Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,635 to it, the largest being THE CPMG FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10.0M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Early Childhood Academy Public Charter School does
Mission
It is the mission of Early Childhood Academy Public Charter School to foster the academic and social/emotional growth and development of each student in a safe and holistic learning environment that will equip all students with the knowledge and tools to become high achievers, proficient readers, and critical thinkers who will thrive for a lifetime as productive and caring citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Educational approach eca has a strong curricular focus on language and literacy, given the tremendous impact of early language development on nearly all other aspects of academic growth. Instruction is based on the early learning standards for prekindergarten and on the english language arts and math common core state standards for kindergarten through grade three. Early Childhood Academy Public Charter School has selected the appletree institute for education innovations every child ready program as its instructional tool for pre-kindergarten and the hmh into reading, into math, and into science programs for kindergarten to grade three. Social studies instruction is provided based on the district of columbia social studies standards. Every child ready is an evidence-based, comprehensive, preschool instructional model that drives what to teach, how to teach, and how to tell children are learning. Every child ready is currently implemented in 4 states or districts across the u.s. Appletree institute implements a research-to-practice model to inform revisions to the model to support children, teachers and leaders. Hmh into reading instruction is implemented in accordance with the…
$8,091,386 spent$8,952,591 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,091,386.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6.3M to $25M (+298%).
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 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 19% · 2020 7% · 2021 12% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% · 2024 16% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $40.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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 CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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
100% of EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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 CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Eca Support Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,635 to it, the largest being THE CPMG FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $56,635 in grants to EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- THE CPMG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 4 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