Florida · Nonprofit
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,512 to it, the largest being MDRC ($72,941). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC has grown faster than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Sharing Foundation Inclocal
- Healthy Child Care Coloradoportfolio match
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $23.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $143k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of St Lucie County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE 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 ST LUCIE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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 COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Sharing Foundation InclocalFL · funds 12 organizations near you
- Healthy Child Care Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Public Health Laboratories Incshared fundersMD · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Learning Coalition of Duval Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agenda for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orchard Placeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Episcopal Children's Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Years Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Action for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC?
- EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,512 to it, the largest being MDRC ($72,941). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $78,512 in grants to EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC?
- MDRC is the largest funder on record, with $72,941 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF ST LUCIE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing