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HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC

HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $936,855 to it, the largest being KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ($424,032). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$740k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$937k
Net assets
$749k
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Hays Area Childrens Center Inc does

Mission

To serve and advance quality care and educational experiences for young children.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Training and development of children including preschool and daycare programs for children ages 2-5, kindergarten enrichment, after school and summer activities for children kindergarten through 9 years of age.

    $697,932 spent$647,091 earned by the program
    90% of program spending
  2. Child & adult care food program is a sponsor under the kansas state board of education. The center acts as a pass-through organization for the program and receives administrative funds.

    $75,350 spent$27,254 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $773,282.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($765k)2018 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 102 ($1.1M) Net assets 104 ($792k)2019 Revenue 99 ($1.1M) Expenses 102 ($1.1M) Net assets 105 ($806k)2020 Revenue 111 ($1.2M) Expenses 122 ($1.3M) Net assets 97 ($738k)2021 Revenue 117 ($1.3M) Expenses 119 ($1.3M) Net assets 101 ($774k)2022 Revenue 107 ($1.2M) Expenses 118 ($1.2M) Net assets 93 ($712k)2023 Revenue 83 ($918k) Expenses 82 ($873k) Net assets 99 ($757k)2024 Revenue 79 ($873k) Expenses 84 ($890k) Net assets 97 ($740k)2025 Revenue 92 ($1.0M) Expenses 82 ($869k) Net assets 116 ($886k)2026 Revenue 67 ($740k) Expenses 83 ($878k) Net assets 98 ($749k)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (83)Net assets (98)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 2024 to 2025, from $798k to $962k (+21%).

$883k
$933k
$887k
$840k
$918k
$774k
$801k
$798k
$962k
$828k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 30% · 2018 29% · 2019 31% · 2020 28% · 2021 27% · 2022 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’17
$27k
’18
$14k
’19
−$68k
’20
$35k
’21
−$61k
’22
$45k
’23
−$17k
’24
$146k
’25
−$138k
’26
1.1
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.

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Listed1010119899888
Joined·+2+7+0+0+3+5+1+1+1
No longer listed·262125211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $69k → $156k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 HAYS AREA CHILDRENS 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

HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC.

45%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 96% · 2019 93% · 2020 61% · 2021 67% · 2022 85% · 2023 88% — 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

86% of HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

80% of HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.

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KS

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,238 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC?
HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $936,855 to it, the largest being KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ($424,032). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $936,855 in grants to HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC?
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES is the largest funder on record, with $424,032 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAYS AREA CHILDRENS 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing