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STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC

STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,475 to it, the largest being SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,475). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$745k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$246k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Strong Beginnings Early Learning Center Inc does

Mission

To provide affordable child care and early learning for the general public in which substantially all the child care activities are designed to allow parents to seek and hold employment

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide affordable child care and early learning for the general public in which substantially all the child care activities are designed to allow parents to seek and hold employment

    $645,663 spent$744,633 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $645,663.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($259k) Expenses 100 ($252k) Net assets -227 ($-49653)2018 Revenue 113 ($292k) Expenses 99 ($248k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2019 Revenue 120 ($311k) Expenses 116 ($293k) Net assets 230 ($50k)2020 Revenue 113 ($293k) Expenses 114 ($287k) Net assets 468 ($102k)2021 Revenue 180 ($466k) Expenses 158 ($399k) Net assets 1068 ($233k)2022 Revenue 203 ($524k) Expenses 195 ($490k) Net assets 705 ($154k)2023 Revenue 231 ($598k) Expenses 208 ($525k) Net assets 476 ($104k)2024 Revenue 255 ($658k) Expenses 241 ($607k) Net assets 854 ($186k)2025 Revenue 288 ($745k) Expenses 272 ($685k) Net assets 1124 ($246k)
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Revenue (288)Expenses (272)Net assets (1124)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $54k to $154k (+187%).

$4k
$26k
$54k
$154k
$240k
$155k
$118k
$211k
$245k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 19% · 2022 19% · 2023 18% · 2024 15% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

23% of STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
$43k
’18
$17k
’19
$6k
’20
$67k
’21
$34k
’22
$73k
’23
$51k
’24
$59k
’25
2.2
months of
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.

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Listed1010111066666
Joined·+0+3+0+2+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·02160000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC’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

STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC?
STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,475 to it, the largest being SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,475). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,475 in grants to STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC.
Who is the largest funder of STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC?
SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2 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