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GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD

GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$658k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$408k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Great Beginnings Christian Child does

Mission

Provide day care and education

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide childcare servics to the general public to enable individuals to be gainfully employed and to provide an environment for the emotional, physical, social, intellectual and christian development of preschool and school age children. Approximately 50 children are served.

    $677,244 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $677,244.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($569k) Expenses 100 ($566k) Net assets 100 ($205k)2020 Revenue 92 ($523k) Expenses 93 ($524k) Net assets 99 ($204k)2021 Revenue 112 ($636k) Expenses 105 ($593k) Net assets 120 ($247k)2022 Revenue 216 ($1.2M) Expenses 120 ($676k) Net assets 192 ($393k)2023 Revenue 112 ($640k) Expenses 105 ($596k) Net assets 208 ($427k)2024 Revenue 116 ($658k) Expenses 120 ($677k) Net assets 199 ($408k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (116)Expenses (120)Net assets (199)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 2022 to 2023, from $396k to $506k (+28%).

$446k
$430k
$471k
$396k
$506k
$485k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 13% · 2022 36% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD’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. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’19
−$847
’20
$43k
’21
$555k
’22
$44k
’23
−$19k
’24
1.5
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.

Chief executive

Amy Bartlett

Exec director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed977677
Joined·+0+0+2+1+0
No longer listed·20300
03Who funds it

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 GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD’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

GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

NC

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD's revenue grew 16% between 2019 and 2024.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

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

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In Michigan

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD: 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 GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD?
GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD.
Who is the largest funder of GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD?
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREAT BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHILD find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2019–2024), 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