Colorado · Nonprofit
GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER
GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,046 to it, the largest being OUTCALT FOUNDATION ($87,020). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $664k
What Gingerbread House Early Learning Center does
Mission
The gingerbread house is dedicated to the concept that "learning is fun" by enabling children to expand their imaginations, their abilities, and their horizons through creative teaching. The goal of the center is to instill good attitudes in children about learning, thereby helping them to move on to other educational opportunities with courage and excitement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization is a state licensed childcare facility which serves approximately 105 children five days a week all year around. We are dedicated to providing low cost, high quality childcare and preschool services to the community. The organization is dedicated to the concept that "learning is fun" by enabling children to expand their imaginations, their abilities, and their horizons through creative teaching. The goal of the center is to instill good attitudes in children about learning, thereby helping them to move on to other educational opportunities with courage and excitement.The organization added a Early Head Start Program in the Summer of 2016. The program consists of 2 classrooms, both of the classrooms hold 8 children. One is for infants ages 6wks to 18 months. The other classroom is for children ages 18 months to 36 months. The program runs from 7:30 - 5:30 Monday through Friday.
$1,068,193 spent$1,120,792 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,068,193.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $744k (−26%).
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: 2021 10% · 2023 12% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER’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. 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.
Board chair
Bonnie Ortega
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $87k → $11.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER’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
GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER's revenue grew 66% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Adams State University · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER?
- GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,046 to it, the largest being OUTCALT FOUNDATION ($87,020). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $87,046 in grants to GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER?
- OUTCALT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $87,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GINGERBREAD HOUSE EARLY LEARNING CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2 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