Missouri · Nonprofit
URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,471,725 to it, the largest being BERGES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Urban Sprouts Child Development Center does
Mission
Urban sprouts is a joyful, diverse, and inclusive educational community that honors and empowers every aspect of children's learning, our goal is to support each child in his or her development as a socially capable, crative, and inspired citizen.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Urban sprouts programs are project based learning programs that build social, emotional, physical, and cognitive skills of pre-kindergarten children. At urban sprouts, primary efforts are made to ensure that all children feel personally known and included, and that his or her presence contributes fundamentally to the urban sprouts school community. Children feel important and valued when others listen, seek out their ideas, and allow them to express themselves. When students feel safe, cared for and valued, they take healthy risks required to tackle the tasks that strenghten their cognitive abilities as well as their social and physical abilities.
$2,405,224 spentof which $15,752 as grants$522,128 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,405,224.
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 $361k to $7.0M (+1843%).
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 18% · 2018 57% · 2019 54% · 2020 89% · 2021 94% · 2022 58% · 2023 27% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Ellicia Lanier
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $25k → $705k.
9 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER’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
URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 65% · 2019 66% · 2020 74% · 2021 38% · 2022 81% · 2023 60% — 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
18% of URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
66% of URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $448k 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
URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$150k
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 URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 6757 Olive Holdings · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: 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 URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER?
- URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,471,725 to it, the largest being BERGES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,471,725 in grants to URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER?
- BERGES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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