Vermont · Nonprofit
TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC
TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,103 to it, the largest being THE COUCH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($55,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $207k
- Net assets
- $756k
What Treehouse Childrens School Inc does
Mission
To provide quality early childhood education for the families of the upper valley and elevate childhood by educating creatively, serving broadly, learning continuously, partnering meaningfully, and growing sustainably in our practice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For more than 50 years, treehouse children's school (formerly child care center in norwich), has provided quality early childhood education for the families of the upper valley. Tcs has a reputation for its skillful teachers, creative learning environment, and commitment to community. We pride ourselves on meeting the highest professional standards. We are accredited through naeyc (national association for the education of young children), a member of narea (north american reggio emilia alliance), and qualify as a "5 star" program in vermont, the top ranking in vermont's quality recognition system for early childhood programs. We are a reggio-inspired community guided by the foundational beliefs and principals outlined in the reggio approach. Our ultimate aim is to elevate childhood in our community and society at large.
$875,263 spent$1,065,176 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $875,263.
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.
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 $651k to $807k (+24%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 16% · 2023 9% · 2024 11% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Lisa Sjostrom
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $57.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL 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
TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 37% · 2022 99% · 2023 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
TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.
Government funding TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $490k on record.
- Child Care Subsidy Employ/Trai$442k
- Child Care Subsidy Family Supp$21k
- QCIP Annual Payment$13k
- Child Care Subsidy Protect SVC$8k
- Other Grants$6k
- Other Pers Serv$16
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 TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC?
- TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,103 to it, the largest being THE COUCH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($55,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $207,103 in grants to TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC?
- THE COUCH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 7 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