North Carolina · Nonprofit
Early Beginnings
Early Beginnings (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $306 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($306). 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 FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $306
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Early Beginnings does
Mission
To provide an environment in which children can grow emotionally, cognitively and physically all within a Christian atmosphere, and partner with their families and the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Early Beginnings is a five star Child Development Center located in the heart of the Mountain Island Lake Community. Built in 2005 our facility offers large classrooms, indoor and outdoor recreation areas, live web cameras for parents, and a fun, light environment. We believe that a Child Development Center should be an extension of your family. The goal of our center is not simply to provide child care but to provide an environment in which children can grow emotionally, cognitively, and physically all within a Christian atmosphere.The Preschool Center opened in 2005 and in our years of operation we have become a five star facility ranking seven out of seven in education. At the preschool we have an extensive pre-kindergarten program that encompasses literacy, math, science, arts, music, writing, computers, Spanish and communication.
$2,115,398 spent$2,782,603 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,115,398.
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 $2.1M to $2.4M (+13%).
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 8% · 2024 8% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of Early Beginnings’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $225 → $81.
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 Early Beginnings’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 Early Beginnings'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. $306 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
Early Beginnings runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Early Beginnings
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Early Beginnings: 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 Early Beginnings?
- Early Beginnings (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $306 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($306). 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 Early Beginnings have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $306 in grants to Early Beginnings, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Early Beginnings?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $306 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Early Beginnings find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing