Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$41,930,899

Total expenses

$41,962,571

Contributions and grants received

$41,930,151

Grants paid

$40,839,806

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$748

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$4,474,895

Total liabilities, end of year

$4,696,289

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

-$221,394

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$41,610,215

Management and general expenses

$352,356

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$41,610,215

Program services were 99.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED THE SCHOOL READINESS PROGRAM TO TARGET THE AT-RISK BIRTH TO KINDERGARTEN POPULATION TO STREAMLINE THE SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR ALL PUBLICLY FUNDED EARLY EDUCATION AND CHILDCARE. LEADERSHIP IS PROVIDED TO THE COMMUNITIES OF BAKER, BRADFORD, CLAY, NASSAU, PUTNAM & ST. JOHNS COUNTIES IN PREPARING CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL BY ENHANCING EARLY LEARNING PROGRAMS THROUGH A SEAMLESS DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH A FOCUS ON NURTURING CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND PROVIDERS WITH THE OVERALL GOAL OF MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE. THE COALITION SERVED 310 CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IN BAKER COUNTY, 254 CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IN BRADFORD COUNTY, 1045 CHILDREN IN CLAY COUNTY, 234 CHILDREN IN NASSAU COUNTY, 970 CHILDREN IN PUTNAM COUNTY AND 1,077 CHILDREN IN ST. JOHNS COUNTY.

  Expenses $24,614,319 · Grants $23,846,610

• VOLUNTARY PRE-KINDERGARTEN (VPK) PROGRAMS WERE IMPLEMENTED BY THE ORGANIZATION IN AUGUST 2005. THE FLORIDA VPK EDUCATION STANDARDS WERE FORMALLY ADOPTED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION IN MARCH 2005. THIS EARLY LEARNING GUIDE DESCRIBES WHAT 4-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW AND BE ABLE TO DO BY THE END OF THEIR PRE-KINDERGARTEN YEAR AND IS DESIGNED TO GUIDE INSTRUCTORS IN DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING APPROPRIATE EARLY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS. THE COALITION SERVED 310 CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IN BAKER COUNTY, 226 CHILDREN IN BRADFORD COUNTY, 1,702 CHILDREN IN CLAY COUNTY, 596 CHILDREN IN NASSAU COUNTY, 486 CHILDREN IN PUTNAM COUNTY 2,872 CHILDREN IN ST. JOHNS COUNTY.

  Expenses $16,993,196 · Grants $16,993,196

• DESCRIPTION FOR CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE AND RELIEF SUPPLEMENTAL - GRANTEES WERE ELIGIBLE BASED ON CRITERIA DEVELOPED BY FLORIDA'S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, DIVISION OF EARLY LEARNING WHICH REQUIRED THAT THE GRANTEE WAS A LEGALLY OPERATING CHILD CARE PROGRAM WITHIN EITHER BAKER, BRADFORD, CLAY, NASSAU, PUTNAM OR ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA. THE AMOUNTS OF THE AWARDS WERE BASED ON WHETHER THE CHILD CARE WAS CONTRACTED TO PROVIDE SUBSIDIZED CHILD CARE OR VOLUNTARY PRE-KINDERGARTEN, HOW MANY CHILDREN THEY SERVED, WHETHER OR NOT THEY AGREED TO USE A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF THE GRANT FOR INCREASING STAFF COMPENSATION OR BENEFITS AND IF THEY WERE LOCATED WITHIN A CHILD CARE DESSERT. THESE GRANTS WERE FUNDED WITH CRRSA FUNDS RECEIVED BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA. GRANTEES COMPLETED AN APPLICATION TO QUALIFY AND THE APPLICATIONS WERE VERIFIED AND APPROVED BY EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF NORTH FLORIDA..

• DESCRIPTION FOR AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT -GRANTEES WERE ELIGIBLE BASED ON CRITERIA DEVELOPED BY FLORIDA'S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, DIVISION OF EARLY LEARNING WHICH REQUIRED THAT THE GRANTEE WAS A LEGALLY OPERATING CHILD CARE PROGRAM WITHIN EITHER BAKER, BRADFORD, CLAY, NASSAU, PUTNAM OR ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA. THE AMOUNTS OF THE AWARDS WERE BASED ON WHETHER THE CHILD CARE WAS CONTRACTED TO PROVIDE SUBSIDIZED CHILD CARE OR VOLUNTARY PRE- KINDERGARTEN, HOW MANY CHILDREN THEY SERVED, WHETHER OR NOT THEY AGREED TO USE A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF THE GRANT FOR INCREASING STAFF COMPENSATION OR BENEFITS AND IF THEY WERE LOCATED WITHIN A CHILD CARE DESSERT. THESE GRANTS WERE FUNDED WITH ARPA FUNDS RECEIVED BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA. GRANTEES COMPLETED AN APPLICATION TO QUALIFY AND THE APPLICATIONS WERE VERIFIED AND APPROVED BY THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF NORTH FLORIDA.

  Expenses $2,700

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

9 March 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.0

Source object

202630689349300018

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