Kansas · Nonprofit
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES (Kansas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,436,028 to it, the largest being THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies does
Mission
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sustainability grants (funded by american rescue plan act (arpa) of 2021 through kansas department for children and families), in response to the covid-19 pandemic, provided the following financial support services to provide relief to child care providers throughout the state of kansas:sustainability grants these grants, available to eligible programs, provide financial and technical assistance to help offset the realized negative impact on the structural layers of operating a child care business due to the covid-19 pandemic. Programs must use a portion of the grant funds to continue to pay the salaries/wages of staff employed through the licensed child care facility. During 2023, 3,867 child care programs were awarded sustainability grants.
$62,942,284 spentof which $62,427,287 as grants$62,982,066 earned by the program77% of program spendingDcf enrolled child care provider incentive payments (funded by american rescue plan act (arpa) of 2021 through kansas department for children and families) financial assistance to dcf enrolled child care providers based on the findings of the difference from current subsidy rates to the increased subsidy rates from the narrow cost analysis completed by prenatal to five fiscal strategies in july 2022. These funds are also intended to help offset the cost of enrolling with dcf as a provider who can accept child care assistance for newly enrolled providers. 1,140 providers received payments in 2023.
$7,452,575 spentof which $7,403,400 as grants$7,457,493 earned by the program9% of program spendingChild care health consultant (cchc) network. Funding for this program began on 9-1-2020 and continues. The child care health consultant (cchc) network supports high quality child care services and promotes healthy development for children in kdhe licensed child care facilities. Cchc's provide consultations, training, information, and technical assistance to child care providers in the state of kansas. Cchc's offer critical services to child care programs by reviewing policies, offering developmental expertise, completing assessments of child, staff, and family health needs, and connecting to community resources. In addition, cchc's collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of early childhood consultants, such as, early childhood education, mental health, and nutrition consultants. Various grant opportunities have been available for licensed child care programs through the cchc network.october 1, 2021, to june 30, 2024, american rescue plan act (arpa) of 2021, funding awarded through kansas department of health and environment. From january 1, 2023 to december 31, 2023, the cchc network implementation, cchc provided 465 start-up stipends ($1,128,015) and 115 health & safety grants…
$3,853,342 spentof which $1,725,586 as grants$4,013,668 earned by the program5% of program spendingChild care quality improvement and support services (ccqis)/links to quality (l2q) is providing program administration support to assist providers in improving business practices. L2q consultants provided 2,209 coaching, mentoring, and technical assistance, visits to programs across kansas as they continuously work to ensure their business has a strong foundation. During 2023, the project focused on helping programs recover from the financial effects of the pandemic. There are currently 595 programs who have participated in the program administration support service. In 2023, 225 quality awards were granted to all types of licensed child care facilities through this service. In the grant with kansas department for children and families beginning on october 1, 2022, this project expanded to include creating learning communities based upon a provider lead and focused community of learning model, establishing shared services network to help streamline processes for child care providers, establishing procedures and criteria for a financial incentive program, establishing and facilitating a quality improvement and support advisory group of early childhood professionals, and…
$2,756,626 spentof which $445,142 as grants$2,960,199 earned by the program3% of program spendingChild care consumer education and referral services is funded by the kansas department for children and families (dcf) through child care development fund. The statewide network of child care resource and referral agencies work together to connect families across kansas to child care in their area. The child care aware of kansas resource center provides child care referrals and shares resources with families seeking care. In 2023, 13,996 child care referrals were made to families searching for care. Through this contract, child care aware of kansas maintains and manages a secure, web-based system to provide information and child care referrals, that consumer education resources are available for families, and that parent referral follow-up is in place. Real time data, by county, is available on demand for communities, partners, and others, on our website, www.ks.childcareaware.org. Annual child care supply demand reports are created using data collected from this project.july 1, 2022 to june 30, 2024, child care consumer education and referral services is funded by the kansas department for children and families (dcf) through child care development block grant (child care…
$2,606,602 spentof which $1,067,218 as grants$2,679,400 earned by the program3% of program spendingAccounting services for kansas parents as teachers association (kpata) on october 1, 2019, kaccrra entered into an agreement with kpata to provide accounting services.arpa start young wage bonuses are offered in partnership with the family conservancy for child care providers in wyandotte county. The overall goal is to create a systemic approach to early childhood education that will improve the access and quality of child care, in wyandotte county and beyond. Bonuses are given out 4 times over 2-years to child care workers employed for at least one month to incentivize employee retention.baby steps is an innovative pilot that seeks not only to offset the revenue lost by caring for infants and toddlers, but also to bring family child care providers' incomes closer to what might be considered a "livable" wage. Participating child care programs receive support from kansas' infant toddler specialist network and services aimed at improving the quality of care for young children. In order to increase the likelihood that a child care provider will accept one or more infants, baby steps offsets the difference in potential annual salary earned plus an increase of 23% in order to approach…
$1,664,109 spentof which $1,171,953 as grants$811,528 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $81,275,538.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $5.2M (+208%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 held at 5 funders, grant income rose $120k → $224k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES’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
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 52% · 2019 81% · 2020 55% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 76% — 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
30% of KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES
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
95% 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 KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES?
- KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES (Kansas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,436,028 to it, the largest being THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $3,436,028 in grants to KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES?
- THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES 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.
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 15 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