Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION
SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,883,438 to it, the largest being LEGO COMMUNITY FUND US INC ($860,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Springfield Day Nursery Corporation does
Mission
Square one is committed to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to succeed at school, at work and in life by providing educational programs, family support services, health and fitness resources, and a voice in the community. We know that children grow up to become better educated and productive when they have high quality early education, nurturing adults to care for them, and a safe and health community in which to live. At the core of everything we do is our belief, confirmed by research, that children who begin learning early become better learners for life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preschool - daycare services provided to 348 preschool children at various daycare facilities.
$4,712,501 spentof which $807,983 as grants$3,046,866 earned by the program36% of program spendingFamily child care- in-home daycare services provided to 383 children by various licensed family child care providers.
$3,972,419 spent$4,446,718 earned by the program31% of program spendingFood - nutrition provided to 731 children in care services.
$480,196 spent$447,100 earned by the program4% of program spendingParent services-support to 290 parents of children in the program.
$1,247,608 spent10% of program spendingHealthy families-providing home visitation services to families who are first time parents under the age of 21. The program provides support to the family from the time of pregnancy until the child is 3 years old. Support includes various classes on parenting skills, reading, education, finances and nutrition. 278 families served.
$1,779,446 spentof which $435,530 as grants14% of program spendingMhvi-providing home visitation services to families addressing the needs of pregnant women, parents with children from birth to age 3, and first time parents with children of any age. Support includes intensive home visiting and creation of an individual family service plan by joining community resources and partners to provide supportive services and family education. 44 families served.
$269,038 spent2% of program spendingFamily support - first steps together (families in recovery support) is a peer coaching and parenting support program for moms recovering from opioid dependence. This is a unique home visiting program, wheere clients are matched with a family recovery support specialist who is a person in recovery with specialized training. They will provide support for both recovery and early parenting. This program assisted 45 families in recovery.
$536,479 spent4% of program spendingPerinatal early child program - family services capacity building serving 21 clients during the fiscal year.
$4,202 spent0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,001,889.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $24M (+59%).
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 31% · 2021 42% · 2022 41% · 2023 38% · 2024 30% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Dawn Distefano
President/CEO
Board chair
Corrine Ryan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $89k → $1.2M.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.6M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
37% 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 SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 42% · 2019 35% · 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 52% · 2023 42% — 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
50% of SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $556k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $61.1M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$58.2M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Square One 947 Main Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION?
- SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,883,438 to it, the largest being LEGO COMMUNITY FUND US INC ($860,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,883,438 in grants to SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION?
- LEGO COMMUNITY FUND US INC is the largest funder on record, with $860,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 27 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