South Dakota · Nonprofit
COMPASSION CHILD CARE
COMPASSION CHILD CARE (South Dakota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,337,125 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($5,989,098). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Compassion Child Care does
Mission
We exist to strengthen working-poor families so they can experience the fullness of god's love through jesus christ. With your help we can make a difference.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Compassion Child Care was founded to provide daycare for families in need where they can experience the compassion of god and hear the good news of jesus christ. The organization uses every aspect of the daycare program (art, music, language, etc.) to share the good news of jesus christ. The organization strives to treat all children with the dignity, equality, and respect they deserve as children created in the image of god. Low-income families often struggle with affordable care and traditional daycare hours of operation. The organization offers lower income working families the means to access certified, comprehensive childcare at a price that enables them to stabilize their overall financial life. Continued on schedule o.each family pays a weekly tuition amount that is determined by reviewing their income and debt. Each family meets with a staff member and a board member each year to review their tuition and determine the appropriate amount to pay. Daycare is available monday through friday from 6:30 a.m. To 6:30 p.m. Age-appropriate educational programs and set development goals are offered for each child. These goals are communicated to parents regularly. Additionally,…
$2,030,758 spent$521,536 earned by the program85% of program spendingOne of Compassion Child Care's core values is being family focused. That core value drives a program for single mothers where the organization operates a home. A total of 6 mothers and 10 children were served in 2024. The house managers build relationships with the mothers and provide a stable influence in their lives. Each mother pays $300 a month to live in the home and they get a portion of that back if they live in the home for one year. The children of the mothers must be enrolled in the daycare in order for moms to qualify for this program.
$337,228 spent$17,247 earned by the program14% of program spendingOne of Compassion Child Care's core values is being family focused, and therefore all families are required to attend a three week resource class. Each family attended the three week resource classes and chose classes that were appropriate for them such as parenting, budgeting, understanding preschool curriculum, health insurance, or car buying. Each family completed class assignments to help them put into practice the things taught. The classes provided an opportunity for each family to review their current budget, health insurance coverage, and car needs.
$14,668 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,382,654.
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 2019 to 2020, from $429k to $1.0M (+134%).
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 2% · 2021 10% · 2022 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of COMPASSION CHILD CARE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Rich Merkouris
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $462k → $1.1M.
9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 COMPASSION CHILD CARE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
COMPASSION CHILD CARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 COMPASSION CHILD CARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 83% · 2021 68% · 2022 66% · 2023 75% — 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
71% of COMPASSION CHILD CARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
89% of COMPASSION CHILD CARE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $836k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
COMPASSION CHILD CARE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMPASSION CHILD CARE
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMPASSION CHILD CARE?
- COMPASSION CHILD CARE (South Dakota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,337,125 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($5,989,098). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMPASSION CHILD CARE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $7,337,125 in grants to COMPASSION CHILD CARE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASSION CHILD CARE?
- SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,989,098 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASSION CHILD CARE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 18 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