Georgia · Nonprofit
Early Learning Scholars Inc
Early Learning Scholars Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $691k
What Early Learning Scholars Inc does
Mission
Early Learning Scholars & Family Services, Inc. mission is to empower families in becoming , safe, healthy, nurturing, and self- sustaining through education of children age 6 weeks to 5 years old
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
ELS family of educators and caregivers provide a nurturing, loving environment for pre-schoolers in Headstart, kindergarten, and the early childcare CACFP program. The organization is dedicated to strengthening communities by educating children and linking families to needed services and resources.
$1,581,971 spent$1,843,563 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,581,971.
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 2019 to 2020, from $368k to $763k (+108%).
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 67% · 2018 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Early Learning Scholars Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Tara Armstrong
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Against its field
Early Learning Scholars Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Early Learning Scholars 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% 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 Scholars 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Early Learning Scholars Inc?
- Early Learning Scholars Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Early Learning Scholars Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to Early Learning Scholars Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Early Learning Scholars Inc?
- ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Early Learning Scholars Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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