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SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN
SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN (South Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $527,670 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ($205,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $199k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $528k
- Net assets
- $53k
What South Dakota Association for the Education of Young Children does
Mission
Sdaeyc promotes high-quality care and early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Sdaeyc promotes high-quality care and early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children. This is accomplished by: (1) providing professional development opportunities for educators in the state of south dakota, including the early childhood education conference, sioux falls wow conference, and power hour online trainings.(2) advocating for early childhood education by participating in the early learner south dakota activities, the early learner summit, the child care business collaborative, the child care taskforce, and the children's day at the capitol.(3) working with communities using the national league of cities tool to assess and support communitiies so all children thrive.(4) providing support for sdaeyc members through chapter meetings, monthly community of practice meetings, community events, and leadership development training.
$179,983 spentof which $54,510 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $179,983.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $123k to $53k (−57%).
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.
92% of SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Janessa Bixel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $82k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN’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
SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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.
Where its funders are
SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k 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.
Against its field
SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN?
- SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN (South Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $527,670 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ($205,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $527,670 in grants to SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN?
- ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing