Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME
OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME (Oregon) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,483,138 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,355,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Oregon Center for Creative Learning Dba Kid Time does
Mission
To encourage all children to learn & grow through creative play
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Admissions and memberships for day use of childrens growth and nuturing facilities including gift and snackshop to support childrens play
$826,914 spent$546,187 earned by the program21% of program spendingIvy school preschool implementing the preschool promise programs by providing high quality preschool to families at or below the 200% poverty level
$3,161,092 spentof which $129,329 as grants$663,780 earned by the program79% of program spendingChildrens and adult after hours facility for gatherings to foster childrens growth and needs support through community
$0 spent$6,209 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,988,006.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $9.4M to $21M (+118%).
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 39% · 2020 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Sunny Spicer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $135k → $235k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME’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
OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 91% · 2019 74% · 2020 58% · 2021 50% · 2022 40% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
43% of OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $923k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.1M on record — $2.2M federal, $6.9M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.2M
- DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$3.2M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$3.1M
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$678k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$24k
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 OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME: 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 OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME?
- OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME (Oregon) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,483,138 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,355,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $4,483,138 in grants to OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,355,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 26 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