Alabama · Nonprofit
SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES
SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,500 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($8,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $245k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Sylvia Collins Ministries does
Mission
The mission of ALCD is to provide a safe affordable high quality child care in a developmentally appropriate environment for disadvantaged preschool and school age children. ALCD provides stimulating early care and an educational experience which promotes each childs individual social emotional physical and cognitive development. ALCD assists low-income parents by providing services based on the familys ability to pay. Children from battered homes veterans and homeless families are admitted into our program free of charge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We offer our services to the community so that low-income parents can obtain meaningful careers and further their education. Our organization works with low wealth families on a daily basis providing them with the child care needed so that the parents may work and free themselves from dependence on government assistance.
$89,782 spent$217,241 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $89,782.
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 $209k to $273k (+31%).
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: 2023 37% · 2024 22% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $0.
From the IRS filings of SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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 SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
38% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES: 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 SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES?
- SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,500 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($8,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,500 in grants to SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES?
- DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYLVIA COLLINS MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 3 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