Kansas · Nonprofit
GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC
GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,754,948 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($912,828). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Growing Futures Early Education Center Inc does
Mission
We nurture strong beginnings for children through a comprehensive early educational approach that supports and empowers families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Extended Day - serves children in five (5) classrooms for a six-hour day, Monday-Thursday, for approximately 175 days per year. The extended day program serves low-income preschool aged children providing a high-quality Center based early childhood education and comprehensive family services for the whole family. The program is free to eligible families. Children must reside within the Shawnee Mission school district boundaries, be 3 or 4 years of age by August 31, and have family incomes that meet the Federal poverty guidelines.
$1,967,791 spent47% of program spendingThe Early Head Start program is delivered both in the home and Center setting providing early childhood education and comprehensive family support services. Eligible participants are children birth to three years of age and pregnant women. Families enrolled in our Early Head Start Home Visitation Program (term from KS EHS grants) receive weekly home visits by Family Educators certified through the Parents As Teachers Born to Learn Curriculum in addition to delivering services using the Florida State University Curriculum For Prevention and Early Intervention. Early Head Start Center Based services are provided in four classrooms at Growing Futures.
$1,845,309 spent44% of program spendingWrap Around Care - serves children in two (2) classrooms from 7:15am - 4:30pm Monday-Friday, year-round. It is designed to combine the preschool program with an extended day for parents who are working or in school at least 30 hours a week. For the 2024-2025 program year the cost is $160 a week. Children enrolled in our preschool programming must reside within the Shawnee Mission school district boundaries, be 3 or 4 years old by August 31, and have family incomes that meet the Federal poverty guidelines.
$401,359 spent$391,789 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,214,459.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $3.3M (+120%).
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 73% · 2018 75% · 2019 68% · 2020 77% · 2021 81% · 2022 79% · 2023 74% · 2024 73% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Chief executive
Larry Lewis
Executive Director
Board chair
Debra Peterson
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $405k → $181k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 funders by total. 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
GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 74% · 2019 69% · 2020 46% · 2021 45% · 2022 73% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
36% of GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $964k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC's revenue grew 66% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$18.8M
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 GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,754,948 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($912,828). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,754,948 in grants to GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $912,828 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 30 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