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WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC

WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,607,712 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($367,297). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5.6M
Revenue FY2025
17
Funders on record
$1.6M
Grants received
$4.3M
Net assets
9/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Against its field

WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 99 ($3.1M) Expenses 107 ($3.0M) Net assets 108 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 104 ($3.2M) Expenses 110 ($3.1M) Net assets 117 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 120 ($3.7M) Expenses 124 ($3.5M) Net assets 135 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 141 ($4.4M) Expenses 138 ($3.8M) Net assets 177 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 149 ($4.6M) Expenses 161 ($4.5M) Net assets 185 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 160 ($5.0M) Expenses 158 ($4.4M) Net assets 229 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 188 ($5.9M) Expenses 175 ($4.9M) Net assets 308 ($3.5M)2025 Revenue 178 ($5.6M) Expenses 166 ($4.7M) Net assets 382 ($4.3M)
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Revenue (178)Expenses (166)Net assets (382)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 79% · 2018 81% · 2019 88% · 2020 75% · 2021 71% · 2022 67% · 2023 61% · 2024 60% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$317k
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$93k
18
$171k
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$268k
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$530k
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$137k
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$552k
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$959k
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$899k
25
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $43k → $141k.

8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)60% 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 WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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

WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

98% 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 WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC.

23%
largest funder
68%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 64% · 2019 53% · 2020 22% · 2021 40% · 2022 44% · 2023 37%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

55% of WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

60% of WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $646k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Colorado funders.

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

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $962k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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 17 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.

Government funding WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.7M on record.

Federal$27.7M
grants $27.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$27.7M

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 WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC

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 Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
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 WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: 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 WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC?
WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,607,712 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($367,297). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,607,712 in grants to WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC?
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $367,297 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILD PLUM CENTER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 17funders 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