- Revenue 2024
- $3,313,077
- Expenses 2024
- $3,040,973
Program services were 82.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- S31
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 20 S SARAH ST
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
-
Charli Cooksey
Chief Executive Officer
- Total calculated
- $128,864
- From this org
- $128,864
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40 + 2 related
-
Christopher Dennis
Chief of Staff
- Total calculated
- $114,510
- From this org
- $114,510
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Marissa Cohen
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Erica Henderson
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rebeccah Bennett
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mary McKay
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Laura Horwitz
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jerina Phillips
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $3,313,077
- Expenses
- $3,040,973
- Contributions
- $3,350,806
- Grants paid
- $389,750
-
2023
- Revenue
- $2,269,223
- Expenses
- $2,007,937
- Contributions
- $2,289,567
- Grants paid
- $21,927
-
2023
- Revenue
- $2,269,223
- Expenses
- $2,007,937
- Contributions
- $2,289,567
- Grants paid
- $21,927
-
2022
- Revenue
- $2,131,840
- Expenses
- $2,072,040
- Contributions
- $2,131,834
- Grants paid
- $201,260
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Grants made
-
2024 Grant funding
-
$56,500
2024 Pritzker Children's Initiative Subgrant
-
Gateway Early Childhood Alliance
$20,000
2024 General support
-
$10,000
2024 Market rate survey program
-
$10,000
2024 Market rate survey technical assistance
-
$10,000
2024 Market rate survey program
-
St Louis Community Foundation
no cash amount reported
2022 Philanthropy
-
no cash amount reported
2022 Early Childhood Development
Grants received
-
$165,000
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$165,000
2023 RCCF YEAR 1 GRANT
-
$154,000
2024 REST AND RESPITE GRANT
-
$149,438
2024 SUBRECIPIENT PASS THROUGH OF FEDERAL FUNDS UNDER THE EDA BUILD BACK BETTER GRANT
-
$125,000
2022 RAISING CHILD CARE FUND YEAR 2
-
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION MARKET RATE SURVEY EFFORT
-
$120,000
2024 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
-
$75,000
2025 EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
-
$67,750
2022 TO SUPPORT A COHORT OF INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS DREAMING AND BUILDING TOWARDS MORE HOPEFUL CHILD CARE FUTURES.
-
$53,000
2024 General operating support
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.