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CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS

CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $562,785 to it, the largest being THE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ($458,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$288k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$563k
Net assets
$1.2M
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Childrens Education Center of the Islands does

Mission

Children's education center of the islands (ceci) is a nonprofit school for children ages 12 months through 5 years. Ceci creates a nurturing, exciting learning environment that creates happy, curious, confident children.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide schooling for children ages 12 months through 5 years.

    $378,031 spent$238,411 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $378,031.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($229k) Expenses 100 ($269k) Net assets 100 ($291k)2019 Revenue 111 ($253k) Expenses 100 ($269k) Net assets 96 ($278k)2020 Revenue 73 ($167k) Expenses 87 ($233k) Net assets 73 ($214k)2021 Revenue 177 ($406k) Expenses 93 ($250k) Net assets 127 ($369k)2022 Revenue 206 ($472k) Expenses 113 ($304k) Net assets 183 ($531k)2023 Revenue 378 ($866k) Expenses 113 ($304k) Net assets 374 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 295 ($675k) Expenses 172 ($462k) Net assets 448 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 126 ($288k) Expenses 156 ($420k) Net assets 402 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (156)Net assets (402)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $598k to $1.1M (+82%).

$306k
$281k
$253k
$433k
$598k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.2M
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 30% · 2023 9% · 2024 53% · 2025 4%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$40k
’18
−$16k
’19
−$66k
’20
$156k
’21
$168k
’22
$562k
’23
$213k
’24
−$132k
’25
10
months of
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.

'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed5599911129
Joined·+2+7+5+5+8+4+4
No longer listed·2355637
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $35k → $15k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS’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 EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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 EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS.

81%
largest funder
92%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 81% · 2021 66% · 2022 73% · 2023 66% — 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

25% of CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

91% of CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS's grant income comes from Florida funders.

MN
IL
MA
OH
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 9%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS: 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 EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS?
CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $562,785 to it, the largest being THE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ($458,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $562,785 in grants to CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS?
THE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $458,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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