Missouri · Nonprofit
SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,085,627 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($1,882,075). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Southside Early Childhood Center does
Mission
Every child has potential, but not every child has opportunity. At southside, we know that early childhood education can be the difference between being left behind and leading the way. Our mission is to create lasting opportunity in the lives of our children-and their families-by providing the best in early childhood education and support services. We put our mission into action through our four pillars of education, health, connection, and thought leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, Southside Early Childhood Center provided high quality early childhood education, health, early intervention and family support services to 260 children, ages six weeks to five years of age. Southside programming focuses on promoting children's cognitive, social-emotional, language, and physical development in a diverse and inclusive setting. In addition, we provide family support services to increase financial stability, increase parenting skills and reduce overall family stress. On average, 90% of children meet or exceed developmental expectations each year.
$4,183,872 spentof which $17,345 as grants$597,979 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,183,872.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.7M to $6.4M (+12%).
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: 2017 36% · 2018 34% · 2019 3% · 2020 11% · 2021 27% · 2022 57% · 2023 60% · 2024 53% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Leah Hawkins
Executive director
Board chair
Pat Miller
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $382k → $495k.
12 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% 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 SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 60% · 2019 51% · 2020 36% · 2021 40% · 2022 31% · 2023 37% — 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
51% of SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
94% of SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $651k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Southside · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: 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 SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER?
- SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,085,627 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($1,882,075). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $5,085,627 in grants to SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,882,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 57 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