Funding search · EIN 591146765 · Jacksonville, FL

Episcopal Children'S Services

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

840
grants reported
$147.0M
total given
2021–2024
filing years
$84,129
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20212024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

paymentsproviderreadinessschoolcovidrelief

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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

  • School Readiness and VPK payments to licensed childcare providers
  • Private child care centers and preschools in Northeast Florida
  • Faith-based preschools and church-run learning centers
  • County school district pre-K and elementary early learning programs
  • National childcare chains operating local sites (Kid City, O2B, La Petite)

Typical grant

Median payment is about $84,000, with the middle half falling between $27,000 and $199,000. The largest checks, from roughly $400,000 to over $1 million, go to high-enrollment sites like school district pre-K programs and multi-classroom academies in St. Johns, Clay, and Putnam counties. Payments repeat year over year because they are enrollment-based reimbursements to contracted providers, not competitive one-time awards.

Their words

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

  • SCHOOL READINESS / VPK PROVIDER PAYMENTS
  • SCHOOL READINESS
  • VPK PROVIDER PAYMENTS

Positioning adjacent work

  • Understand this is an early learning coalition paying enrolled providers, not a discretionary grantmaker funding outside projects.
  • If you run or partner with a licensed VPK site in their counties, provider contracting is the only real entry point.
  • Frame any research collaboration around school readiness outcomes for the children already served in their provider network.
  • Expect amounts tied to child enrollment counts, not a proposal budget; a $25,000 to $100,000 range reflects a small site.

Worth knowing: Virtually all money stays in Northeast Florida, concentrated in Duval, Clay, St. Johns, Putnam, Baker, Bradford, and Nassau counties; the handful of out-of-state entries are corporate headquarters addresses for locally operated centers. This is pass-through public early learning funding distributed to hundreds of contracted providers, so there is no charitable grants program in the conventional sense.

Top recipients

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

  • O2b Kids Durbin Creek2 grants · $4.2M
  • Kuehg Corp Kindercare1 grant · $3.0M
  • Brighton Day Academy3 grants · $2.9M
  • St Johns Coschools2 grants · $2.8M
  • Baker County Pre-K3 grants · $2.7M
  • Love N & Learning3 grants · $2.6M
  • Castle Brook Academy4 grants · $2.5M
  • La Petite Academy2 grants · $2.2M
  • O 2 B Kids 7 Llc3 grants · $2.2M
  • Tutor Time Childcare Learning3 grants · $2.2M

Giving over time

$7.3M
2021
$77.0M
2022
$37.7M
2023
$25.0M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 840 grants.

  • $3.2M

    O2b Kids Durbin Creek · Gainesville, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $3.0M

    Kuehg Corp Kindercare · Portland, OR · 2022

    Operational support

  • $1.8M

    O2b Kids Village South · Gainesville, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $1.7M

    Baker County Pre-K · Macclenny, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $1.6M

    St Johns Coschools · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $1.5M

    Brighton Day Academy · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $1.4M

    La Petite Academy · Novi, MI · 2022

    Operational support

  • $1.4M

    Round Lake Academy · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $1.4M

    Love N & Learning · Brooker, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $1.3M

    The Young Men'S Christian Association of Florida'S First Coast · Orange Park, FL · 2021

    Covid relief

  • $1.2M

    St Johns Coschools · St Augustine, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $1.2M

    O 2 B Kids 7 Llc · Gainesville, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $1.2M

    Tutor Time Childcare Learning · Novi, MI · 2022

    Operational support

  • $1.1M

    Sjcsd - Tech Tots · St Augustine, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $1.0M

    Castle Brook Academy · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $1.0M

    O2b Kids Durbin Creek · Gainesville, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $991,939

    A Child'S Garden · Keystone Height, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $959,240

    Kindercare · Orange Park, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $952,055

    The Academy at Julington Creek · St Johns, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $925,707

    Dye Clay Family Ymca · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $872,642

    Collage Day Schoolllc · Ponte Vedra Beach, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $846,895

    Clay County Schools · Green Cove Springs, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $841,912

    Castle Brook Academy · St Augustine, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $829,449

    La Petite Academy · Orange Park, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $826,355

    Bradford County Schools · Starke, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $796,902

    Orange Park Preschool · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $794,821

    Building Blocks Academy Llc · Callahan, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $792,907

    Brighton Day Academy · St Augustine, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $786,285

    Bartram Academy · St Johns, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $782,038

