Our Investors

We are incredibly grateful for the generous support received over the last two decades from a range of private foundations, funding consortia, and individual donors, some of which have been funding the Center from our earliest days. We would especially like to express our deep appreciation for current support from the following funders (listed alphabetically): 

Core Investors: 

• Buffett Early Childhood Fund  
• Conrad N. Hilton Foundation  
• Imaginable Futures  
• J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation 

Additional Funders: 

• Anonymous (3)
• The Ballmer Group 
• The Bezos Family Foundation
• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF/ An advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
• Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc.  
• The George B. Storer Foundation 
• Genentech, Inc. 
• Harry and Eva Wilson 
• The JPB Foundation 
• The LEGO Foundation 
• The Scarlett Feather Fund  
• Tikun Olam Foundation 
• William & Kerry Benjamin  

We would also like to extend our gratitude to our unlisted individual donors, whose active and planned gifts are strategically leveraged and combined to support the Center’s work across its initiatives. 

Join Us 

Together with our investors, we share a belief that we can and must do better as a society to support young children and their caregivers. Whether you are a longtime advocate for early childhood or newly discovering how policy decisions across a multitude of sectors—from environmental protection to urban planning to early care and education—influence the full range of experiences and exposures that affect early childhood development, we invite you to learn more about our approach to leveraging science to catalyze changes in policy and practice to help ensure all children can thrive, along with their caregivers, in developmental environments that support their lifelong health and well-being. 

To learn more about the Center and explore possibilities, please contact Gillian Najarian, Co-Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer.