Colorado · Nonprofit
EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK
EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $691,713 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($475,550). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Parent Possibleshared fundersportfolio match
- Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Jolley Family Foundationlocal
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.
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 12% · 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 12% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $74k → $173k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 NETWORK’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 NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 75% · 2022 71% · 2023 46% — 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.
Where its funders are
69% of EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK'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. Of the $216k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $476k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Parent Possibleshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Jolley Family FoundationlocalDE · funds 7 organizations near you
- Healthy Child Care Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Care Aware of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Years Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lena Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Two Rivers Community FoundationlocalCO · funds 4 organizations near you
- Invest in Kidsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rose Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sam S Bloom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK?
- EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $691,713 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($475,550). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $691,713 in grants to EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK?
- ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $475,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing