Florida · Nonprofit
GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,573 to it, the largest being SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($120,893). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $0
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $356k
- Net assets
- $0
What Gladiolus Learning and Development Center Inc does
Mission
To provide educational and developmental child care for low income families. Gladiolus learning and development center, inc (glad kids) is committed to providing educational and developmental child care for children of low income working families and to strive to provide for the social, emotional, economic and developmental needs of those children and their familires. The harlem heights neighborhood is made up primarily of the working poor. We try to determine what needs our families have and then match them with agencies that can assist them with their needs if it is beyond our scope of programming which is educational child care.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Child care: Gladiolus Learning and Development Center Inc, formerly known as brightest horizons is licensed to care for 163 children. It is our choice to serve low income working families. The harlem heights neighborhood is home to 1,200 children under the age of 18. Thirty-six percent of harlem heights' families live below the federal poverty level which enables them to be eligible for subsidized child care if government funding is available. We are able to provide child care for families who receive government subsidies because we are determined to raise financial assistance required to meet the funding gap between what is reimbursed and what it actually costs to care for a child. When funds are available through donations, we offer other limited scholarship programs for families. Families who receive subsidies are required to have their eligibility determined through the early learning coalition in order to qualify for care. As parents "disqualify" due to a cut in work hours, a change in employment that was not communicated, or other various reasons, we lose children. These child care spots are difficult to fill without subsidy programs. The current wait list for child care in…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.4M to $0 (−100%).
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 8% · 2018 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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 narrowed from 9 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $113k → $15k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND 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
GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
90% 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 GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 31% · 2019 47% · 2020 47% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
6% of GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
72% of GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND 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 $100k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
- GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,573 to it, the largest being SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($120,893). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $355,573 in grants to GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
- SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,893 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 17 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