The Tompkins County Early Education Partnership’s community fund will provide a universal point of entry for Tompkins County families of all income levels to access public, private, and charitable funds to support child care. Currently middle-income families pay the highest percentage of their incomes for child care. The materials on this webpage were created to help fund designers in Tompkins County understand the multiple existing funding streams for child care and the fund’s potential liability, and think about ways to help providers achieve economies of scale. We hope the materials will be useful to other community groups conducting similar work.

• An assessment of current funding streams for child care: What parents pay. 
• Considerations in estimating demand for child care
• Fund liability cost projections. This memo estimates the costs of meeting the needs of middle income parents not served by government subsidies.
• The gap between the supply of regulated care and potential demand
• Child care provider budgets and implications for fund design
• Methodology for child care home provider budget