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SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC

SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,449,050 to it, the largest being WINNESHIEK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT INC ($850,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$9.5M
3/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Sunflower Childcare Center Inc does

Mission

Provide children's preschool and day care. The organization serves between 115 and 120 full and part-time children.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide preschool and day care to children.

    $2,303,915 spent$1,607,028 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,303,915.

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 ($684k) Expenses 100 ($607k) Net assets 100 ($375k)2018 Revenue 95 ($653k) Expenses 109 ($662k) Net assets 97 ($365k)2019 Revenue 101 ($687k) Expenses 115 ($699k) Net assets 94 ($353k)2020 Revenue 85 ($579k) Expenses 116 ($705k) Net assets 86 ($324k)2021 Revenue 354 ($2.4M) Expenses 130 ($788k) Net assets 547 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 641 ($4.4M) Expenses 151 ($917k) Net assets 1636 ($6.1M)2023 Revenue 580 ($4.0M) Expenses 171 ($1.0M) Net assets 2479 ($9.3M)2024 Revenue 307 ($2.1M) Expenses 312 ($1.9M) Net assets 2533 ($9.5M)2025 Revenue 362 ($2.5M) Expenses 413 ($2.5M) Net assets 2524 ($9.5M)
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Revenue (362)Expenses (413)Net assets (2524)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 2022 to 2023, from $6.5M to $13M (+107%).

$559k
$554k
$536k
$501k
$2.2M
$6.5M
$13M
$13M
$12M
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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: 2022 32% · 2023 61% · 2024 20% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$76k
’17
−$10k
’18
−$12k
’19
−$126k
’20
$1.6M
’21
$3.5M
’22
$2.9M
’23
$204k
’24
−$35k
’25
1.1
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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Listed121312141411879
Joined·+6+4+3+0+3+0+1+2
No longer listed·55106320
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $225k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE 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

SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC.

59%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 76% · 2023 89% — 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

33% of SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

84% of SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

WI
IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $292k on record.

Federal$292k
grants $292kcontracts $0
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23
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$292k

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 SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC

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In Iowa

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC?
SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,449,050 to it, the largest being WINNESHIEK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT INC ($850,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,449,050 in grants to SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC?
WINNESHIEK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 12 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