Georgia · Nonprofit
SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION
SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,532 to it, the largest being OSCAR & ELSA MAYER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($163,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $294k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $265k
- Net assets
- $0
What Savannah Early Childhood Foundation does
Mission
The Savannah Early Childhood Foundation will continue to secure funding and community partners, deploying those resources neighborhood-by-neighborhood for at-risk families' parent skills training, tracking and measuring parental knowledge acquisition and application, so parents become their children's first, best and most effective teachers and advocates from birth to age five, with the overall objective of all savannah children being school-ready (as defined by the savannah chatham county public school system) at school age. Additionally, elc's are designed with and for parents, to increase neighborhood participations to "critical mas", where attendance and application of training received becomes the community cultural norm, rather than the exception.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Continues to expand parent skills training at early learning colleges for savannah inner-city parents with children ages birth-to-3/4/5 years beyond the original nine targeted neighborhoods secf now serves, to those additional residential and church locations secf has been asked to serve with sessions (baby showers and special events) at each location to attract and introduce parents to early learning college training, while providing naeyc accredited childcare, skills acquisition measurement and increasing attendance of both parents and children. To accomplish this, the secf consults with new parents to provide a mutually developed needs assessment for early childhood education and parent skill enhancement for those resource-challenged families in the greater savannah, georgia area. As of december 31, 2020, the organization transferred its assets to community united services to continue a similar work.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $167k to $553k (+231%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $56k → $8.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION’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
SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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: 2017 54% · 2018 79% · 2019 53% · 2020 64% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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 FY2021, 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
SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Organizations like SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% 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 SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION: 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 SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION?
- SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,532 to it, the largest being OSCAR & ELSA MAYER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($163,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $264,532 in grants to SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION?
- OSCAR & ELSA MAYER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $163,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVANNAH EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 8 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