Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING
CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,204 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ($169,544). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundationlocal
- Illinois Action for Childrenportfolio match
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio 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 33% · 2018 21% · 2019 43% · 2020 38% · 2021 56% · 2022 24% · 2023 38% · 2024 17% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $92k → $9k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone FoundationlocalDE · funds 89 organizations near you
- Illinois Action for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orchard Placeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Day Care Council of New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- River Valley Child Development Services Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholar Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Coordinated Child Care Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prevent Child Abuse- New Jersey Chapter Incportfolio 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 CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Chambliss Center for Children · exempt
- Maurice Kirby Day Care Center · exempt
- Newton Child Development Center · exempt
- Pro Re Bona Day Nursery · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING: 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 CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING?
- CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,204 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ($169,544). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $196,204 in grants to CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA is the largest funder on record, with $169,544 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing