Minnesota · Nonprofit
FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP
FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being Taylor Family Farms Foundation Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What First Children's Finance Group does
Mission
First Children's Finance Group (fcf) grows the supply and sustainability of high-quality child care by strengthening the business and financial foundations of the sector. Fcf is a national nonprofit headquartered in minneapolis, minnesota, with state offices in michigan, minnesota, iowa, oregon and vermont. Fcf provides financing, business training, and consulting to child care entrepreneurs, while partnering with public, private, and tribal stakeholders to advance policies and funding strategies that create sustainable child care systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
1. Business support for child care entrepreneursfcf provides tailored business development services to child care entrepreneurs at every stagestart-up, stabilization, growth, and succession. Our staff deliver one-on-one consulting, group training, and access to financing and business tools that improve sustainability and quality. In fy2025, fcf supported 3,367 child care businesses, offering 254 trainings and 53 cohort-based programs across multiple states. In iowa, 77 business owners completed our business & financial fundamentals series, with 84% reporting measurable improvement in financial and management practices. These efforts strengthen small businesses serving low- and moderate-income families.2. Building local child care capacityfcf partners with communities to increase the supply and stability of child care that meets local workforce and family needs. Through data-driven consultation, financial modeling, and strategic planning, fcf supported 122 communities nationwide in fy2025. Our rural child care innovation program and related initiatives helped more than 45 communities conduct supply-and-demand analyses, identify barriers, and implement local solutionsturning child…
$5,111,017 spentof which $2,105,762 as grants$219,572 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,111,017.
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
Heidi Hagel-Braid
President & CEO
Board chair
Suzanne Humbert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- CCDF Infant Toddler Capacity$2.6M
- Childcare Capacity Grants$322k
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$68k
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 FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- First Children's Finance · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP: 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 FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP?
- FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being Taylor Family Farms Foundation Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP?
- Taylor Family Farms Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE GROUP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2025–2025), 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