Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES
FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,854 to it, the largest being HESS FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $795k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Federation Day Care Services D/B/A Federation Early Learning Services does
Mission
Federation early learning services (fels) provides excellence in childcare and early childhood education for all families from diverse backgrounds throughout the delaware valley. Built on a foundation of jewish values and traditions for over a century, fels is a recognized leader, helping families access affordable childcare, providing innovative programs for children, and consultation services to the early childhood community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fels operates five centers in the greater philadelphia area for approximately 450 children ranging from six weeks to 12 years old. Fifty-one percent of fels children are from low-income, working families, and fifty percent live in single-parent households.fels provides excellence in early childhood education for families from diverse economic, religious, and racial backgrounds throughout the delaware valley. With national and state-accredited programs, fels upholds the highest learning and safety standards. Built on a foundation of jewish values and traditions, fels is a recognized leader in helping families access affordable child care of the highest standards and providing innovative programs for children. We honor and respect the incredible diversity and cultural differences of all children enrolled and staff working in our programs, and our non-sectarian policies promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
$7,674,869 spent$8,062,501 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,674,869.
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 $13M to $5.5M (−57%).
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 90% · 2018 91% · 2019 91% · 2020 2% · 2021 17% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES’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. 6 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
Pamela Thomas
Interim president/CEO & CFO
Board chair
Joanne Krueger
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $63k → $116k.
6 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $809k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia). These are real filings, and they are not money FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES raised.
From the IRS filings of FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 39% · 2019 42% · 2020 31% · 2021 28% · 2022 22% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“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 FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
53% of FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Federation Day Care Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES?
- FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,854 to it, the largest being HESS FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $794,854 in grants to FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES?
- HESS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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