Virginia · Nonprofit
VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION
VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,223,055 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ($2,208,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Virginia Early Childhood Foundation does
Mission
Vecf is the non-partisan steward of virginia's promise for early childhood success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vecf administers several large grant initiatives with the goal of improving community and parental capacity to support young children's school readiness. Accomplishments include implementation of ready regions, a statewide network providing strategic leadership and public-private partnership to ensure every child and family has access to quality child care services, the mixed delivery program of full day, year-round child care services for low-income families with children from birth to age 5, coordinated enrollment of child care services, and family engagement in systems design.
$86,636,348 spentof which $80,431,521 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $86,636,348.
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 2021 to 2022, from $10M to $40M (+279%).
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Richard K Bynum
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $483k → $930k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 24 of 25 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 35% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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.
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; 52% 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
VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION?
- VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,223,055 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ($2,208,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $6,223,055 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 $2,208,000 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 25 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