LITTLE EARTH NEIGHBORHOOD EARLY LEARNING CENTER CORPORATION
To provide a neighborhood facility for culturally based early learning programs that serve the Little Earth community and the broader American Indian community, supporting children and families through high-quality, relationship‑based early childhood education and family services.
About LITTLE EARTH NEIGHBORHOOD EARLY LEARNING CENTER CORPORATION
Little Earth Neighborhood Early Learning Center Corporation (EIN 41-1909680) is a Minneapolis-based 501(c)(3) organization that operates culturally grounded early childhood education and family-support programming focused on the Little Earth community, an urban American Indian neighborhood in South Minneapolis. The organization is home to and closely aligned with the Baby’s Space model (Baby’s Space: A Place to Grow), which provides full‑day, year‑round infant, toddler and preschool services along with parent education and family supports designed from the baby’s point of view. In recent years LENELC has continued operations as an active, donor-facing nonprofit: it appears in IRS/990-based nonprofit records, is included in state early-childhood program listings, and was named in a 2023 state capital-appropriations item for facility upgrades. Recent filings show program services account for the vast majority of its revenue and reflect ongoing program delivery and asset holdings.
Notable achievements
Anchor site for the Baby’s Space model
The Little Earth center serves as the original/anchor location for the Baby’s Space model of neighborhood‑based, full‑service early childhood programming, linking childcare with family supports and parent education to improve child and family outcomes.
Designated Community Resource Hub
Participated as a community resource hub in statewide Preschool Development Grant planning and local early‑childhood coordination efforts, strengthening partnerships with Hennepin County, Minneapolis Public Schools and other local providers to better serve children and families.
State capital support for facility upgrades (2023)
Identified in 2023 state capital appropriation language for a $1.25 million grant to predesign, design and complete HVAC/code upgrades and improve outdoor play area safety — recognition of its role and infrastructure needs in the community.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $613K
- Annual revenue
- $316K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 41-1909680
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
- Website
- www.littleearth.org
- On Mahalo since
- May 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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