Florida · Nonprofit
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $368,845 to it, the largest being United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc ($134,738). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $369k
- Net assets
- $684k
What Early Learning Coalition of Lake County Inc does
Mission
To educate and support parents, early childhood professionals and the community as we collaborate to continue to provide the highest quality early learning programs for our children
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provision of subsidized child care via contracted services with child care providers in lake county serving needs of income eligible and at-risk children. The coalition contracted with 101 contracted providers and served 3,536 unduplicated children for fy 2024-2025.
$15,514,528 spent$15,782,514 earned by the program67% of program spendingProvision of pre-kindergarden (age 4) early intervention education programs/voluntary pre-k program development as mandated by the state of florida. A total of 2,788 children were enrolled during the year.
$7,294,784 spent$7,593,144 earned by the program32% of program spendingProvision of early education enhancement programs including child care provider education, supplemental materials and mobile resource unit. The mobile resource unit (big blue bus) (bbb) visits about 44 centers annually to bring activities and reading programs to the child care centers. The bbb also participated in 1 community event and distributed information about the elcs program and services to parents and children that attended.
$219,969 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,029,281.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $2.7M to $4.8M (+79%).
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: 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Lesha Buchbinder
CEO
Board chair
Courtney Yarkosky
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $35k → $20k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY 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 COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 58% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 62% · 2022 60% · 2023 50% — 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
60% of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
86% of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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 COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC?
- EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $368,845 to it, the largest being United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc ($134,738). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $368,845 in grants to EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC?
- United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc is the largest funder on record, with $134,738 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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