12,099,223 spentof which $9,024,874 as grants$13,449,102 earned by the program55% of program spendingChild care resource & referral also offers crisis nursery and school readiness. Olmsted county funds the crisis nursery, which is a child abuse prevention and family support program that provides temporary, short-term care for children in olmsted county while families address a crisis situation. Rochester public schools school readiness allow children 3 years old to kindergarten in the rochester area to participate in early childhood programs and services that enable them to enter school with the skills and behavior needed for them to progress and flourish.
$657,876 spent$552,161 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,067,077.
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 2018 to 2019, from $5.2M to $9.2M (+78%).
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 94% · 2018 95% · 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Kristin Quenzer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $223k → $137k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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 RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 81% · 2019 77% · 2020 33% · 2021 39% · 2022 50% · 2023 74% — 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
43% of CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
97% of CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL 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. $189k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC has grown faster than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $66.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$66.3M
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 RESOURCE & REFERRAL 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
94% 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 RESOURCE & REFERRAL 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 RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC?
- CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,786,543 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA ($1,158,755). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,786,543 in grants to CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $1,158,755 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL 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 2017–2024), 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