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Grant recipient EIN 56-1514058

Who funds Early Years Inc?

15 private foundations gave Early Years Inc in Chapel Hill, NC $3.4 million across 40 grants, in tax years 2017 to 2024.

Grants listed on funders’ 990-PF returns for tax years 2017 to 2024, read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

Grants received by year

Grants from private foundations by the funder’s tax year. The latest year is in blue; it is not complete until all its returns reach the IRS.

Every foundation grant, by year

40 grants

Each line as the funder listed it on its return, newest year first, then largest.

  1. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2024

    Early Care and Education

    $200,000
  2. Stranahan FoundationPerrysburg, OH 2024

    Support for the development, piloting, evaluation, and refinement of its early childhood apprenticeship model framework.

    $125,000
  3. W Clement & Jessie V Stone FoundationChicago, IL 2024

    General Operating Support

    $50,000
  4. Dogwood Health TrustAsheville, NC 2024

    Participation in WNC after 3PM learning collaborative and synergy conference.

    $10,000
  5. Buffett Early Childhood FundOmaha, NE 2024

    Early years teach convening

    $1,000
  6. Fidelity FoundationBoston, MA 2024

    Fidelity matching gifts to education

    $200
  7. W Clement & Jessie V Stone FoundationChicago, IL 2023

    General Operating Support

    $50,000
  8. Z Smith Reynolds Foundation IncWinstonsalem, NC 2023

    Early childhood homelessness project

    $50,000
  9. Buffett Early Childhood FundOmaha, NE 2023

    Teach convening

    $2,500
  10. Fidelity FoundationBoston, MA 2023

    Fidelity matching gifts to education

    $500
  11. Fidelity FoundationBoston, MA 2023

    Fidelity matching gifts to education

    $200
  12. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2023

    General support

    $38
  13. Fidelity FoundationBoston, MA 2022

    Program development/evaluation

    $300,000
  14. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2022

    address inequities in higher education opportunity, compensation, and career mobility of the early childhood workforce

    $200,000
  15. Stranahan FoundationPerrysburg, OH 2022

    Support for the development, piloting, evaluation, and refinement of its early childhood apprenticeship model framework.

    $125,000
  16. Dogwood Health TrustAsheville, NC 2022

    This grant will provide child care services association (ccsa) with funds for staff and supplies, supporting their efforts to conduct qualitative research on the early care and education (ece) workforce in dogwoods service area.

    $62,074
  17. Z Smith Reynolds Foundation IncWinstonsalem, NC 2022

    Early childhood homelessness project

    $60,000
  18. W Clement & Jessie V Stone FoundationChicago, IL 2022

    General Operating Support

    $50,000
  19. Truist Foundation IncOrlando, FL 2022

    General operating

    $21,000
  20. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2022

    General support

    $75
  21. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2021

    address inequities in higher education opportunity, compensation, and career mobility of the early childhood workforce

    $200,000
  22. Pritzker Family FoundationChicago, IL 2021

    Collaboration to support early childhood development

    $166,500
  23. Pritzker Family FoundationChicago, IL 2021

    Collaboration to support early childhood development

    $166,500
  24. Z Smith Reynolds Foundation IncWinstonsalem, NC 2021

    NC early childhood/school age workforce registry project

    $70,000
  25. W Clement & Jessie V Stone FoundationChicago, IL 2021

    General Operating Support

    $50,000
  26. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2021

    General support

    $75
  27. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2020

    address inequities in higher education opportunity, compensation, and career mobility of the early childhood workforce

    $200,000
  28. Pritzker Family FoundationChicago, IL 2020

    Collaboration to support early childhood development

    $167,000
  29. William Randolph Hearst FoundationNew York, NY 2020

    Operating support

    $150,000
  30. W Clement & Jessie V Stone FoundationChicago, IL 2020

    General Operating Support

    $50,000
  31. Childtrust FoundationRaleigh, NC 2020

    To support child care programs during the pandemic and for ongoing efforts to ensure affordable, accessible, high quality child care for all families through research, services and advocacy

    $11,000
  32. Pritzker Family FoundationChicago, IL 2020

    Collaboration to support early childhood development

    $10,000
  33. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2020

    General support

    $69
  34. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2019

    strengthen the teaching workforce by developing, implementing and sustaining programs and strategies that result in a well-educated, fairly compensated and stable early childhood workforce

    $213,619
  35. W Clement & Jessie V Stone FoundationChicago, IL 2019

    to TEACH Early Childhood National Center

    $50,000
  36. Foundation for Child DevelopmentNew York, NY 2019

    Early childhood workforce

    $20,000
  37. Kohn Charitable TrustMcLean, VA 2019

    To support the shape NC program.

    $7,500
  38. Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family FoundationShreveport, LA 2019

    General operating

    $35
  39. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2018

    strengthen the teaching workforce by developing, implementing and sustaining programs and strategies that result in a well-educated, fairly compensated and stable early childhood workforce

    $234,375
  40. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2017

    strengthen the teaching workforce by developing, implementing and sustaining programs and strategies that result in a well-educated, fairly compensated and stable early childhood workforce

    $302,006

About this match

Funders write a recipient’s name and address, not its EIN. We matched these grants to EIN 56-1514058 by name and ZIP code against the IRS list of exempt organizations and our list of filers. Grants we could not tie to one organization are not counted here.