Virginia · Nonprofit
Connections Early Learning Center
Connections Early Learning Center (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,212 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($95,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $795k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $125k
- Net assets
- $456k
What Connections Early Learning Center does
Mission
Connections Early Learning Center provides licensed full-day care and education for infants toddlers and preschoolers as well as programming and academic support for elementary-aged children before and after school with full-day programming in the summer. Our professional staff and volunteers support childrens personal development school readiness and educational success through guided exploration meaningful play and structured group experiences. Our teachers create developmentally appropriate projects that reflect childrens interests stimulate their excitement in learning and promote collaboration and communication. We work collaboratively with families to share knowledge of the childs development at school and at home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Connections Early Learning Center provides licensed full-day care and education for infants toddlers and preschoolers as well as programming and academic support for elementary-aged children before and after school with full-day programming in the summer. Our professional staff and volunteers support childrens personal development school readiness and educational success through guided exploration meaningful play and structured group experiences. Our teachers create developmentally appropriate projects that reflect childrens interests stimulate their excitement in learning and promote collaboration and communication. We work collaboratively with families to share knowledge of the childs development at school and at home.
$578,805 spentof which $13,230 as grants$692,661 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $578,805.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $171k to $387k (+126%).
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: 2023 22% · 2024 11% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of Connections Early Learning Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
David Burchfield
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Connections 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
Connections Early Learning Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Connections Early Learning Center.
“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
76% of Connections Early Learning Center'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Connections Early Learning Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Connections 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Connections 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 Connections Early Learning Center?
- Connections Early Learning Center (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,212 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($95,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Connections Early Learning Center have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $125,212 in grants to Connections Early Learning Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Connections Early Learning Center?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connections Early Learning Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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