Funding search · EIN 481102008 · Salina, KS

Kansas Association of Child Care

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

1,379
grants reported
$142.9M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$60,676
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • Child care community partnership grants to rural Kansas counties
  • Sustainability and provider subsidy payments to licensed child care operators
  • Shared services network hub payments to regional intermediaries
  • Patterson Family Foundation community capacity grants for local child care builds
  • Health and safety, start-up stipends, and program administration awards to providers

Typical grant

Median grant is about $60,700, with the middle half between $32,400 and $82,450. The very large checks, from several hundred thousand up to $4.7 million, went in 2023 to high-volume licensed operators and municipal or YMCA/Boys and Girls Club systems under sustainability and provider subsidy incentive payments; the small checks, $5,000 to $20,000, are start-up stipends, health and safety awards, and FPS/PAS payments to individual centers and LLCs. Recipients frequently repeat across years and stack multiple award types in a single year, so the relationship is ongoing rather than one-time.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • CHILD CARE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP GRANT
  • SHARED SERVICES NETWORK HUB PAYMENT
  • PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION COMMUNITY CAPACITY GRANT
  • PROVIDER SUBSIDY INCENTIVE
  • SUSTAINABILITY GRANT
  • START UP STIPEND

Positioning adjacent work

  • Anchor to the child care community partnership frame and name a specific Kansas county or school district partner.
  • Ask in the $30,000 to $85,000 band unless you operate licensed slots at scale.
  • Emphasize capacity built, slots added, and sustainability of the provider rather than research outputs.
  • Partner with an existing shared services hub or county economic development corporation as fiscal host.

Worth knowing: This is effectively a statewide child care intermediary: 1,353 of 1,379 grants went to Kansas recipients, and the handful of out-of-state checks went to multi-site operators serving Kansas children. Money moved sharply between years, with 2023 dominated by very large sustainability and provider subsidy payments to big urban operators and 2024 shifting toward smaller rural community partnership and Patterson Family Foundation capacity awards.

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Johnson County Parks&Rec District2 grants · $16.2M
  • Ymca of Greater Kansas City3 grants · $9.1M
  • Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence1 grant · $2.3M
  • Ymca of Wichita Ks2 grants · $1.7M
  • City of Wichita2 grants · $1.6M
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Topeka1 grant · $1.5M
  • Kuehg Corp Kindercare Education Llc2 grants · $1.2M
  • Boys & Girls Club of Manhattan1 grant · $1.2M
  • Cadence Education Llc2 grants · $1.2M
  • Boys and Girls' Club of Lawrence Lawrence Kansas1 grant · $1.1M

Giving over time

$89.7M
2022
$49.1M
2023
$4.1M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,379 grants.

  • $11.5M

    Johnson County Parks&Rec District · Shawnee Mission, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $7.1M

    Ymca of Greater Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2022

    Start up stipend, sustainability grant

  • $4.7M

    Johnson County Parks&Rec District · Shawnee, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $2.3M

    Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence · Lawrence, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $2.0M

    Ymca of Greater Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive, start upstipend

  • $1.5M

    Boys & Girls Clubs of Topeka · Topeka, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $1.2M

    Boys & Girls Club of Manhattan · Manhattan, KS · 2022

    Start up stipend, sustainability grant

  • $1.2M

    Ymca of Wichita Ks · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $1.1M

    Boys and Girls' Club of Lawrence Lawrence Kansas · Lawrence, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant

  • $1.0M

    Usd 259-Wichita Public Schools · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $1.0M

    City of Wichita · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $812,500

    Cadence Education Llc · Scottsdale, AZ · 2022

    Start up stipend, sustainability grant

  • $810,000

    Kuehg Corp Kindercare Education Llc · Portland, OR · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $807,000

    Boys & Girls Club of Scks · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Start up stipend, sustainability grant

  • $794,200

    Boys & Girls Club of Manhattan · Manhattan, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant

  • $755,200

    The Boys and Girls' Club of Topeka · Topeka, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant

  • $664,600

    La Petite Academy · Topeka, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $648,000

    City of Haysville · Haysville, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $545,968

    City of Wichita · Wichita, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $544,200

    Unified School District No 259 · Wichita, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $518,175

    Ymca of Wichita Ks · Wichita, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $504,000

    Nrc Clubhouse · Newton, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $504,000

    Shawnee County · Topeka, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $419,000

    Kuehg Corp Kindercare Education Llc · Lake Oswego, OR · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $414,000

    Ymca of Salina Ks · Salina, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $408,800

    Newton Recreation Commission · Newton, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $405,000

    Jewish Community Center of Greater Kc · Overland Park, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $397,000

    Cadence Education Llc · Scottsdale, AZ · 2023

    Sustainability grant

  • $392,661

    Northwest Kansas Economic Innovation Center · Norton, KS · 2024

    Shared services network hub payment

  • $390,600

    Child Start · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $382,400

    City of Haysville · Haysville, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $356,400

    City of Olathe · Olathe, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $351,000

