Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$776,489

Total expenses

$797,172

Contributions and grants received

$781,489

Grants paid

$325,911

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

-$5,000

Total assets, end of year

$74,492

Total liabilities, end of year

-$804

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$75,296

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$662,545

Management and general expenses

$127,514

Fundraising expenses

$7,113

Program service expenses (Part III)

$662,545

Program services were 83.1% 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 · 2023

• RATIO REDUCTION SUBSIDY (2341): This activity includes subsidy rate enhancements available for facilities with a star rating of 4 or better for children under the age of six and may include best practice bonuses. Subsidize childcare for at risk children under the age of six in families eligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy families (TANF) who are participating in the Home Based Family Therapy activity.

  Expenses $244,943 · Grants $244,943

• CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL (3125;3105): This activity will coordinate and provide training on child care related topics, provide technical assistance to child care facilities, collect data and analysis for reporting and provide information to the public regarding early childhood issues. A resource library for parents and child care providers will be maintained.

  Expenses $126,698 · Grants $5,493

• EARLY EDUCATION OUTREACH (3318): This activity provides a part-day educational program in an early preschool setting using the DCDEE approved Firefly curriculum, Buttercups, that is aligned with North Carolina's Foundations for Early Learning and Development. Parents are provided with information and resources to encourage them to actively participate in their child's school experiences.

  Expenses $82,909 · Grants $172

• MONITORING AND EVALUATION (5603): Monitors each program to ensure programmatic and fiscal accountability and provides for the collection and reporting of data to ensure that the programs and the Partnership are meeting their expected goals and outcomes. The Partnership is accountable to the North Carolina Partnership for Children (Smart Start) and undergoes a biennial audit.

  Expenses $42,063

• HOME BASED FAMILY THERAPY (5415): Provides through Better Beginnings Inc. home-based family therapy and case management to those children with risk factors that have been associated with the development of negative outcomes later in life.

  Expenses $74,602 · Grants $71,835

• ENHANCED RATIO REDUCTION QUALITY SUBSIDY ADMINISTRATION (2361):This activity will provide services to support the implementation of the Ratio Reduction Subsidy activity including program administration; family outreach and application; eligibility determination; payment processing; annual recertification; and reporting, etc.

  Expenses $45,182

• PUBLIC AWARENESS (5517) - Participating medical care providers will incorporate early literacy into young children's regular pediatric checkups or well-child visits by providing parents with new, culturally and developmentally appropriate books to take home and read to their children. The medical care providers will discuss the importance of reading, model reading a book aloud to the child, and encourage parent-child interactions as part of pre-literacy and language development with an emphasis on children growing up in low-income communities.

  Expenses $15,088

• BABY STEPS PROGRAM/BASICS INSIGHTS (5506) - This activity serves families of children from pre-natal to early preschool age. Intensive support is provided to the participating families through in-home visits using the research based/practice informed Partners for a Healthy Baby Curriculum developed by Florida State University Center for Prevention and Early Intervention.

  Expenses $19,060

• DPIL (5526): Families in Carteret County with children age 0-5 may register to receive a new book every month from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Parents will be encouraged to read to their child regularly promoting a successful future for their child.

  Expenses $12,000

As filed on the 2023 return.

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.

Grants on this return

• ELA Kidsnet Holdings 3 LLC

  $97,590

  Purchase of Service

• Glenda Self

  $71,733

  Purchase of Service

• Childcare Network 73

  $61,190

  Purchase of Service

• Excel Learning Center 3

  $12,062

  Purchase of service

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 May 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

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