Georgia · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC
CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,686,483 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($675,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Children's Development Academy Inc does
Mission
Mission: affording all children in our community high quality early education. Vision: best start. Brightest future. Every child.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024-2025, the children's development academy (cda) provided high-quality, affordable early care and learning programs to more than 200 children from low-income families who otherwise would not have the opportunity to attend preschool. The cda serves preschool children ages 1 to 5, including three georgia pre-k classrooms. The cda employs full time, experienced and highly qualified teachers. Our low student-teacher ratios ensure that each student receives daily interaction and individualized instruction that studies have shown ensures positive outcomes when students reach kindergarten and beyond. The cda's primary objective is kindergarten readiness, and children entering our one year-old classroom today receive the foundation necessary for a stronger start in kindergarten at age five and of achieving the vital educational milestone of reading at the third grade level when they are eight. The cda follows evidence-based practices of quality early childhood education, early intervention, nutrition, and healthcare that support a child's intellectual development and academic success. The cda follows the play-based creative curriculum that promotes social/emotional, physical,…
$2,380,398 spent$410,796 earned by the program100% of program spendingSince 2010, the cda has offered three georgia pre-k classrooms that serve 60 children each year. In 2012, the cda was chosen for a six-week summer pilot program, the rising-k summer transition program, which served children deemed to be at risk of school failure without additional support for making the transition to kindergarten. The cda has worked with the state to offer this important summer transition program every year since, including 2024 and 2025. And, in the summer of 2013, the cda helped launch another bright from the start pilot program this one providing a six-week summer preparatory curriculum for english language learners entering pre-k in the fall. This rising pre-k summer transition program has been renewed by the state every year including 2024 and 2025. In 2025, the cda piloted a rising kindergarten summer camp to extend care for families into the summer once pre-k ends in may.
The cda continues to meet or exceed the national standards for early care and learning programs. We have maintained accreditation by the national association for the education of young children (naeyc) since april 2014, including our most recent reaccreditation in may 2024. Fewer than 4% of georgia's childcare centers are naeyc-accredited. Likewise, the cda has participated in georgia's bright from the start quality rated program since 2013, most recently receiving renewal in november 2024. Taken together, these accomplishments clearly set the cda apart as a center of high quality and demonstrate our commitment to working toward our vision of best start. Brightest future. Every child.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,380,398.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.5M to $2.9M (+16%).
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 46% · 2018 38% · 2019 40% · 2020 46% · 2021 65% · 2022 60% · 2023 54% · 2024 44% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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
Shelia Sillitto
CEO & ex.dir.
Board chair
Gloria Mattei
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $86k → $336k.
11 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 51% · 2019 57% · 2020 20% · 2021 81% · 2022 21% · 2023 74% — 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
38% of CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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 CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $349k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC?
- CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,686,483 to it, the largest being THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC ($675,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,686,483 in grants to CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC?
- THE GOIZUETA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing