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THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,012,880 to it, the largest being NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ($2,430,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What The Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida Inc does
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to enhance the quality of children's lives by providing families, early childhood educators, care- givers and community partners in collier, glades, hendry and lee counties, with opportunities to positively impact the future. The early learning programs have high quality standards, comprehensive services, seamless delivery systems with diverse settings, and well-educated, competent staff. The delivery systems for school readiness programs are comprised of child care providers and of school-based sites operated by public and nonpublic schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School readiness (sr) programs: empowers parents as a child's first teacher and helps them prepare their children to be ready for school through enrollment with sr providers. The providers offer developmentally appropriate curriculum; suitable staff to children ratios to ensure the success of each child; and the ability for parents to make an informed choice about the early childhood program that best fits their family's need. The early learning coalition of southwest florida supports the state program in collier, glades, hendry and lee counties by contracting for subsidized child care services with 230 school readiness providers; providing training and technical assistance for sr providers; 7,426 children participated in the school readiness program.
$29,949,193 spent50% of program spendingVoluntary pre-kindergarten (vpk): a legislatively mandated, statewide program designed to prepare every four-year-old and younger five-year-olds in florida for kindergarten and build the foundation for their educational success. The vpk program gives each child an opportunity for preparation to perform better in school and throughout life through participation in vpk. Providers contract to assure high literacy standards, accountability, appropriate curriculum, substantial instruction periods, manageable class sizes, and qualified instructors. The early learning coalition of southwest florida supports the vpk program in collier, glades, hendry and lee counties by contracting for voluntary pre-kindergarten services and supporting the development of high quality vpk providers. The program is available for four and five-year-old children in 250 sites serving 7,567 children in our 4-county region.
$29,711,065 spent50% of program spendingAmerican rescue plan act early learning discretionary grant: this initiative is funded from the american rescue plan (arp) act discretionary child care and development block grant trust fund in section 53 of chapter 2023-239, laws of florida. The purpose of this funding is to implement an early learning discretionary grant program for the following purposes: increasing/building the supply of child care, training, professional learning activities, and workforce initiatives, local initiatives/pilot projects to improve kindergarten readiness, community outreach and family engagement, equipment, supplies, classroom materials, curriculum, business administration computer software, early learning software and technology.
$30,000 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $59,690,258.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $6.1M to $8.6M (+40%).
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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Dr Melanie Stefanowicz
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $595k → $609k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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
THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 58% · 2019 58% · 2020 85% · 2021 56% · 2022 43% · 2023 33% — 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
63% of THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
93% of THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.
Against its field
THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
- THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,012,880 to it, the largest being NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ($2,430,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $4,012,880 in grants to THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
- NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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