Indiana · Nonprofit
DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC
DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $649,090 to it, the largest being EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC ($439,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $331k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $649k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Delaware County By5 Early Childhood Initiative Inc does
Mission
The vision of by5 is to revitalize our community so it can thrive long term. Our mission is to transform our community by connecting kindergarten readiness to economic success.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Delaware county by5 early childhood initiative promotes childhood awareness in muncie and delaware county, indiana through a variety of task force and volunteer efforts. Programs to improve opportunities for children aged 0-5 to reach their developmental potential include facilitating the little free libraries program in the community, safe children programs, ready set read programs, child developement screening, and organized nature walks.
$155,337 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $155,337.
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 2020 to 2021, from $16k to $4k (−75%).
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.
98% of DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $18k → $74k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 100% · 2023 74% — 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
97% of DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC's grant income comes from Indiana 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.
Against its field
DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Community Foundation of Muncie · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC: 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 DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC?
- DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $649,090 to it, the largest being EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC ($439,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $649,090 in grants to DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC?
- EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC is the largest funder on record, with $439,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE COUNTY BY5 EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 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