New Mexico · Nonprofit
LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,663 to it, the largest being The Estelle H Yates Foundation ($245,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Little Castle Learning & Development Center Inc does
Mission
Our mission - the mission of little castle learning & development center is to provide the opportunity, through play, for every child and their family to engage in a developmental age appropriate learning environment, where they can grow to be independent learners, creative and divergent thinkers, and where they will be willing to take risks, ask questions, and practice self-control. It is our hope that little castle will "inspire leaders of tomorrow- and that graduates of little castle take with them a love of learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our vision is to support parents in their child care and child development needs by offering the opportunity for reduced and supported cost child care. We seek to support each child's individual physical, social, and cognitive needs in a safe and challenging environment while considering each child's unique needs.
$889,960 spent$963,509 earned by the program96% of program spendingSee schedule o
$35,867 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $925,827.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $871k to $1.3M (+54%).
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 1% · 2021 66% · 2022 48% · 2023 21% · 2024 16% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Board chair
Elisabeth Jackson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $31k.
2 of 5 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 LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 89% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% 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 LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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 LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
- LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,663 to it, the largest being The Estelle H Yates Foundation ($245,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $389,663 in grants to LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
- The Estelle H Yates Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $245,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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