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CHILDCARE RESOURCES

CHILDCARE RESOURCES (Alabama) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,750,702 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($4,815,753). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.3M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
$390k
26/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Childcare Resources does

Mission

Childcare Resources' mission is to make quality care and education of children happen by providing information, education and assistance to families, providers of child care and the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Head start - provides quality educational and comprehensive services to young children and their families through community partnerships that promote school readiness, healthy family engagement and developmental services.

    $7,245,195 spent
    84% of program spending
  2. Training and technical assistance - training sessions, courses and conferences are offered for providers to assist them in meeting the needs of children in their care. Technical assistance is available to current and potential providers looking to improve the quality of care being provided, open a new child care program or seek cda or national accreditation.

    $801,864 spent$13,366 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  3. Supplemental child care program (sccp) - assists eligible working parents with children birth to age five (prior to kindergarten entry) with paying for the cost of child care.

    $176,253 spentof which $87,787 as grants
    2% of program spending
  4. Infant toddler program

    $137,847 spent
    2% of program spending
  5. Rise program

    $108,737 spent
    1% of program spending
  6. Early learning resource van center

    $81,329 spent
    1% of program spending
  7. Resource and referral program

    $73,004 spent
    1% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,624,229.

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 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($426k)2018 Revenue 88 ($1.5M) Expenses 97 ($1.5M) Net assets 108 ($459k)2019 Revenue 93 ($1.6M) Expenses 106 ($1.7M) Net assets 104 ($444k)2020 Revenue 123 ($2.2M) Expenses 128 ($2.0M) Net assets 136 ($578k)2021 Revenue 350 ($6.2M) Expenses 401 ($6.3M) Net assets 99 ($422k)2022 Revenue 439 ($7.7M) Expenses 488 ($7.7M) Net assets 107 ($455k)2023 Revenue 469 ($8.3M) Expenses 529 ($8.4M) Net assets 86 ($368k)2024 Revenue 517 ($9.1M) Expenses 577 ($9.1M) Net assets 86 ($368k)2025 Revenue 526 ($9.3M) Expenses 585 ($9.2M) Net assets 92 ($390k)
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Revenue (526)Expenses (585)Net assets (92)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 2022 to 2023, from $765k to $1.5M (+94%).

$511k
$509k
$500k
$1.0M
$774k
$765k
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.3M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 31% · 2019 35% · 2020 52% · 2021 84% · 2022 85% · 2023 88% · 2024 89% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of CHILDCARE RESOURCES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$183k
’17
$4k
’18
−$33k
’19
$134k
’20
−$156k
’21
$33k
’22
−$85k
’23
$10
’24
$23k
’25
0.4
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.

Chief executive

Joan Wright

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed293127313232282831
Joined·+5+4+13+5+5+7+5+8
No longer listed·389451155
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $749k → $629k.

9 of 37 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 CHILDCARE RESOURCES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 RESOURCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

95% 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 CHILDCARE RESOURCES.

84%
largest funder
90%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 85% · 2019 76% · 2020 86% · 2021 85% · 2022 87% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.

“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

52% of CHILDCARE RESOURCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 CHILDCARE RESOURCES's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

MN
NY
AL
FL

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

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHILDCARE RESOURCES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding CHILDCARE RESOURCES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $54.1M on record.

Federal$54.1M
grants $54.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$54.1M

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 CHILDCARE RESOURCES

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 Alabama

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 4%Fundraising 3%

Governance

30
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDCARE RESOURCES: 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 RESOURCES?
CHILDCARE RESOURCES (Alabama) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,750,702 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($4,815,753). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDCARE RESOURCES have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,750,702 in grants to CHILDCARE RESOURCES, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDCARE RESOURCES?
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,815,753 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDCARE RESOURCES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 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