Ohio · Nonprofit
LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER
LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,392 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($231,142). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $294k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $236k
- Net assets
- $152k
What Little Disciples Learning Center does
Mission
Little Disciples Learning Center was established to provide quality child care services to children and families in the franklin county communities. The Little Disciples Learning Center purpose is to assist the children in their development as responsible educators of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Little Disciples Learning Center provides educational child care & day/after school programs. Little Disciples Learning Center offers a secure, safe and fun environment while the children are learning. Children have a curriculum that consists of a daily schedule with developmental appropriate activities for the children which support the eneds of the children individual skills. The classroom environment is filled with nurturing experiences for each child. Such activities include: dramatic play, music, arts & crafts and lots of other hands on activities. Children also have an opportunity to explore their gross motor skills by: jumping, climbing & by participating in organized play activities. Little Disciples Learning Center participates in step up to quality & action for children.
$289,757 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $289,757.
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 2021 to 2022, from $200k to $299k (+50%).
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 89% · 2018 90% · 2019 92% · 2020 67% · 2021 81% · 2022 59% · 2023 85% · 2024 86% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $14k → $129k.
From the IRS filings of LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING 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
LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
100% 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 LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING 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 Ohio
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING 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 LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER?
- LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,392 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($231,142). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $236,392 in grants to LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER?
- OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $231,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE DISCIPLES LEARNING CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2 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