Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC
LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,670,106 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($1,465,182). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Lehigh Valley Children's Centers Inc does
Mission
Lvcc provides high-quality early education and child care to promote healthy child development, meet the needs of families, and to encourage children to discover the art of learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Established in 1970, lvcc provides comprehensive early childhood education and child care services throughout pa's lehigh and northampton counties. Approximately 1,350 children, ages six weeks through 12 years, attended our 32 locations in this fiscal year. Lvcc programs focus on developmentally appropriate early education and care, promoting social-emotional, cognitive, physical, and language development. Lvcc is committed to continuous improvement through participation in the pa keystone stars, quality initiative and national association of the education of young children (naeyc) accreditation. Lvcc operated 12 full-service centers and 18 before-and-after school programs in elementary schools, and a high school center for children of parenting teens. Lvcc welcomes all children and families.
$1,860,920 spent$5,327,100 earned by the program14% of program spendingLvcc had 27 classrooms under the lvcc grant of 463 slots. 37 children were cared for at easton asd, 53 children at wilson asd, 30 children at palmerton asd, and 64 children at panther valley asd. Established in 2007 by the pde, the pre-k counts program increases access to quality pre-kindergarten for children deemed at-risk for future academic failure for reasons of family poverty, special needs, english language leaner status, or other risk factors. Pre-k counts is offered at no charge to eligible families. Each pre-k counts classroom is lead by a pa-certified teacher and provides a minimum of 180 days of instruction per year. Lvcc strives to ensure that all children who participate in pre-k counts enter kindergarten with strong foundational skills ready to continue their learning success. Pre-k counts is supported by a grant from the education office of child development and early learning. (ocdel).
$5,638,197 spent43% of program spendingLvcc is a sponsor/monitor of the child and adult care food program (cacfp) from birth through age 12. Cacfp ensures that children receive nutritious, well-balanced meals and snacks while in child care settings and reimburses participating child care providers a portion of the cost of meals served to enrolled children. Cacfp is administered at the federal level of the u.s dept. Of agriculture (usda) and at the state level of the pde, division of food and nutrition. Lvcc's cacfp staff members make at least three monitoring visits per year to around 245 family and group child care homes in 15 pa counties. Our staff presents annual training sessions in english and spanish covering topics in health, nutrition, and menu planning. Participating providers submit attendance records and monthly meal counts to lvcc.
$5,493,014 spent$2,580,453 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,992,131.
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 $15M to $20M (+36%).
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 22% · 2018 24% · 2019 27% · 2020 32% · 2021 33% · 2022 39% · 2023 44% · 2024 41% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Charles Dinofrio
CEO
Board chair
Jim Macdonald
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $425k → $241k.
3 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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 LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 55% · 2019 54% · 2020 49% · 2021 56% · 2022 51% · 2023 62% — 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
59% of LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
93% of LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC?
- LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,670,106 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($1,465,182). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,670,106 in grants to LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $1,465,182 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 31 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