Vermont · Nonprofit
EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC
EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,881 to it, the largest being LET'S GROW KIDS INC ($78,881). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $595k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $281k
What Early Learning Center Inc does
Mission
To value children and families and promote positive learning experiences in an environment that inspires curiosity, nurtures respectful relationships and empowers active involvement in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The early learning center (elc) is an early childhood education program created in partnership with families, educators and members of the community. The center is a fully licensed, developmentally oriented program located at fort ethan allen in colchester, vermont, providing high quality child care and early education for 38 children ages 6 weeks to 6 years. We believe that children are competent learners from birth. We value children's natural curiosity and individual ideas and facilitate children's learning through a developmentally appropriate, play-based curriculum in an enrighing, safe, and nurturing envrionment, in which children reach their full potential. Our center is committed to providing the very best in early childhood education experience for every child and family in our care.
$523,510 spent$574,844 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $523,510.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $154k to $259k (+69%).
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 10% · 2022 7% · 2023 5% · 2024 3%. 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 4 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
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $54k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC’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 LEARNING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
99% 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 LEARNING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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 LEARNING CENTER INC's grant income comes from Vermont 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.
Government funding EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Child Care Subsidy Employ/Trai$883k
- CC Stabilization ARPA - Grants$52k
- Child Care Subsidy Family Supp$43k
- CCFAP Expansion Readiness$39k
- Child Care Subsidy Protect SVC$32k
- Miscellaneous Grants$32k
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 LEARNING CENTER INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 LEARNING CENTER INC: 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 LEARNING CENTER INC?
- EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,881 to it, the largest being LET'S GROW KIDS INC ($78,881). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $79,881 in grants to EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC?
- LET'S GROW KIDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $78,881 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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