Parents As Teachers National Center Incorporated
Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc. is a St. Louis–based nonprofit that promotes optimal early development, learning, and health by training and supporting affiliates to deliver an evidence‑based home‑visiting model; it provides curricula, professional training, resources, and technical assistance to programs nationwide.
Source: Website · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A community-based child- and family-serving nonprofit (often delivering or aligned with early-childhood home‑visiting or parent-engagement work) that can use a challenge/matching grant to expand services or strengthen sustainability.
Good Fit
- • Focus on early childhood development, parent education, or home-visiting models
- • Ability to implement a challenge or matching campaign
- • Established local delivery capacity and clear plans for measurable impact
- • Nonprofit status and local community credibility
- • Projects sized to the typical grant range (~$25K–$50K)
Geography
The latest year shows grants reaching 15 different states with roughly even state shares and no in‑state concentration, indicating a multi‑state/national footprint in the observed year.
Recipient Variety
Eighteen distinct recipient organizations were funded in the latest year, across a range of independent local charities, which indicates a broadly distributed recipient set for that year.
New Applicants
Direct evidence of multi‑year turnover is unavailable, and no formal application guidelines were identified; however the broad geographic spread and many distinct grantees in the observed year suggest unfamiliar applicants may plausibly access funding, so openness cannot be confirmed or denied from the single year of data.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
