Arizona · Nonprofit
CHILD PARENT CENTERS
CHILD PARENT CENTERS (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,040 to it, the largest being United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ($371,845). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $545k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Child Parent Centers does
Mission
We deliver head start and related programs throughout southeastern az for prenatal through preschool aged children and their families. The focus of our work is: early childhood education & school readiness; health & nutrition; and parent engagement & family development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Child-parent centers (cpc) administers the head start and early head start programs with grants from the united states department of health and human services and serves more than 2,100 children each year. We directly operate 40 centers in 5 southeastern arizona counties and partner with community providers in 20 additional locations. Cpc employs approximately 560+ professionals and has an annual budget of more than $32 million. Cpc has demonstrated its commitment to high quality services for 50+ years and has been recognized for its highly successful federal monitoring reviews, fiscal audits, and programmatic philosophy and center environments.
$40,895,042 spent$3,189 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $40,895,042.
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 2023 to 2024, from $22M to $19M (−14%).
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 102% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHILD PARENT CENTERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Erin Lyons
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $160k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 PARENT CENTERS’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 PARENT CENTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 PARENT CENTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 54% · 2022 99% · 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.
Where its funders are
68% of CHILD PARENT CENTERS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $173k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 PARENT CENTERS has grown faster than half of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CHILD PARENT CENTERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $337.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$337.5M
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 PARENT CENTERS
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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 PARENT CENTERS: 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 PARENT CENTERS?
- CHILD PARENT CENTERS (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,040 to it, the largest being United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ($371,845). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILD PARENT CENTERS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $545,040 in grants to CHILD PARENT CENTERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD PARENT CENTERS?
- United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc is the largest funder on record, with $371,845 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD PARENT CENTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 5 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