Arizona · Nonprofit
Early Education Cooperative Preschool
Early Education Cooperative Preschool (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,890 to it, the largest being DAVID R PICERNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $450k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $271k
What Early Education Cooperative Preschool does
Mission
The purpose of a cooperative early education program is to bring parents and children together in a learning environment that supports childrens growth and to provide a community of support in parenting.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Early Education Cooperative Preschool serves students and offers a childcare program based on research and best practices in education and child development. Inspired by both the Emilia Reggio approach as well as The Creative Curriculum, we provide developmentally appropriate classrooms which create a community of learners where the students are encouraged to play, explore and research the world around them.
$385,825 spentof which $34,994 as grants$394,909 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $385,825.
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 $408k to $319k (−22%).
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: 2021 20% · 2022 23% · 2023 44% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of Early Education Cooperative Preschool’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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.
Chief executive
Nancy Wilson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $261 → $29.
1 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 Education Cooperative Preschool’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 Education Cooperative Preschool leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
Early Education Cooperative Preschool draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Education Cooperative Preschool is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Early Education Cooperative Preschool
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 Education Cooperative Preschool: 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 Education Cooperative Preschool?
- Early Education Cooperative Preschool (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,890 to it, the largest being DAVID R PICERNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Early Education Cooperative Preschool have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $5,890 in grants to Early Education Cooperative Preschool, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Early Education Cooperative Preschool?
- DAVID R PICERNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Early Education Cooperative Preschool 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.
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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