Missouri · Nonprofit
Downtown Childrens Center
Downtown Childrens Center (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,785 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($1,285). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Downtown Childrens Center does
Mission
To provide superior quality early childhood education utilizing Project Construct curriculum to meet the needs of diverse children and their families who live and/or work in the downtown St. Louis area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our early childhood program is designed to meet the diverse, individual needs of all children, ages 6 weeks to six years. We are very proud of our longstanding accreditation and partnership with the National Association for the Education of Young Children NAEYC. Our classrooms meet or are lower than state standards for child-to-teacher ratios, and our teaching staff is trained to utilize the nationally recognized curriculum of Project Construct. Due to small class sizes, highly qualified staff and hands-on learning, the school is able to offer differentiated instruction and care, which provides a nurturing enviornment that allows each child to develop skills and interests that enhance his or her's natural talents. The care and education we provide allows each child to build their social/emotional, cognitive, See Part III, Ln 4a statement
$2,750,010 spent$2,339,641 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,750,010.
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 2024 to 2025, from $858k to $455k (−47%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 17% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of Downtown Childrens Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $200 → $640.
From the IRS filings of Downtown Childrens 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
Downtown Childrens Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Downtown Childrens Center draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.
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
Downtown Childrens Center's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Downtown Childrens 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Downtown Childrens 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 Downtown Childrens Center?
- Downtown Childrens Center (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,785 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($1,285). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Downtown Childrens Center have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,785 in grants to Downtown Childrens Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Downtown Childrens Center?
- THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,285 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Downtown Childrens Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), 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