Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,250 to it, the largest being LANSING ECONOMIC AREA PARTNERSHIP ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children does
Mission
To promote high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Continued the t.e.a.c.h early childhood michigan, which is a scholarship program for teachers in child care centers and homes.
$7,129,605 spent86% of program spendingMichigan aeyc conducted its annual conference (not virtually) in april 2025 and its infant toddler conference in november 2025. It also provided scholarships for the brian white scholarship, jacqueline miller grant (jme grant), student leadership fund (slf) and the debbie antone memorial fund (damf).
$1,151,114 spentof which $8,697 as grants$530,235 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,280,719.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.8M to $2.3M (−39%).
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: 2019 92% · 2020 97% · 2021 95% · 2022 91% · 2023 91% · 2024 92% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Erica Willard
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $84.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN’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
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
100% 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 MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250 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.
Against its field
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% 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 MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: 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 MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN?
- MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,250 to it, the largest being LANSING ECONOMIC AREA PARTNERSHIP ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,250 in grants to MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN?
- LANSING ECONOMIC AREA PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN 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.
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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 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