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EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $762,981 to it, the largest being United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ($762,756). 2 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 FY2023
$48k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$763k
Net assets
$59k
2/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Early Childhood Development Group does

Mission

To provide early childhood education professional development training, program materials and resources and coordinating volunteer opportunities

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Professional development for early childhood education staff early childhood teacher training

    $36,536 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $36,536.

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 ($181k) Expenses 100 ($178k) Net assets 100 ($25k)2018 Revenue 86 ($156k) Expenses 83 ($147k) Net assets 136 ($34k)2019 Revenue 87 ($157k) Expenses 81 ($144k) Net assets 190 ($48k)2020 Revenue 81 ($147k) Expenses 85 ($152k) Net assets 170 ($43k)2021 Revenue 78 ($141k) Expenses 83 ($147k) Net assets 146 ($37k)2022 Revenue 77 ($139k) Expenses 72 ($128k) Net assets 191 ($48k)2023 Revenue 26 ($48k) Expenses 21 ($37k) Net assets 236 ($59k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (26)Expenses (21)Net assets (236)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 2018 to 2019, from $34k to $48k (+39%).

$25k
$34k
$48k
$43k
$37k
$48k
$59k
2017201820192020202120222023
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
$9k
’18
$13k
’19
−$5k
’20
−$6k
’21
$11k
’22
$11k
’23
20
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

Kathy Steele

CEO

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed5566666
Joined·+0+5+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·041000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $145k → $145k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
2
2
1
1

2 of 2 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 CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP’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 GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 GROUP.

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

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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 GROUP'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. $763k 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 GROUP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,386 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · above the median
Months of reserve19.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−20% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AZ

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP: 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 CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP?
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $762,981 to it, the largest being United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ($762,756). 2 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 CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $762,981 in grants to EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP?
United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc is the largest funder on record, with $762,756 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GROUP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 2 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