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EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,410 to it, the largest being EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC ($451,018). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.1M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$463k
Net assets
$3.2M
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Early Childhood Development Center Univerty of Nd does

Mission

To provide a school learning environment and early childhood development services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Preparing children for school education, while maintaining longvity and top quality educators for our day care programs.

    $3,168,099 spent$4,130,260 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,168,099.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 102 ($2.6M) Expenses 101 ($2.2M) Net assets 109 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 110 ($2.8M) Expenses 111 ($2.5M) Net assets 114 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 97 ($2.4M) Expenses 116 ($2.6M) Net assets 91 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 93 ($2.3M) Expenses 104 ($2.3M) Net assets 95 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 164 ($4.1M) Expenses 119 ($2.6M) Net assets 213 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 131 ($3.3M) Expenses 133 ($2.9M) Net assets 238 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 143 ($3.6M) Expenses 139 ($3.1M) Net assets 262 ($3.0M)2025 Revenue 164 ($4.1M) Expenses 162 ($3.6M) Net assets 286 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (164)Expenses (162)Net assets (286)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $3.1M (+47%).

$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$1.6M
$2.1M
$3.1M
$2.9M
$3.2M
$4.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 22% · 2022 33% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

25% of EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$296k
’17
$324k
’18
$315k
’19
−$144k
’20
$40k
’21
$1.5M
’22
$360k
’23
$510k
’24
$537k
’25
4.3
months of
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

Kari Alford

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161718191818181819
Joined·+3+7+1+5+4+0+4+1
No longer listed·26064040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $300 → $314.

Funder
'17
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
3
2
3
1

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND’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 DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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

100% 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 CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 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 DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

NY
IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.

Federal$1.5M
grants $1.5Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND

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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • University of Notre Dame · exempt
  • Saint Marys College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND?
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,410 to it, the largest being EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC ($451,018). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $463,410 in grants to EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND?
EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC is the largest funder on record, with $451,018 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER UNIVERTY OF ND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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