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MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV CENTER

MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV CENTER (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $38,000 to it, the largest being JOS L MUSCARELLE FOUNDATION INC ($38,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$789k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$38k
Net assets
$1.5M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Margaret P Muscarelle Child Dev Center does

Mission

The primary exempt purpose is to provide full time early care and education services to low and moderate income families who would otherwise be unable to afford quality child care. The organization also provides a nutritious breakfast, lunch and daily snack.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Electronic child care (ecc) is the time and attendance system initiated by the state of new jersey in september 2011. Families on all of the state's funding streams for child care use this system.

    $587,276 spent$545,764 earned by the program
    66% of program spending

  2. Child care food program - provide breakfast, lunch, and snack daily, during the 242 day per year program, to all children, regardless of family's ability to pay. Funds provided by the us department of agriculture, bureau of child nutrition, and the child care food program are used to accomplish this goal.

    $251,690 spent$161,813 earned by the program
    28% of program spending

  3. Child care center - families who can afford it pay full tuition for the preschool.

    $52,950 spent
    6% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $891,916.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 98 ($1.0M) Expenses 101 ($1.2M) Net assets 86 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 92 ($978k) Expenses 92 ($1.1M) Net assets 75 ($998k)2020 Revenue 95 ($1.0M) Expenses 70 ($851k) Net assets 87 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 120 ($1.3M) Expenses 79 ($958k) Net assets 111 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 90 ($951k) Expenses 74 ($901k) Net assets 115 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 113 ($1.2M) Expenses 76 ($932k) Net assets 135 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 83 ($879k) Expenses 79 ($961k) Net assets 129 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 74 ($789k) Expenses 80 ($973k) Net assets 115 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (74)Expenses (80)Net assets (115)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $1.3M (+28%).

$1.4M
$1.2M
$1.0M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 20% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$159k
’17
−$193k
’18
−$143k
’19
$157k
’20
$316k
’21
$50k
’22
$265k
’23
−$82k
’24
−$184k
’25
6.2
months of
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.

Chief executive

Anna Chen

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed86121010101099
Joined·+0+6+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·20200010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV 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.

Where its funders are

100% of MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV CENTER's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV 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 New Jersey

Mt Olive Child Care & Learning Center81%Mile Square Early Learning Center79%4cs of Passaic County Inc78%Millville Day Care Center Inc78%Programs for Parents Inc78%Child Care Resources of Monmouth County Inc78%Montclair Cooperative School Inc78%Parsippany Child Day Care Center Inc78%

Nationally

Mt Olive Child Care & Learning Center81%Educational Day Care Center Inc80%Mile Square Early Learning Center79%Danville Child Development Center79%4cs of Passaic County Inc78%Margaret C Griffin Child78%Millville Day Care Center Inc78%Programs for Parents Inc78%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV CENTER?
MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV CENTER (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $38,000 to it, the largest being JOS L MUSCARELLE FOUNDATION INC ($38,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV CENTER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $38,000 in grants to MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV CENTER?
JOS L MUSCARELLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $38,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARGARET P MUSCARELLE CHILD DEV CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 1 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