California · Nonprofit
San Francisco Early Learning Alliance
San Francisco Early Learning Alliance (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $774,100 to it, the largest being MIMI AND PETER HAAS FUND ($774,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $583k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $774k
- Net assets
- $258k
What San Francisco Early Learning Alliance does
Mission
The San Francisco Early Learning Alliance mission is to provide high quality business services exclusively for child care centers to improve program quality. The Alliance team has deep experience navigating early learning funding streams and requirements, and works to free up center leaders and staff from burdensome administrative duties, so that they can focus their time on what matters most: children, families and teachers. The Alliance works in service of their client centers, customizing services provided to meet their unique needs and circumstances. Services offered by the Alliance include: accounting, child care subsidy management, data management and reporting and human resources compliance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The San Francisco Early Learning Alliance provides services to twelve childcare agencies operating fourteen sites spread across the city of San Francisco. Collectively the sites serve 709 children representing the racial and economic diversity of the area. Approximately 82% of the enrollment of our participating agencies is considered low income and receives funding from the State of California, City of San Francisco as well as some private scholarships. The Alliance collaborates with other shared service organizations across the country to share information regarding best practices, failures, and lessons learned in hopes of improving efficiencies in the sector overall.
$484,060 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $484,060.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $142k to $227k (+60%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of San Francisco Early Learning Alliance’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $272k.
From the IRS filings of San Francisco Early Learning Alliance’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
San Francisco Early Learning Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 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 San Francisco Early Learning Alliance's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
San Francisco Early Learning Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like San Francisco Early Learning Alliance
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 San Francisco Early Learning Alliance: 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 San Francisco Early Learning Alliance?
- San Francisco Early Learning Alliance (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $774,100 to it, the largest being MIMI AND PETER HAAS FUND ($774,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Francisco Early Learning Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $774,100 in grants to San Francisco Early Learning Alliance, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Francisco Early Learning Alliance?
- MIMI AND PETER HAAS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $774,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Francisco Early Learning Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2024), 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