Washington · Nonprofit
Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens
Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,145 to it, the largest being HARNISH FOUNDATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $302k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens does
Mission
The Children's Center is committed to helping children of all backgrounds grow into enthusiastic, kind and confident learners by providing a broad curriculum designed to enhance their social, physical and cognitive development. The Children's Center offers a nurturing environment, an excellent staff, and an innovative program to meet the needs of children, families, and our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Children's Center (TCC) is committed to helping children grow into enthusiastic, kind, and confident learners by providing a broad curriculum designed to enhance their social, physical, and cognitive development. With our innovative program and nurturing environment, we strive to make a positive impact on the lives of our families and those in our community. TCC opened in 1998 to provide inclusive childcare and early learning programs for the community. We prioritize families experiencing homelessness or living in transitional housing, families with foster children, families living in Burke Gilman Gardens and other subsidized housing in the PDA area in which we are located, immigrant and refugee families, and children with disabilities. We offer free respite care for families in crisis, and partner with several local agencies to provide these services. We place no limit on enrollment for families receiving childcare subsidies and offer additional private scholarships for families in need.
$1,429,779 spentof which $90,977 as grants$1,572,691 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,429,779.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $4.5M (+275%).
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 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 21% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Jennifer Kelty
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $63k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens 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
26% 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 Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 55% · 2023 64% — 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
17% of Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 22% 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
Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 611 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens: 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 Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens?
- Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,145 to it, the largest being HARNISH FOUNDATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $302,145 in grants to Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens?
- HARNISH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Childrens Center at Burke Gilman Gardens find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 9 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