Maine · Nonprofit
LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE
LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being ELLIS L PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education 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.
- The Laverack Family Foundationshared funders
- First Children's Finance Groupportfolio match
- Let's Grow Kids Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2023 28% · 2024 23% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 SCHOOLHOUSE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
33% 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 SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE.
“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
LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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 Laverack Family Foundationshared fundersCT · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- First Children's Finance Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Let's Grow Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vt Association for the Education of Young Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Enterprises Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orchard Placeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Care Connection Inc DBA Threadportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building Bright Futures State Advisory Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyoming Early Childhood Partnershipportfolio 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 SCHOOLHOUSE 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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 SCHOOLHOUSE 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.
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 SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE?
- LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being ELLIS L PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,000 in grants to LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE?
- ELLIS L PHILLIPS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDCARE 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.
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 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