Colorado · Nonprofit
LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER
LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,920 to it, the largest being TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION ($37,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER's revenue fell 99% between 2019 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,605 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Art and Ann Boeken Trust Frontier Banklocal
- Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agenciesportfolio match
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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.
0% of LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE 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 LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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: 2021 64% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
75% of LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER's grant income comes from Colorado 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Art and Ann Boeken Trust Frontier BanklocalCO · funds 2 organizations near you
- Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyoming Early Childhood Partnershipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orchard Placeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Episcopal Children's Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Learning Coalition of Broward County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Child Care Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Central Iowa Community Foundaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Learning Coalition of Duval Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 LEADERS LEARNING & CARE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER?
- LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,920 to it, the largest being TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION ($37,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $49,920 in grants to LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER?
- TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE LEADERS LEARNING & CARE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing