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Little Roots Childcare

Little Roots Childcare (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $304,370 to it, the largest being MANTHEI CHARITABLE TRUST ($304,370). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$754k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$304k
Grants received
$754k
Net assets
0/1 repeat funders

Against its field

Little Roots Childcare receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $304k to it.

Operating margin100% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve141682.0mo · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Little Roots Childcare’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Little Roots Childcare's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 Roots Childcare

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 Michigan

Bridging Gaps Childcare75%Springtide Education Initiatives73%Leelanau Children's Center71%Christ Child Society of Northern Michigan Inc70%Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County70%Everyday Blooms Montessori Inc70%Central Day Care Center69%Oaktree Academy Inc69%

Nationally

Growing Roots Inc76%Little Saplings Child Care Center75%Roots Academy Incorporated75%Bridging Gaps Childcare75%Little Forest School Inc74%Roots Forest School Inc74%Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated74%Little Beginnings Child Development Ctr73%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Little Roots Childcare: 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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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 Roots Childcare?
Little Roots Childcare (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $304,370 to it, the largest being MANTHEI CHARITABLE TRUST ($304,370). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Little Roots Childcare have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $304,370 in grants to Little Roots Childcare.
Who is the largest funder of Little Roots Childcare?
MANTHEI CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $304,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Little Roots Childcare find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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