Texas · Nonprofit
EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC
EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,098,152 to it, the largest being LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC ($3,424,816). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Early Learning Centers of Lubbock Inc does
Mission
Educating and nurturing young children and their families for successful futures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of five educational child care centers in north and east lubbock. Early childhood education is provided for over 250 children monthly and over 600 unduplicated children are served annually.
$3,245,572 spent$1,672,090 earned by the program100% of program spendingAdministration of the usda child care food program in all centers. A nutritional breakast, lunch and snack is provided for each enrolled child. Infant formula and baby foods are also provided at no additional cost to parents.
Staff training on child development, health, and safety management and other related topics.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,245,572.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $1.8M (−24%).
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 18% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2021 29% · 2022 38% · 2023 31% · 2024 18% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Lena Scaff
Executive director
Board chair
Camelia Alonzo
Fundraiser chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $613k → $618k.
1 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK 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 CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 71% · 2019 72% · 2020 66% · 2021 62% · 2022 87% · 2023 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
63% of EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k 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 LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC?
- EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,098,152 to it, the largest being LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC ($3,424,816). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $5,098,152 in grants to EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC?
- LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,424,816 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing