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CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE

CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,612 to it, the largest being CULLEN FOUNDATION ($37,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.4M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$67k
Net assets
$3.2M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Childcare Network of the Niagara Frontie does

Mission

Child care center management and operation of licensed daycare and after-school prgorams, along with other childcare related programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Establish, maintain and operate licensed daycare centers for children in new york state. Also, operate and manage childcare after-school programs, and other childcare related programs.

    $3,378,953 spent$4,018,630 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,378,953.

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 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($483k)2018 Revenue 122 ($2.9M) Expenses 119 ($2.7M) Net assets 135 ($652k)2019 Revenue 144 ($3.4M) Expenses 140 ($3.2M) Net assets 177 ($854k)2020 Revenue 73 ($1.7M) Expenses 97 ($2.2M) Net assets 75 ($363k)2021 Revenue 156 ($3.7M) Expenses 104 ($2.4M) Net assets 344 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 159 ($3.8M) Expenses 151 ($3.4M) Net assets 409 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 221 ($5.2M) Expenses 199 ($4.6M) Net assets 547 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 230 ($5.4M) Expenses 214 ($4.9M) Net assets 658 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (230)Expenses (214)Net assets (658)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 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $4.8M (+70%).

$769k
$885k
$1.0M
$685k
$1.8M
$2.1M
$2.8M
$4.8M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 47% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

23% of CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$71k
’17
$169k
’18
$202k
’19
−$491k
’20
$1.3M
’21
$312k
’22
$665k
’23
$537k
’24
8.1
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.

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Listed88888889
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5 → $30k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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

CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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

92% of CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY

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

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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve8.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Synergy Group of the Niagara Frontier · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE: 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 CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE?
CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,612 to it, the largest being CULLEN FOUNDATION ($37,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $66,612 in grants to CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE?
CULLEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDCARE NETWORK OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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