Alaska · Nonprofit
Clare Swan Early Learning Center
Clare Swan Early Learning Center (Alaska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,173 to it, the largest being Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread ($367,738). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $411k
- Net assets
- $0
What Clare Swan Early Learning Center does
Mission
Clare Swan Early Learning Center is honored to partner with our community to help our children and their families become strong and healthy. We are honored to serve alaska native and american indian children ages 6 weeks to 36 months (3 years) of age. Classrooms feature a one-to-four teacher-children ratio for quality, focusedlearning.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
On September 27, 2024 CSELCs Board of Directors voted unanimously to dissolve the organization. The Board of Directors determined dissolution was in the best interest of CSELC to maximize funding available for direct services to participants and increase operational efficiencies. All operations at CSELC ceased on September 30, 2024. The early learning center will continue to operate as a department within CITC. Subsequently, all property, such as furniture, supplies, electronics, and systems, and all intellectual property, such as trademarks and copy rights were transferred to CITC.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Combining the strengths of the early head start educational model, the Clare Swan Early Learning Center provides for the needs of working families beyond simple child care. Over 30 staff members come together to implement the research-based early head start curriculum that emphasizes the importance of responsive and caring relationships to support the optimal development of infants and toddlers. This is a critical component of our program. Clare Swan Early Learning Center also provides child development information and performs periodic assessments to track children's development through their stages of growth. Our center encourages families to participate in their child's education as well as supporting our families' goals.
$5,019,050 spentof which $116,919 as grants$939,346 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,019,050.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $142k to $1.2M (+740%).
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: 2020 19% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 24% · 2024 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. 2 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
John Estabrook Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $247k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $15M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cook Inlet Tribal Council). These are real filings, and they are not money Clare Swan Early Learning Center raised.
From the IRS filings of Clare Swan Early Learning Center’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
Clare Swan Early Learning Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 Clare Swan Early Learning Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 98% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Clare Swan Early Learning Center's grant income comes from Alaska 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.
Government funding Clare Swan Early Learning Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.1M on record.
- Department of Education$3.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Clare Swan Early Learning Center
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cook Inlet Tribal Council · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Clare Swan Early Learning Center: 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 Clare Swan Early Learning Center?
- Clare Swan Early Learning Center (Alaska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,173 to it, the largest being Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread ($367,738). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Clare Swan Early Learning Center have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $411,173 in grants to Clare Swan Early Learning Center, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Clare Swan Early Learning Center?
- Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread is the largest funder on record, with $367,738 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Clare Swan Early Learning Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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