New York · Nonprofit
EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL
EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,704,302 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($1,430,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Early Care and Learning Council does
Mission
Early care & learning council is the coordinating agency for the new york state child care resource & referral (ccr&r) network. We elevate the voices of the ccr&rs, and advocate for a quality, affordable, equitable early care and education system. Eclc offers training and professional development to ccr&rs and delivers innovative curricula that supports the building of sustainable child care systems throughout the state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child care resource & referral agency (ccr&r) component plan is to provide statewide support through technical assistance and training to strengthen the network of child care resource and referral agencies. Target audiences include ccr&r staff, specifically ccr&r administrators, trainers, infant/toddler specialists, infant/toddler mental health consultants and data mangers. For the trainer audience, the focus is on serving child care centers in improving management practices and building the capacity of the cc&r to deliver services. Services offered to the infant/toddler specialists specifically target issues surrounding the development and implementation of outcome based service delivery and the dissemination of information from the ten components of quality infant/toddler care. Services to all audiences include workshops, technical assistance visits, seminars, regional trainings, and other activities designed to increase participants' knowledge and skill on presented topics.
$4,047,272 spent90% of program spendingThe business navigator, a child care toolkit for employers in new york state is created as a resource for businesses across the state to better support their employees in aligning work responsibilities and caregiving needs. Eclc will publish print and digital versions of the toolkit and an interactive child care mapping resource for nys employers. Eclc will introduce the published toolkit in a public rollout to businesses across the state through 3 webinars followed by 10 live launches across all regional economic development council (redc) regions of the state. This work shall be created and launched by partnering with 10 lead ccr&rsone in each of the redc regions, and with the support of several outside consultants who lend expertise in the following areas: tax credits, economic development, publicity, digital toolkit content, and mapping.
$264,670 spent6% of program spendingThe early care & learning council (eclc) serves as a statewide membership organization representing child care resource centers (ccr&rs). Through membership dues, ccr&rs support eclc's work in advocacy, coordination, and system-building efforts that strengthen the early care and learning infrastructure across new york state. These activities include policy advocacy, member support, and initiatives designed to improve access to and the quality of child care services. Eclc hosts an annual meeting to convene its members and key stakeholders, including ccr&rs, child care providers, and partners across the early care and learning system. The meeting provides opportunities to share updates, discuss policy and funding priorities, and exchange best practices to support the statewide child care network. Eclc also hosts an annual leadership summit focused on recognizing contributions within the child care sector and providing updates on policy, research, and system initiatives. The event brings together leaders and stakeholders to support collaboration, share information, and strengthen the overall early care and learning system in new york state.
$187,275 spent4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$22,757 spent$94,765 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,521,974.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $326k to $1.1M (+237%).
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 81% · 2018 82% · 2019 91% · 2020 94% · 2021 92% · 2022 88% · 2023 83% · 2024 87% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Meredith M Chimento
Executive director
Board chair
Jennifer Rojas
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $82k → $6k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL’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
EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 82% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187 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.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL?
- EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,704,302 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($1,430,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,704,302 in grants to EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY CARE AND LEARNING COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 8 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