Child Care Finance Map

A healthy child care sector requires a robust financial infrastructure that can support the industry’s capital needs: start-up funding to create new child care programs, working capital for business stabilization and maintenance, and growth capital for facility expansion and quality improvement.

The Child Care Finance Map is a joint effort between the National Children’s Facilities Network and Reinvestment Fund to measure capital access in the child care industry. The tool was designed to help stakeholders identify the sources of capital that are currently supporting child care providers in their communities. This first iteration of the tool maps the flow of Small Business Administration funding, Community Development Capital, and Philanthropic Grantmaking to child care businesses to every county in the U.S.

To learn more about capital access in the child care sector, and the methodology used to create the map, see Capitalizing Child Care: The National Landscape of Grants, Loans, and Community Development Capital in Early Childhood Education.