Virginia · Nonprofit
YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC
YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,515 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ROCKBRIDGE INC ($211,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $412k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Yellow Brick Road Early Learning Center Inc does
Mission
Yellow brick road early learning center, inc., is a non-profit organization for children ages six weeks to six years, is guided by the complimentary values of social diversity, personal responsibility, and developmentally appropriate education. (see schedule o) embracing our role as an institution that both serves and is sustained by the local community, yellow brick road is one of the childhood facilities in the rockbridge area providing need-based scholarships. Believing that every child has the potential to be a productive, engaged member of the community, yellow brick road seeks to lay an educational and social foundation for all students, guiding each child towards their potential in a loving and nurturing environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The company provides developmentally appropriate education and custodial care for children aged six weeks to six years. Yellow brick road is fully licensed to serve up to 94 children, operating year round, five days a week from 7:30am to 5:30pm. With 25 trained teachers, yellow brick road offers separate programs for infants, toddlers, two year olds, pre-school three year olds and pre-kindergarten four and five year olds. The facility provides two home cooked meals to every child every day. Yellow brick road derives its income from tuition, subsidies from the virginia department of social services and private fundraising, primarily from the local community. The company owns and operates its own facility at 410 yellow brick road in lexington, virginia.
$1,266,172 spent$785,354 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,266,172.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $1.7M (+21%).
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 22% · 2018 19% · 2019 21% · 2020 23% · 2021 38% · 2022 43% · 2023 33% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Misty Camden
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $23k → $51k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER 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
YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.
Against its field
YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC 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
Organizations like YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC?
- YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,515 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ROCKBRIDGE INC ($211,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $411,515 in grants to YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF ROCKBRIDGE INC is the largest funder on record, with $211,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC 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.
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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 6 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