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THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS

THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400,000 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 1 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 FY2022
$260k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$400k
Net assets
$0
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What The Early Learning Center of Brookings does

Mission

Operate a high quality preschool and childcare center

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operate a high quality preschool and childcare center.

    $351,671 spent$73,629 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $351,671.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($114k)2019 Revenue 92 ($1.5M) Expenses 97 ($1.5M) Net assets 135 ($154k)2020 Revenue 73 ($1.2M) Expenses 88 ($1.3M) Net assets 16 ($18k)2021 Revenue 94 ($1.5M) Expenses 93 ($1.4M) Net assets 130 ($148k)2022 Revenue 16 ($260k) Expenses 23 ($352k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20182019202020212022
Revenue (16)Expenses (23)Net assets (0)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 2021 to 2022, from $148k to $0 (−100%).

$114k
$157k
$22k
$148k
$0
20182019202020212022
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

72% of THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$114k
’18
$40k
’19
−$136k
’20
$130k
’21
−$91k
’22
1.3
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.

20182019202020212022
Listed55555
Joined·+1+0+5+0
No longer listed·1050
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250k → $150k.

Funder
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1

1 of 1 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 THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS’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.

Where its funders are

100% of THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS'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. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS's revenue fell 84% between 2018 and 2022.

Operating margin−35% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−37% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,864 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SD

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS?
THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400,000 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 1 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 THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $400,000 in grants to THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS?
SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF BROOKINGS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 1 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