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VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION

VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,788,055 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance ($1,783,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$87M
Revenue FY2025
24
Funders on record
$5.8M
Grants received
$4.0M
Net assets
13/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Against its field

VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)43% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.9M) Net assets 100 ($3.3M)2018 Revenue 110 ($5.6M) Expenses 139 ($5.4M) Net assets 107 ($3.6M)2019 Revenue 113 ($5.8M) Expenses 150 ($5.8M) Net assets 108 ($3.6M)2020 Revenue 239 ($12M) Expenses 316 ($12M) Net assets 109 ($3.6M)2021 Revenue 634 ($32M) Expenses 876 ($34M) Net assets 68 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 806 ($41M) Expenses 1054 ($41M) Net assets 85 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 1356 ($69M) Expenses 1780 ($69M) Net assets 107 ($3.6M)2024 Revenue 2075 ($106M) Expenses 2740 ($106M) Net assets 122 ($4.0M)2025 Revenue 1700 ($87M) Expenses 2257 ($87M) Net assets 119 ($4.0M)
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Revenue (1700)Expenses (2257)Net assets (119)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 84% · 2018 81% · 2019 92% · 2020 91% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.3M
17
$235k
18
$17k
19
$33k
20
$1.3M
21
$558k
22
$726k
23
$486k
24
$88k
25
1.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $483k → $930k.

7 of 24 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 VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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

VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION.

31%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 74% · 2019 72% · 2020 52% · 2021 27% · 2022 35% · 2023 54%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

67% of VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.

MI
VA
KS
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $708k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 24 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & 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

24
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION?
VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,788,055 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance ($1,783,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $5,788,055 in grants to VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION?
ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $1,783,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing