North Carolina · Nonprofit
EARLY YEARS INC
EARLY YEARS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,568,103 to it, the largest being DURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ($12,880,704). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What Early Years Inc does
Mission
Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. Early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and education at the local, state and national levels. Early years is one of the managing agencies for the nc ccr&r council, and as the local child care resource and referral agency, provides family support services in alamance, caswell, durham, franklin, granville, orange, person, vance and wake counties, which includes helping families find and pay for quality child care. Early years helps child care providers improve the quality of child care, including support training, on-site consultations, nutrition services, salary supplements and college scholarships. In nc and nationally, early years addresses the issues of under-education, low compensation and high turnover in the early childhood workforce through innovative programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child care wage$the key goal of the child care wage$ program is to improve early care and education services. Through increased compensation, wage$ helps attract and retain educated early childhood professionals, and encourages participants to reach higher levels of education through a graduated supplement scale. The program's primary goal for fy25 was that the turnover rate of wage$ participants for the year would be less than 25%. Results: outcome met. The turnover rate for wage$ participants was only 13%, well below the benchmark of 25%. This represents increased stability for children in the years when it is most needed.in addition to increased retention, wage$ participants also had or obtained higher levels of education. Eighty-nine percent (89%) whose counties had participated at least two years had an associate degree in early childhood education, its equivalent or higher based on the wage$ scale or submitted documentation during the year to verify their pursuit of additional coursework. Wage$ paid 4,075 early educators, surpassing the expected output. These participants worked in 1,806 facilities serving approximately 85,855 children and they received an average six-month…
$13,575,284 spentof which $12,142,859 as grants35% of program spendingTeach early childhood:the teach early childhood north carolina scholarship program provides unique educational scholarships to child care professionals as a strategy to improve the education, compensation and retention of north carolina's early care and education workforce. Scholarships are structured using four components (scholarship, education, compensation and commitment) and are available to facility based early educators including program administrators and home based professionals working in north carolina and to individuals who perform non-direct service functions on behalf of young children and families throughout the state's early care and education system. These scholarships enable eligible personnel with the opportunity to complete coursework leading towards credentials and degrees at 56 of north carolina's 58 community colleges and 20 colleges/universities. Participants are expected to increase their education by completing a minimum number of credits annually and in turn are given raises or bonuses in recognition of their achievement. More importantly, participants are required to commit to the early care and education field, their employing sponsoring program or…
$5,459,144 spentof which $3,821,362 as grants$422,281 earned by the program14% of program spendingFederal, state & local initiatives:100% of regional lead ccr&r agencies indicated that assistance received from the r&r council was helpful and indicated that the ccr&r council has enabled the improvement of r&r services. All 14 regional lead agencies successfully implemented the following three ccr&r core services: consumer education and referral, professional development and technical assistance. The birth-to-three quality initiative achieved 107% of its three year (fy23-fy25) goal of reaching 700 statewide practice based coaching participants by providing 234 individuals pbc in fy23, 250 individuals pbc in fy24, and 265 individuals in fy25. Under the b-3 quality initiative, 2394 child care providers participated in training sessions representing 120% of the established goal of 2000 participants for fy 25. Under the statewide core services during fy25, 94% of parents responding to follow-up surveys indicated that they chose 3, 4, or 5 star care. Eight of the 14 regions reported that at least 89% of the customers surveyed responded that they chose 3, 4, or 5 star care, with seven of 14 reporting that at least 97% of parents indicated they choose this level of care. Statewide 89%…
$19,855,464 spentof which $12,531,114 as grants$1,370,228 earned by the program51% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,889,892.
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.
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 $9.4M to $11M (+15%).
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 89% · 2018 83% · 2019 85% · 2020 80% · 2021 90% · 2022 93% · 2023 80% · 2024 83% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $331k → $4.7M.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $438k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Early Years Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EARLY YEARS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of EARLY YEARS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 YEARS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 YEARS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 66% · 2019 49% · 2020 21% · 2021 76% · 2022 76% · 2023 86% — growing more concentrated.
“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
39% of EARLY YEARS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 YEARS INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232k 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.
Government funding EARLY YEARS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $615k on record.
- OR$607k
- NJ$8k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EARLY YEARS 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARLY YEARS 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 YEARS INC?
- EARLY YEARS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,568,103 to it, the largest being DURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ($12,880,704). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARLY YEARS INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $30,568,103 in grants to EARLY YEARS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY YEARS INC?
- DURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $12,880,704 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY YEARS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 31 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