Florida · Nonprofit
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $666,451 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ($313,784). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $666k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Early Learning Coalition of Manatee County Inc does
Mission
To provide and coordinate the services of school readiness programs, in an efficient manner, in order to help all children develop the skills needed to achieve future education success, to support the role of parents as their child's first and most important teacher and to continue to improve the quality of services available in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The school readiness program (sr) offers financial assistance to low-income families for early education and care so they can become financially selfsufficient, and their young children can be successful in school. School readiness childcare funding is available to eligible families to assist them in obtaining affordable, high-quality childcare. Children are eligible from birth through 12 years of age. The elc provided funding assistance for childcare for 4,116 children at 137 early learning providers throughout manatee county.
$19,738,536 spent64% of program spendingThe vpk program is a free program designed to prepare four-year-old children for kindergarten and build a foundation for educational success. The early learning coalition is responsible for the implementation and adminstration of the volutary prekindergarten program. The elc served 2,833 vpk children in 213 vpk early learning providers. Through outreach and awareness, the elc promoted the vpk program by airing vpk public service announcements, distributing informational materials at community engagements and advertising the program through a variety of marketing outlets.
$7,782,364 spent25% of program spendingComprehensive consumer education coalition staff conduct one-on-one education in the office, provide literature in the lobby, and participate in many community events such as day of hope, safe kids night, and back-to-school celebrations at title one elementary schools. The coalition's fleet, consisting of the mobile learning lab, the dream machine, and the elc explorer are utilized at these community events to distribute high-quality children's books, promote the school readiness and voluntary prekindergarten programs, as well as to educate the public about the early learning coalition's role as a community partner. The coalition also maintains consumer education on its website. For example, the child care resource and referral page contains valuable links to school readiness and parent education documents, such as the family guide for selecting quality child care and quality checklist. The elc continues to publish its seasonal family magazine, nextgen. This publication is distributed to all manatee county contracted childcare programs and elementary school children and provides a variety of informative articles on child and family-related topics. Nextgen also includes a directory…
$3,343,343 spent11% of program spendingNextgen
$119,756 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,983,999.
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 $5.3M to $7.5M (+42%).
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 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE 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. 3 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
Darrell King
CEO/ed
Board chair
Adam Mohammadbhoy
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $16k → $117k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 MANATEE 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 MANATEE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 MANATEE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 74% · 2019 51% · 2020 85% · 2021 77% · 2022 52% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
87% of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE 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. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MANATEE 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
Organizations like EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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 MANATEE COUNTY INC?
- EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $666,451 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ($313,784). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $666,451 in grants to EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC is the largest funder on record, with $313,784 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE 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 18 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