Illinois · Nonprofit
Children First
Children First (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being MCCUNE FAMILY FOUNDATION UNDER AGREEMENT ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $300k
- Net assets
- $443
What Children First does
Mission
Our child care mission is to reach teach and empower children and their families by providing quality christian child care to the pike county area. We provide a wide range of developmentally appropriate learning opportunities for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years in order to help them to develop and grow physically intellectually socially emotionally and spiritually while also learning the communication skills necessary for daily interactions. Due to the effects of covid Children First ceased operations december 18 2020 but we did not dissolve the entity due to our hope to resume operations in the future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We provide a wide range of developmentally appropriate learning opportunities for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years in order to help them to develop and grow physically intellectually socially emotionally and spiritually while also learning the communication skills necessary for daily interactions.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 2020 to 2021, from $21k to $1k (−95%).
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.
0% of Children First’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $50k.
From the IRS filings of Children First’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Children First's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Children First's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Children First
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 Children First: 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 Children First?
- Children First (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being MCCUNE FAMILY FOUNDATION UNDER AGREEMENT ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Children First have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300,000 in grants to Children First, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Children First?
- MCCUNE FAMILY FOUNDATION UNDER AGREEMENT is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children First find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 1 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