    Open Minds Child Development Center Llc · Olathe, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $333,000

    Young Women'S Christian Assoc of Topeka · Topeka, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $328,500

    Tdc Learning Centers · Topeka, KS · 2022

    Quality improvement grant, pas grant, sustainability grant

  • $326,500

    Guidepost Montessori · Leawood, KS · 2022

    Start up stipend, sustainability grant

  • $324,000

    Church of the Resurrection United Methodist · Leawood, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $324,000

    Derby Recreation Commission · Derby, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $324,000

    Kriterion · Lawrence, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $324,000

    Pulliam Properties Llc · Olathe, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $324,000

    The Wee Workshop · Overland Park, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $324,000

    Usd 260-Derby · Derby, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $322,200

    Unified School District No 260 · Derby, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $280,619

    The Family Conservancy · Kansas City, KS · 2024

    Shared services network hub payment, child care community partnership grant

  • $275,400

    Gouge Refurbishing · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $252,000

    Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $244,800

    Kiddi Kollege · Olathe, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $244,673

    Community Children'S Center · Lawrence, KS · 2024

    Shared services network hub grant, child care community partnership grant

  • $244,500

    Most Pure Heart of Mary Church · Topeka, KS · 2022

    Pas grant, quality improvement, sustainability grant

  • $244,500

    State of Kansas Edna a Hill Cdc & P · Lawrence, KS · 2022

    Pas grant, sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    Abundant Heart Caycare Llc · Lansing, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    City of Manhattan · Manhattan, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    Clks 1 Llc · Olathe, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    First Christian Church Child Care Center · Topeka, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    Kiddy Kollege Llc · Plano, TX · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    Kids Kampus · McPherson, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    Little Learners Early Childhood Ctr · Olathe, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    McPherson Family Ymca · McPherson, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    Parkwood Day School Llc · Leawood, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    Premier Learning Llc · Overland Park, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    Special Beginnings · Lenexa, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    Tree House Learning Center · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $243,000

    Trinity United Methodist Church · Hutchinson, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $226,800

    Family Resource Center · Pittsburg, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $218,429

    Child Start · Wichita, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant

  • $216,430

    Ymca of Salina Ks · Salina, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $213,000

    Shawnee County · Topeka, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $208,800

    East Central Ks Economic Opportunity Corp · Ottawa, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $207,000

    Kiddi Kollege · Leawood, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $207,000

    Word of Life Ministries and Schools · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $198,600

    Jewish Community Center of Kansas City · Overland Park, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant

  • $198,000

    Clay County Child Care Center · Clay Center, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $196,239

    Erc Child Care Aware of Eastern Kansas · Topeka, KS · 2024

    Shared services network hub payment

  • $194,400

    Ascension Lutheran Church · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $194,400

    Usd 273-Beloit 2020 N Independence Ave · Beloit, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $190,800

    Gps Kids Club · Hoisington, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $189,000

    La Petite Academy Learning Care Group · Merriam, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $188,000

    Tdc Learning Centers · Topeka, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $187,200

    Ymca of Swks · Garden City, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $185,400

    Creche Llc · Manhattan, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $182,100

    McPherson Family Ymca · McPherson, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive, pas #1 grant

  • $182,000

    Mulvane Recreation Commission · Mulvane, KS · 2022

    Pas grant, quality improvement, sustainability grant

  • $180,800

    Mulvane Recreation Foundation · Mulvane, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive, pas #1 grant

  • $180,000

    Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $179,800

    Boys Clubs of Greater Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $179,800

    Kriterion · Lawrence, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $178,200

    Cool Care Club Llc · Manhattan, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $178,200

    Usd 333 Concordia · Concordia, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $177,150

    Family Resource Center · Pittsburg, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, provider subsidy incentive

  • $176,400

    Kansas Children'S Service League · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $175,075

    City of Olathe · Olathe, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant

  • $171,000

    Village Church Child & Family Dev Ctr · Overland Park, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $165,300

    Open Minds Child Development Center Llc · Olathe, KS · 2023

    Sustainability grant, start up stipend, pas grant # 1, pas grant # 2

  • $165,000

    Eden Early Learning Academy · Cherryvale, KS · 2024

    Child care community partnership grant, patterson family foundation community capacity grant, community grant

  • $165,000

    St John'S Child Development Center Llc · Ellinwood, KS · 2022

    Pas grant, sustainability grant

  • $164,500

    Trinity Family of Faith Lutheran Church · Basehor, KS · 2022

    Sustainability grant

  • $164,000

    Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church · Manhattan, KS · 2022

    Quality improvement grant, sustainability grant

  • $164,000

    Plymouth Congregational Church · Wichita, KS · 2022

    Pas grant, quality improvement, sustainability grant

  • $164,000

    Prince of Peace Catholic Church · Olathe, KS · 2022

    Pas grant, sustainability grant

  • $164,000

    Salina Child Care Association · Salina, KS · 2022

    Pas grant, sustainability grant

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.