Maine · Nonprofit
LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER
LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,220 to it, the largest being COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $104k
What Little Saplings Child Care Center does
Mission
Little Saplings Child Care Centers mission is to create develop construct equip and operate a nonprofit childcare facility that will provide members of the community a realistic and affordable way to care for their children while they are at work preserving the possibility of gainful employment for the parents of children in and around the surrounding communities of Portage Maine.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Construct a nonprofit childcare facility.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $85k to $131k (+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.
89% of LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $500.
From the IRS filings of LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD 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 SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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
78% 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 SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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
78% of LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER's grant income comes from Maine 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 SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER's revenue fell 55% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $641k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$641k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER?
- LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,220 to it, the largest being COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $48,220 in grants to LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER?
- COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE SAPLINGS CHILD CARE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2023–2025), 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