Nebraska · Nonprofit
EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES
EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,376,705 to it, the largest being BUFFETT EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND ($8,236,699). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $0
What Early Childhood Services does
Mission
Early Childhood Services (ecs) is a nebraska not-for-profit organization created in 2010 that is committed to ensuring that families of young children (prenatal to age eight) receive support to promote healthy lifestyles and to increase educational attainment for parents and their children. Ecs strives to improve quality of early childhood development, by way of positive early care and education opportunities, comprehensive health services, special needs intervention and family support through a collaboration of community providers.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Early Childhood Services (ecs) coordinates the work of multiple community-based programs serving low-income pregnant and young parenting teens. Ecs leads a collaborative network of local service agencies to meet the growing needs of young families in the community. Working together, this partnership provides a full range of essential services and guidance to help young parents build strong families.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
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 $15M to $0 (−100%).
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 36% · 2018 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $4.1M → $4.3M.
From the IRS filings of EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES’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 SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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: 2017 97% · 2018 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 SERVICES's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Gateway Leverage Lender LLC · disregarded
- Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative LLC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES?
- EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,376,705 to it, the largest being BUFFETT EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND ($8,236,699). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,376,705 in grants to EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES?
- BUFFETT EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,236,699 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), 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