Florida · Nonprofit
THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC
THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC (Florida) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,159,718 to it, the largest being THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC ($11,909,998). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc does
Mission
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. Our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young children". We envision a time when every child will be loved, nurtured and encouraged to reach their full potential. Children from birth through ten years old in sarasota, charlotte, manatee, desoto and hardee counties can receive early education and therapeutic services. Services include mental health therapy, speech and occupational therapies, behavioral support, inclusion-model preschool, in-home parenting support and florida's only fetal alcohol spectrum disorders diagnostic clinic (available statewide).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Central florida behavioral health network: central florida behavioral health network provides a full array of publically funded mental health and substance use services in the suncoast counties of charlotte, collier, desoto, glades, hardee, hendry, highlands, hillsborough, lee, manatee, pasco, pinellas, polk, and sarasota. Services include acute care, residential treatment, housing, medical, outpatient, recovery suppport, and prevention. This program manages a quality behavioral health system of care that brings hope, help, and recovery to individuals, families, and communities.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
School-based mental health program: this is the final year of the school-based mental health program through the sarasota county school board, due to the board moving services internally.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Healthy families:healthy families is an award-winning evidence based program that promotes healthy child development, family stability, and self-sufficiency. This program prevents child abuse and neglect among high-risk families. Healthy families serves nearly 500 families annually in charlotte, desoto, hardee and sarasota counties, of which more than 95% of children in the program have no verified findings of abuse or neglect during the program or within 12 months of program completion.
$2,352,843 spent$436,466 earned by the program21% of program spendingEarly intervention services:early intervention services are provided by trained professionals that work hard to ensure children are reaching their goals for growth and development. Services include: developmental therapies (speech-language and occupational therapy) and our award-winning early childhood court program, which uses a specialized, team-based approach to help infants and toddlers in the child welfare system, with the goal of reducing the trauma they experience and ensure that they have a stable, permanent home more quickly than in traditional court proceedings. Early intervention services are provided to nearly 350 children, birth through age ten, and their families annually.
$2,354,670 spent$124,117 earned by the program21% of program spendingMental health/behavioral health therapies are available as both outpatient and school-based. The children receive therapies for a variety of issues that include aggression, grief of loss, exposure to a traumatic event, fear of anxiety and hyperactivity. Outpatient therapy is available at our sarasota and north port offices. The school-based component has therapists housed at 25 elementary schools in sarasota county. The mental health program serves over 1,600 children and 75 preschools annually. In addition, our teams are recognized nationally as experts in their field and train over 1,000 professionals across the united states annually.
$3,640,880 spent$705,910 earned by the program32% of program spendingFetal alcohol spectrum disorders (fasd):the florida center is home to the state's first and only fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (fasd) clinic. The purpose of the clinic is to diagnose issues related to prenatal alcohol exposure, as well as to provide education and training statewide on fasd. The clinic evaluates individuals of all ages. Problems related to pre-natal alcohol exposure can include language, motor and cognitive delays. The clinic completes over 220 diagnostic assessments and trains more than 500 professionals annually.
$1,380,846 spent$6,242 earned by the program12% of program spendingStarfish academy is a nationally accredited, inclusion preschool program serving children 6 weeks to 5 years old, including voluntary prekindergarten. Our highly trained, nurturing educators focus on teaching important skills to prepare children for success in kindergarten and beyond. The starfish academy incorporates music, art, and drama into our early childhood education to encourage growth for the "whole child." teachers work in tandem with therapists to provide a full range of service on-site, which helps children progress more quickly toward developmental goals. The academy has 2 locations serving north and south sarasota county and enrolls over 135 children annually.
$1,731,422 spent$430,621 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,460,661.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.6M to $3.6M (+42%).
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: 2017 65% · 2018 61% · 2019 57% · 2020 60% · 2021 64% · 2022 60% · 2023 54% · 2024 54% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Kristie Skoglund
CEO
Board chair
Eddie Perez-Ruberte
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $171k → $4.5M.
11 of 63 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 THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 48% · 2019 77% · 2020 72% · 2021 60% · 2022 59% · 2023 44% — 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
53% of THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
96% of THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD 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. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC?
- THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC (Florida) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,159,718 to it, the largest being THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC ($11,909,998). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $21,159,718 in grants to THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC?
- THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,909,998 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD 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.
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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 63 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