Colorado · Nonprofit
EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC
EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $757,119 to it, the largest being TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION ($590,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $532k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $757k
- Net assets
- $387k
What Early Childhood Council of la Plata County Inc does
Mission
The council's mission is to support families by increasing the availability, accessibility, and reliability of affordable, high quality, comprehensive services for all young children and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Through a coalition of 23 dedicated partners from 18 community organizations working together to create a high quality, comprehensive, early childhood system, and the various resources and services provided by the council, some recent achievements included: --distribution of 26,783 in quality improvement funding and 41,937 in childcare expansion funding to eligible childcare providers; --support of 3 childcare programs to achieve and maintain a colorado shines high-quality rating; --provided 188 coaching hours to professionals in 12 licensed childcare programs; --school readiness program facilitated 24 school readiness workshops and 6 parent education sessions across 4 different community libraries to increase awareness of the domains of school readiness. --early childhood mental health consultants have supported more than 1,800 hours of consultation for 68 classrooms in 24 licensed early care centers, home childcare providers, head start, and early head start programs. --agency website supporting career advisement, job postings, childcare quality, and early learning developmental guidelines received over 4,750 visits this fiscal year.
$577,061 spentof which $72,719 as grants$6,140 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $577,061.
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 2023 to 2024, from $397k to $491k (+24%).
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 75% · 2018 61% · 2019 62% · 2020 57% · 2021 60% · 2022 61% · 2023 71% · 2024 63% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY 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 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 broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $38k → $131k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY 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
EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 2023 80% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 2 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
97% of EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k 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 COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC?
- EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $757,119 to it, the largest being TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION ($590,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $757,119 in grants to EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC?
- TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $590,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 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