Florida · Nonprofit
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST INC
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,369 to it, the largest being United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc ($97,286). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $112k
- Net assets
- $228k
What Early Learning Coalition of the Nature Coast Inc does
Mission
The coalition will collaborate with parents to integrate a system of services and facilitate quality early education programs that include linkages to all areas of child development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Vpk: provides children who reside in florida and will attain the age of four years on or before september 1 of the school year a vpk education program. The early learning coalition provides vpk services to 1,500 children in 5 florida counties.
$4,949,831 spent28% of program spendingSchool readiness program: provides financial assistance for child care cost to families who meet the qualifying guidelines, including after school care for school age children and provides early education services to children 0 to 5 years of age. The early learning coalition provided services to 2,528 children in 5 florida counties.
$13,049,339 spent72% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,999,170.
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 $2.2M to $1.6M (−28%).
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 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST 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 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
Sonya Bosanko
CEO
Board chair
Rob Wardlow
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $6k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE NATURE COAST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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 THE NATURE COAST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
100% 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 THE NATURE COAST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 82% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST 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. $83 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 COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST INC's revenue grew 46% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST 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
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST INC?
- EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,369 to it, the largest being United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc ($97,286). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $112,369 in grants to EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST INC?
- United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc is the largest funder on record, with $97,286 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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