Kentucky · Nonprofit
GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC
GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,244 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ($209,903). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $272k
- Net assets
- $957k
What Growing Together Preschool Inc does
Mission
The mission of Growing Together Preschool is to provide affordable learning and developmentally focused services to infants toddlers and preschool aged children. The nature of the services is educational and therapeutic with emphasis on inclusion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025 Growing Together Preschool provided care and learning opportunities to 172 children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. Our inclusive program provides a safe and nurturing environment for children with and without disabilities on a year-round basis. We maintain a low child to teacher ratio to ensure a high quality of care. Our teachers are trained to recognize developmental delays and know when to recommend early intervention services. We offer a large therapy room for a variety of therapeutic services and our teachers work cooperatively with the therapists in the classroom throughout the day. We have added partnerships with community members to provide music therapy yoga and library volunteers. We continue to partner with Early Head Start to provide additional services for our at-risk families.
$1,736,101 spent$1,546,025 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,736,101.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $974k to $1.4M (+45%).
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: 2020 24% · 2021 43% · 2022 36% · 2023 39% · 2024 12% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Denise Menshouse
Executive Director
Board chair
Patricia Vanaman
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $82k → $253.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 TOGETHER PRESCHOOL 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
GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
100% 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 TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 78% · 2019 87% · 2020 72% · 2021 80% · 2022 97% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Against its field
GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC: 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 GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC?
- GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,244 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ($209,903). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $272,244 in grants to GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC is the largest funder on record, with $209,903 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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