Ohio · Nonprofit
CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC
CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,629,213 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($920,707). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Harry C Moores Foundationshared funderslocal
- Lena Foundationportfolio match
- Start Earlyportfolio match
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.
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 56% · 2018 46% · 2019 50% · 2020 66% · 2021 60% · 2022 65% · 2023 12% · 2024 53% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $360k → $543k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Childhood League Center New School Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
92% 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 CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 54% · 2019 69% · 2020 33% · 2021 30% · 2022 32% · 2023 41% — 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
50% of CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 32 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Harry C Moores Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 117 organizations that share your funders · funds 174 organizations near you
- Lena Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Start Earlyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mdrcportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dodge Family Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Center for Families Learning Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parentchild Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bright Promises Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Care Aware of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parents as Teachers National Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edith Glick Shoolman Children's Foundation C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Los Angeles Universal Preschoolportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDHOOD LEAGUE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC?
- CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,629,213 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($920,707). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $3,629,213 in grants to CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC?
- THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $920,707 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 32funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing