About Iredell County Partnership for Young Children
Lifting children to better beginnings by strengthening families, promoting health, expanding literacy, and enhancing early care and education.
Focus Areas
Early care and educationFamily supportChild healthEarly literacyChild Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R)Professional development / trainingsNC Pre-K supportWAGE$ teacher supplements
Who They Fund
childcare workers / early childhood educatorschildren enrolled in NC Pre-K and early literacy programsfamilies of young children accessing childcare services
Funding Style
About Iredell County Partnership for Young Children
A defining feature of Iredell County Partnership for Young Children Inc is its long-running support for NC Pre-K in Iredell County, with repeated grants to school districts and child care providers serving four-year-olds. The largest recent awards in the grant list went to Iredell Statesville Schools, Mooresville Graded School District, and Lifespan Circle School, all for NC Pre-K. That pattern shows a funder using contract-style grants to support early education at scale rather than making many small discretionary awards. The foundation’s work centers on children birth to age five and the adults around them: families, child care providers, and early educators. Recent grants also show direct support for child care workforce retention and benefits, including funding tied to insurance and benefits for child care workers. Another visible thread is its support for child care resource and referral activity, along with services that strengthen health and literacy for young children. The funding is local in scope and concentrated in Iredell County, with recurring awards to the same organizations across multiple years, especially in the pre-kindergarten system and early childhood provider network.
What Iredell County Partnership for Young Children Funds
Early care and education is the clearest throughline in the foundation’s recent grants. It awarded $141,531 in 2025 to Small Beginnings Child Development Center LLC for NC Pre-K and insurance and benefits for child care workers, linking classroom access with workforce support. A second area is child care workforce compensation and retention. I-care Inc received $44,150 in 2023 for insurance and benefits for childcare workers, followed by $38,900 in 2024 and $37,650 in 2025 for the same purpose. That pattern suggests sustained support for provider stability. The foundation also funds child care resource and referral work. Child Care Connections of Burke County Inc received $22,823 in 2025 and $22,158 in 2024 for DCD Childcare Resource & Referral. In addition, the grant list includes support for early literacy and child health through its contract programs for children birth to age five.
How Iredell County Partnership for Young Children Gives
Grant sizes are spread from a median of $44,150 to a p75 of $141,531, with a p25 of $15,180. The recent grant list shows multi-year repeat funding rather than one-off awards: the same NC Pre-K recipients appear in 2023, 2024, and 2025, and the child care benefits line also repeats across multiple years. The foundation operates through competitive contract funding and request-for-proposals processes, including multi-year cycles such as 2025-2028. It also administers or funds programs locally, including NC Pre-K intake and WAGE$ salary supplements.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2M
Total Assets
$101K
Total Revenue
$4.1M
Total Expenses
$4.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $15K and $142K, with a median of $44K.
25th Percentile
$15K
Median
$44K
75th Percentile
$142K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
LISA M FAMILO
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