Missouri · Nonprofit
CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN
CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,575,942 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($6,577,815). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Child Day Care Association of St Louis D/B/A United 4 Children does
Mission
United 4 children meets caregivers where they are to assess their programs, train, coach, and support them with the knowledge and skills necessary to ensure that children feel safe, are nourished, and are nurtured with social and emotional and inclusive services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child and adult care food programs: united 4 children is the largest sponsoring agency, through a contract with the missouri department of health and senior services, for the child and adult care food program of the united states department of agriculture (usda). This program encourages healthy nutrition by educating home childcare providers and reimbursing them for healthy meals served. United 4 children is reimbursed for its program management and administrative expenses by usda funding, administered by the missouri department of health and senior services.
$2,526,967 spent$2,498,367 earned by the program47% of program spendingQuality services: united 4 children receives contract payments to implement services that improve access and quality of early chilhdood education in the state of missouri. The early care & education resource & referral network services ensures that families can find high quality child care that meets their needs, educates families on what to look for in quality programs, and how to find resources that help their families thrive. The child care collaborative network program provides child care programs classroom evaluations, training, and coaching to ensure that educators and programs are providing high quality care to children and families. The program achieving quality program provides evaluations, training, and coaching to child care programs in the normandy 24:1 footprint. The social emotional early childhood program teaches child care programs strategies to address challenging behaviors in classroom environments before kindergarten in the state of missouri.
$2,492,536 spentof which $16,250 as grants$3,044,756 earned by the program47% of program spendingInclusion services: united 4 children receives contract payments to implement child care inclusion services that improve access and quality of early childhood education programs serving children with challenging behaviors or special needs. Inclusion services ensure families can find child care for their children with challenging behaviors or special needs while providing training and consultation to child care providers so that they can develop best practices for inclusive care in the state of missouri.
$301,347 spent$331,084 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,320,850.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $2.5M (+51%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Deanna Finch
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $90k → $524k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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 DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2019 48% · 2020 54% · 2021 65% · 2022 84% · 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
13% of CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
98% of CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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 DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN?
- CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,575,942 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($6,577,815). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $7,575,942 in grants to CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN?
- AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with $6,577,815 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 15 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