Many states also fund pre-kindergarten child care from general revenues.
These are significant sources of funding for child care, but they are not the only sources. The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation are sponsoring development of a compendium on state-based approaches to child care financing. Early childhood policy specialists, Louise Stoney and Anne Mitchell, are completing this work. The Pew Trusts and the Kauffman Foundation are seeking to provide information to organizations and individuals working to improve public and private child care policy, as well as to inform child care program development at the two foundations. The compendium of child care finance mechanisms will identify the spectrum of options for child care financing.