Colorado · Nonprofit
SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,021,809 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($631,017). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Sewall Child Development Center does
Mission
Sewall Child Development Center provides inclusive and joyful learning environments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preschool - children, ages two and one-half to five, of all abilities, including those needed specialized supports, are taught in preschool classes based on an education model where children of all abilities learn together. Sessions are five days weekly for half a day at five locations. Therapies are integrated into classroom activities in the most natural way possible. The "read, play and learn" curriculum provides the basis for sewall's early intervention in preschool, and is implemented in a trans-disciplinary, play-based approach. The trans-disciplinary approach encompasses cognitive, social-emotional, sensorimotor, communication and language perspectives. Development and learning is encouraged across domains. The curriculum focuses on incorporating activities that motivate each child, and as a result of the teachers' role as facilitator, each child has individualized instruction. The team, including an early childhood teacher, teaching assistant, early childhood special educator, occupational or physical therapist, speech/language pathologist and school psychologist, plan the curriculum on a weekly basis. Using familiar stories, the team provides a theme-based approach to…
$1,881,539 spent$1,128,667 earned by the program29% of program spendingHead start disability services - sewall provides services to children with individual education plans enrolled in head start classrooms throughout denver. Sewall's team of specialists carries out activities needed to conduct observations, screen and assess children as well as develop individual educational plans in all denver head start sites. After their assessment, the team creates an appropriate plan of educational interventions for the child.
$1,788,106 spent$366,000 earned by the program27% of program spendingChildcare - sewall's accredited childcare program offers full-day, "wraparound" care for toddlers between the ages of one-and-a-half to three, and preschoolers between the ages of two-and-a-half and five. The childcare program is a model for incorporating children of all abilities in classrooms at four sites. Learning is strengthened and reinforced as the child's individual plan and class curriculum are communicated between toddler/preschool and childcare staff.
$2,408,073 spentof which $17,455 as grants$710,919 earned by the program37% of program spendingInfant/toddler - children, from birth to age three, having qualified for an individual family service plan, and their parents are provided early intervention services in a variety of settings, including home and childcare. The child's potential is developed within the context of typical daily activities. Early childhood educators consider play a child's work. Beginning at age two, parents may enroll their child in a transitional toddler/preschool program at sewall for children of all abilities.
$286,538 spent$161,609 earned by the program4% of program spendingDisability p&l - kept full team of specialists to conduct observations, screen and assess children and develop individual education plans as appropriate in all denver head start sites. Staff also provide consultation, activities, and support staff in all classroom interventions.
$159,094 spent$131,245 earned by the program2% of program spendingFamily outreach - sewall's social workers partner with parents to involve them in decisions about their children and their children's programs, and to assist them in needed resources in the community. Partners in leadership, comprised of monthly weekend advocacy sessions, is training for a cohort of twenty families during the school year.
$22,788 spent$19,863 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,546,138.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $8.1M to $7.3M (−10%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 13% · 2022 17% · 2023 28% · 2024 22% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Heidi Heissenbuttel
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $345k → $870k.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 41% · 2019 24% · 2020 33% · 2021 21% · 2022 17% · 2023 23% — 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
64% of SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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 SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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
SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER?
- SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,021,809 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($631,017). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $4,021,809 in grants to SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER?
- MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $631,017 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 35 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