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RAINBOW FLEET INC

RAINBOW FLEET INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,497,741 to it, the largest being INASMUCH FOUNDATION ($651,933). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.1M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$889k
12/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Rainbow Fleet Inc does

Mission

To provide innovative educational child care development programs and services that enhance the quality of life for children, their families and child care professionals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Child and adult care food program - nutritional training and processing of claims for meal reimbursements for family care home providers licensed through the oklahoma department of human services.

    $2,231,243 spent
    48% of program spending

  2. Child care resource referral - specialists provide consultations with families and the community in an effort to provide the most current and accurate information about child care options, quality indicators and related resources. Rainbow fleet provides training opportunities and technical assistance to child care providers.

    $868,564 spent
    19% of program spending

  3. Early education center and after school program - set the highest standard of excellence for early education in oklahoma city. Employing research-based teaching practices and montessori pedagogy early learning methods, the centers highly skilled child development experts create an optimal environment for the children who attend.

    $1,369,695 spent$1,233,386 earned by the program
    30% of program spending

  4. Provider training - training child care providers to be outstanding caregivers is at the very core of our mission at rainbow fleet. We offer numerous educational opportunities each month covering various child care topics including safe sleep, first aid, operations, room arrangement, child development and many more. All of our training can be applied toward the dhs licensing requirements and also qualifies for stars training credits.

    $7,125 spent$13,145 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

  5. Quality enhancement initiative - qei is a comprehensive training and technical assistance initiative to improve the quality of early care and education in family child care homes in oklahoma county.

    $131,785 spent
    3% of program spending

  6. Other miscellaneous programs.

    $2,274 spent
    0% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,610,686.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($409k)2018 Revenue 90 ($1.9M) Expenses 93 ($1.9M) Net assets 106 ($435k)2019 Revenue 88 ($1.9M) Expenses 96 ($2.0M) Net assets 91 ($371k)2020 Revenue 98 ($2.1M) Expenses 94 ($1.9M) Net assets 131 ($537k)2021 Revenue 131 ($2.8M) Expenses 125 ($2.6M) Net assets 207 ($846k)2022 Revenue 152 ($3.3M) Expenses 145 ($3.0M) Net assets 279 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 187 ($4.0M) Expenses 215 ($4.4M) Net assets 190 ($778k)2024 Revenue 211 ($4.6M) Expenses 231 ($4.7M) Net assets 155 ($635k)2025 Revenue 237 ($5.1M) Expenses 239 ($4.9M) Net assets 218 ($889k)
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Revenue (237)Expenses (239)Net assets (218)Peer revenue range

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 $1.2M to $1.8M (+53%).

$551k
$557k
$509k
$776k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.8M
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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: 2017 88% · 2018 91% · 2019 93% · 2020 82% · 2021 71% · 2022 63% · 2023 73% · 2024 72% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of RAINBOW FLEET INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$113k
’17
$25k
’18
−$63k
’19
$181k
’20
$274k
’21
$312k
’22
−$361k
’23
−$159k
’24
$227k
’25
0.2
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

Quisha Beardsley

Executive director (eff 4-24)_

Board chair

Scott Marsh

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed151514181914171412
Joined·+0+2+4+2+3+3+1+3
No longer listed·03018045
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $116k.

Funder
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total
funders
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3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 FLEET INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 22 funders by total. 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 FLEET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46% 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 FLEET INC.

44%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 91% · 2019 65% · 2020 33% · 2021 78% · 2022 52% · 2023 65% — 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

60% of RAINBOW FLEET INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

100% of RAINBOW FLEET INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

OK

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

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Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RAINBOW FLEET INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding RAINBOW FLEET INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $241k on record.

State$241k
Top programs
  • Pmts-Local Gov't-Pub Sch Ed$241k

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 FLEET 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 Oklahoma

Sunbeam Family Services Inc80%Big Five Community Services Inc79%Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness Foundation Inc78%Tulsa Educare Inc78%Oklahoma Association for Infant Mental Health78%Youth and Family Services Inc77%Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma Inc77%Oklahoma Child Care Resource & Referral Association Inc76%

Nationally

Rainbow's End Learning Center Inc81%Child & Family Resources Inc81%Comprehensive Community Child Care Organization Inc81%Rainbow School and Day Care Center Inc80%Child Care Resource Center Inc80%Sunbeam Family Services Inc80%Rainbows United Inc80%Child Start Inc79%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAINBOW FLEET 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 FLEET INC?
RAINBOW FLEET INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,497,741 to it, the largest being INASMUCH FOUNDATION ($651,933). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAINBOW FLEET INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,497,741 in grants to RAINBOW FLEET INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAINBOW FLEET INC?
INASMUCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $651,933 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAINBOW FLEET INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 22 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