Massachusetts · Nonprofit
RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,254,731 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ($478,516). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Rainbow Child Development Center Inc does
Mission
Rainbow provides care, education, and therapeutic services to children and families in a safe and nurturing environment where children learn and grow to reach their full potential, and families receive encouragement and services to support their children's development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family child care program - provide support to fcc educators for educational services in accordance with eec contract requirements for fcc systems. 174 children were served during fiscal year 2025.
$1,835,019 spent$386,301 earned by the program40% of program spendingPreschool program - provide childcare and educational services for preschool age children, as well as social service and developmental support for the children and their families. 108 children were served during fiscal year 2025.
$1,136,447 spent$200,267 earned by the program25% of program spendingSchool age program - provide childcare and educational services after school on school days and full-day during school vacations, including camp during the summer, as well as social service and develomental support for the children and their families. 257 children were served during fiscal year 2025.
$1,568,882 spent$1,069,720 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,540,348.
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.
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 $6.0M to $7.1M (+19%).
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: 2017 70% · 2018 75% · 2019 78% · 2020 83% · 2021 82% · 2022 89% · 2023 88% · 2024 88% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Paula Perrier
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $71k → $188k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’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
RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 25% · 2019 41% · 2020 40% · 2021 42% · 2022 39% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
88% of RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19k on record.
- FEDERAL$13k
- GRANT IN AID$6k
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 RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: 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 RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
- RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,254,731 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ($478,516). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,254,731 in grants to RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $478,516 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 20 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