Indiana · Nonprofit
ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC
ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,710,094 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,099,400). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $12M
What St Mary's Child Center Inc does
Mission
The children we serve are inherently competent, capable, and strong, St. Mary's Child Center: * Impacts pre-school children in poverty -- who are at life and learning risk -- with the highest quality cognitive, creative, social, physical, and emotional learning experiences that will transition into a foundation for lifelong success. * Integrates highly effective professional educators with a proven learning philosophy. * Uses qualitative measures to show impact. * Is accountable to the children and families served, stakeholders and contributors, and the early childhood learning community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FAMILY ENGAGEMENT: St. Mary's Child Center provides a family engagement program for the families of our preschool students. All families in the program are welcome to participate. We offer family activities throughout the year. Families meet with Educators and Staff to interact in the centers and learn more about what is happening in the classrooms. A large snack or meal is provided during this time. We work with families year-round to assist in finding resources and necessary services. The program aspect works to assist the family.
$66,154 spent2% of program spendingPRESCHOOL CURRICULUM: St. Mary's Early Childhood Center served 183 children daily and maintained a low adult-to-child ratio of 1:7 to support social-emotional, cognitive, and physical development. A high-quality curriculum promoted school readiness and mitigated developmental risk. The program used the I-SPROUT Early Learning Assessment System, a whole-child, play-based tool, to measure individual progress. In May 2025, staff analyzed assessment data for 84 five-year-olds transitioning to kindergarten. Children were assessed three times during the year through documented classroom interactions. Results showed more than one full level of growth in key areas, including self-control, following directions, literacy comprehension, object counting, and understanding two-dimensional shapes. Children living in poverty typically entered kindergarten at a 3-4 year developmental level.
$3,136,360 spent$132,766 earned by the program95% of program spendingPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: The Professional Development Program provides professional development opportunities for community educators. The focus areas include the Educational Philosophy from Reggio Emilia, Italy, Project Work, and Applied Educational Neuroscience research and practices for behavioral health for children and the adults who serve them. Research indicates life changing, positive outcomes for children who are involved in high quality early learning programs. The intention of the Professional Development Program is to share practices that can improve program quality for other programs and therefore, improve outcomes for young children served in all schools. The staff provides seminars, tours, and classroom internships. We present at conferences and provide work force development to individual programs as designed by the specific program's needs. From July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, we worked with 683 educators. They represented programs from around the state.
$100,212 spent$6,750 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,302,726.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.9M to $11M (+502%).
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 26% · 2018 21% · 2019 7% · 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 32% · 2023 8% · 2024 13% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Michelle Radomsky
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $619k → $800k.
14 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 89% · 2019 58% · 2020 63% · 2021 52% · 2022 37% · 2023 51% — 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
54% of ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 2 related entities
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis · exempt
- Catholic Community Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC?
- ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,710,094 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,099,400). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $12,710,094 in grants to ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,099,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 64 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