North Carolina · Nonprofit
Highlands Community Child Development Center
Highlands Community Child Development Center (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $772,900 to it, the largest being AL WILLIAMS JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($260,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $711k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $773k
- Net assets
- $9.7M
What Highlands Community Child Development Center does
Mission
The mission of the Highlands Community Child Development Center is to provide affordable, high-quality, preschool child care and early childhood education in a safe & loving environment to young children and their families regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, age, disability, or religion.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Highlands Community Child Development Center (HCCDC) located at 89 Church Street in Highlands, NC opened two (2) new pre-school classrooms on February 8, 2023 at The Church of The Incarnation. The new location is referred to as HCCDC at The Church of The Incarnation and is a Five Star facility licensed by the state of North Carolina. The following information includes the new classrooms, students, families and businesses served. . Highlands Community Child Development Center (HCCDC) uses an age-appropriate curriculum selected for each age group and applies the early childhood education programs in individual lesson plans. Basic Skills development is augmented by programs in creative play, art, crafts and music appreciation. The Music Appreciation Program provides early childhood musical education to all children ages 1 to 5. HCCDCs programs are coordinated with the Highlands Public and Summit Charter Schools teaching staffs to ensure a smooth transition from the center into public or charter school.
$1,237,283 spent$534,851 earned by the program100% of program spendingAdditional services provided at the Center by Macon County agencies are speech and hearing therapy, nutrition and counseling for parents of children with special needs. The Center provides affordable, high-quality, preschool childcare and early childhood educational and social development in a safe and loving environment to all families regardless of race, religion, creed, national origin or financial ability. HCCDC currently has 3 special needs children enrolled. Current enrollment includes 9 Hispanic and 7 of Mixed Race. Additionally, we serve 6 Single Parent families. Communications with parents, potential clients, supporters and the general public have been expanded by establishing a website: highlandscommunitychildcare.org.
HCCDC is the only state-licensed childcare center in Highlands and eastern Macon County providing services full time - 10 hours per day, 5 days per week for 12 months each year. The center is licensed by the State of North Carolina to serve 99 children from 8 weeks to 5 years of age. Enrollment for the full year of 2023 averaged 74 children for the year with normal seasonal variations. Fifteen children graduated in August and entered the area public and charter school systems. For the year, HCCDC provided services to 66 families represented by 126 parents and grandparents living in Macon, Jackson, and Rabun counties and working for 78 companies in and around Highlands. 22 children are from lower-income families who qualify through Macon and Jackson County Social Services for tuition support from the NC Child Care Subsidy Program. Approximately one-third of the children qualified for support in the form of free or reduced meals from the Federal Food Program (CACFP).
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,237,283.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6.2M to $7.2M (+16%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2022 18% · 2023 10% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of Highlands Community Child Development Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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 broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $56k → $79k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Highlands Community Child Development Center’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
Highlands Community Child Development Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 Highlands Community Child Development Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 68% · 2019 80% · 2020 80% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 42% — 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
40% of Highlands Community Child Development Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
Highlands Community Child Development Center draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k 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
Highlands Community Child Development Center is better cushioned than half of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Highlands Community Child Development Center
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 Highlands Community Child Development Center: 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 Highlands Community Child Development Center?
- Highlands Community Child Development Center (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $772,900 to it, the largest being AL WILLIAMS JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($260,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Highlands Community Child Development Center have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $772,900 in grants to Highlands Community Child Development Center, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Highlands Community Child Development Center?
- AL WILLIAMS JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Highlands Community Child Development Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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