Early Care & Education Funders Collaborative
Funding Amount
$280,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
Geographic Scope: Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region
Focus Areas:
- Early care and education system improvement
- Advocacy support for early care educators
- Systems change within early childhood sector
- Professional development for early childhood educators
- Equitable access to quality early care and education
Program Goals
The Collaborative prioritizes critical and urgent challenges within the early care and education system. It seeks to encourage systems change work that might not otherwise occur without the seed funding of private philanthropy.
Recent Funding
2024-2025 Round: $280,000 awarded to 10 organizations
- Expected to benefit 30,000 early childhood educators
- Expected to benefit over 540,000 children under five
Grantee Partners
- Maryland Early Childhood Leadership Program (MECLP)
- Educare D.C.
- DC Action
- Community Youth Advance
- Children's Opportunity Alliance
- DC Family Child Care Association
- Southeast Children's Fund
- Child Resource Connect
- Multicultural Spanish Speaking Providers Association
- Maryland State Family Child Care Association
- DC Fiscal Policy Institute
- Voices for Virginia's Children
Contact
Address: 712 H Street NE, Suite 1099, Washington, DC 20002
Tax ID: 52-2028612
What Washington Area Women's Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 17
- Total given
- $462K
- Median grant
- $20K
- Range
- $10K–$107K
- By dollars: District of Columbia 69%, Maryland 27%, Virginia 4%. Top recipient cities: Washington, DC; Bethesda, MD; Upper Marlboro, MD.
- 47% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 53% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Black Swan Academy · Washington, DC
Young women's initiative general operating grant
$107K
DC Action for Children Today DC Act · Washington, DC
Early care and education
$40K
DC Family Child Care Association · Washington, DC
Early care and education general operating grant from the ecefc
$30K
DC Fiscal Policy Institute · Washington, DC
Early care and education general operating grant from the ecefc
$30K
Montgomery County Children's Opportunity Alliance Inc · Bethesda, MD
Early care and education general operating grant from the ecefc
$30K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Child care
- Education equity
- Workforce development
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