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CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC

CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($10). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$980k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10
Net assets
$538k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Creative Beginnings Child Development Center Inc does

Mission

Creative beginnings child development center is dedicated to providing high quality early childhood care and education by creating a safe, nurturing environment in which children develop a positive self image, a love of learning, meaningful relationships with people in their community, and a practical sense of the world around them.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation of a child care center in mount pleasant, michigan. Provide a safe and educational setting for pre-school age children with developmentally appropriate activities and nutritious meal programs.

    $820,832 spent$478,558 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $820,832.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($987k) Net assets 100 ($176k)2018 Revenue 90 ($918k) Expenses 100 ($982k) Net assets 56 ($98k)2019 Revenue 86 ($887k) Expenses 97 ($959k) Net assets 15 ($26k)2020 Revenue 74 ($754k) Expenses 66 ($650k) Net assets 74 ($130k)2021 Revenue 97 ($994k) Expenses 93 ($917k) Net assets 118 ($207k)2022 Revenue 157 ($1.6M) Expenses 119 ($1.2M) Net assets 365 ($642k)2023 Revenue 78 ($802k) Expenses 96 ($943k) Net assets 285 ($501k)2024 Revenue 96 ($980k) Expenses 96 ($943k) Net assets 306 ($538k)
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Revenue (96)Expenses (96)Net assets (306)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $689k to $1.2M (+68%).

$651k
$588k
$515k
$597k
$689k
$1.2M
$1.0M
$1.0M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 11% · 2019 9% · 2020 46% · 2021 28% · 2022 54% · 2023 28% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

51% of CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$39k
’17
−$64k
’18
−$72k
’19
$104k
’20
$77k
’21
$434k
’22
−$141k
’23
$37k
’24
6.7
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.

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Listed54444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5.

Funder
'20
'23
total
funders
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve6.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($10). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10 in grants to CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CREATIVE BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 1 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