    Children'S World · Palatka, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $774,363

    Treasure Harbor Preschool · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $765,732

    Love N & Learning · Starke, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $762,547

    Sugar and Spice · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $758,932

    Imagination Island of Fleming Island · Fleming Island, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $753,559

    Childtime Childcare · Novi, MI · 2022

    Operational support

  • $750,807

    Ksm Schoolscrosswater Llc · Ponte Vedra, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $743,934

    Round Lake Academy · Palatka, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $708,050

    Calvary Baptist Church · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $693,934

    Brandt'S Child Care Center in · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $683,303

    School District of Clay County · Green Cove Springs, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $682,143

    Early Impressions Midtown · Yulee, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $675,568

    Step By Step Learning Center I · Fernandina Beach, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $648,877

    Island Prep Llc · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $644,156

    Sea Side Heights Llc · Ponte Vedra, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $642,418

    The Goddard School · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $633,647

    Hickory Grove Early Learning Center · Green Cove Springs, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $606,421

    Baker County Pre-K · Macclenny, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $595,502

    Womb To the World Ministries · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $595,384

    Putnam County School District · Palatka, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $586,954

    Tutor Time Childcare Learning · St Augustine, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $586,571

    Oakleaf Preschool & Childcare · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $582,260

    Putnam County School District · Palatka, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $582,204

    Kidz Klubhouse · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $569,446

    Sunshine State Early Ed Llc · Fleming Island, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $568,401

    Living Waters Preschool · Jacksonville, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $566,151

    Brighton Day Academy · St Augustine, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $563,351

    Guesa School Llc · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $563,192

    Ccsd-Clay Hill Elementary · Green Cove Springs, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $562,780

    Castle Brook Academy · St Augustine, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $558,507

    Edma School Llc · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $557,682

    Sunshine Early Learning and School Readiness Llc · Macclenny, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $534,138

    O 2 B Kids 7 Llc · Gainesville, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $533,715

    Round Lake Academy · Palatka, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $531,294

    Enchanted Forest Academy · St Augustine, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $525,236

    Putnam County School District · Palatka, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $524,350

    Ladybird Academy of Oakleaf Llc · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $521,431

    Children'S World · Palatka, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $515,127

    Ml Florida Group Inc Gingerbread Learning & Childcare · Ornge Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $509,886

    Sunshine Group Capital Llc · Ponte Vedra, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $507,827

    Boys & Girls Club of Nassau County Foundation · Fernandina Beach, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $504,574

    Love N & Learning · Brooker, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $494,983

    Pinewood Christian Academy · Middleburg, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $492,042

    St Johns Lb Llc · St Johns, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $482,642

    La Petite Academy #0094 · Middleburg, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $481,938

    Kinderace · Portland, OR · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $478,138

    Childtime Children'S Center · Orange Park, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $468,943

    Abc Child Care & Learning Cent · Macclenny, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $463,939

    Island Prep West · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $461,337

    Orange Park Kindergarten · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $454,112

    The Future Little Learners Center · Crescent City, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $454,047

    Orange Park Preschool · Orange Park, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $452,658

    River Christian Church · Fleming Island, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $448,222

    O 2 B Kids 7 Llc · Gainesville, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $444,725

    Brandt'S Child Care Center in · St Augustine, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $435,271

    A Bright Beginning Childcare · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $432,607

    The Goddard School of St Johns · St Johns, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $429,723

    Lovecare Daycare Learning Center · Palatka, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $426,684

    Womb To the World Ministries · St Augustine, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $424,389

    Kids World Child Care · Middleburg, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $423,100

    Leaps & Bounds Preschool Llc · Middleburg, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $415,204

    Northside Christian Academy · Starke, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $404,301

    Yulee Baptist Learning Center · Yulee, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $404,199

    Takila Anderson · St Augustine, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $404,079

    A Child'S Garden · Keystone Height, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $402,239

    Step By Step Learning Center I · Fernandina Beach, FL · 2023

    Operational Support

  • $402,064

    Baker County Pre-K · Macclenny, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $401,088

    Future Little Learners Ii · Crescent City, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $398,098

    Truth Holding Company · Orange Park, FL · 2022

    Operational support

  • $396,122

    Tutor Time Childcare Learning · Jacksonville, FL · 2024

    School readiness / vpk provider payments

  • $394,004

    Creekside Christian Church · St Johns, FL · 2022

    Operational support

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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.