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GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC

GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,545 to it, the largest being MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($23,170). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$434k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$255k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Garden Gate Child Development Center Inc does

Mission

The organization's mission is to provide early childhood education. At garden gate, children are seen as creative, competent and capable. Garden gate's teachers look at each individual child in a holistic way, respecting and nurturing each child's potential for physical, emotional, social, cognitive, creative and spiritual growth.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Early education: at garden gate, children are seen as creative, competent and capable. Garden gate's teachers look at each individual child in a holistic way, respecting and nurturing each child's potential for physical, emotional, social, cognitive, creative and spiritual growth. The organization exists to provide year round early childhood education services to children between the ages of 15 months and 9 years.

    $376,618 spent$351,518 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $376,618.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($286k) Expenses 100 ($288k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 97 ($278k) Expenses 102 ($295k) Net assets 62 ($27k)2019 Revenue 100 ($286k) Expenses 110 ($317k) Net assets -8 ($-3504)2020 Revenue 80 ($228k) Expenses 77 ($222k) Net assets 6 ($3k)2021 Revenue 186 ($531k) Expenses 121 ($349k) Net assets 416 ($185k)2022 Revenue 147 ($419k) Expenses 141 ($406k) Net assets 443 ($197k)2023 Revenue 162 ($462k) Expenses 138 ($399k) Net assets 585 ($260k)2024 Revenue 152 ($434k) Expenses 152 ($439k) Net assets 574 ($255k)
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Revenue (152)Expenses (152)Net assets (574)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $74k to $213k (+188%).

$63k
$47k
$18k
$74k
$213k
$332k
$363k
$337k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 17% · 2022 21% · 2023 15% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

19% of GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
−$17k
’18
−$31k
’19
$6k
’20
$182k
’21
$12k
’22
$63k
’23
−$5k
’24
7.1
months of
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.

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Listed33331291112
Joined·+0+0+0+10+1+3+3
No longer listed·0001412
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $7k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’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.

How concentrated its funding is

GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC.

84%
largest funder
95%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 51% · 2022 100% · 2023 85% — 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.

Where its funders are

85% of GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve7.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
73%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,545 to it, the largest being MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($23,170). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $27,545 in grants to GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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