Our 2025-2026 Annual Impact Report is here!

Our 2025-2026 Annual Impact Report is here!

2025 was a milestone year of growth and impact for the Institute for Child Success (ICS), and we are deeply grateful for your steadfast partnership. Through your generous gifts of advocacy, resources, and time, we have been able to reach more children, families, and communities than ever before.

This report comes at a momentous time, as 2026 marks the Sweet 16 anniversary of ICS. Just as sixteen is a transformative turning point in a young person’s life, this milestone is a moment of renewed purpose and a bold vision for our future. To honor our first sixteen years of impact and look ahead to the next chapter, we launched the Sweet 16 Campaign. This initiative seeks support for the newly established ICS Innovation Fund, which provides the flexible, agile capital needed to develop bold new solutions, respond rapidly to urgent community needs, and allow ICS to continue to serve as a national leader in early childhood advocacy.

ICS remains dedicated to improving outcomes for young children across the nation. We achieve this by equipping the early childhood ecosystem with essential tools: measurement and evaluation consulting, policy research and advocacy support, and innovative financing. These core offerings empower a diverse network of practitioners, administrators, policymakers, philanthropic foundations, and government offices to catalyze meaningful, systemic change.

We are thrilled to share a transformative milestone in our journey toward national system-building: the Help Me Grow (HMG) National Center has officially joined the Institute for Child Success, with ICS serving as its national sponsor organization. By combining the Help Me Grow (HMG) Model—implemented in over 140 communities across 32 states and the District of Columbia—with ICS’s policy, data, and innovative financing expertise, we are building a stronger, integrated infrastructure. The HMG National Network unites multisector early childhood leaders and their partners to advance promotion- and prevention-focused systems that more effectively connect families to the resources and supports they need, when and how they need them.

None of this would be possible without you. To our organizational partners, foundation supporters, and individual donors: thank you for your investment in the future. Because of your generosity, ICS has entered our sweet sixteen uniquely poised to ensure every child has the opportunity to succeed.

Thank you!

The Honorable Loranne Ausley

Chair, Board of Directors

Jamie Moon

President and CEO

Read our Annual Impact Report for fiscal year 2025-2026 to learn more about the impact ICS has made for young children and families across the nation. See our impact in the areas of:

• Research, Advocacy & Evaluation
• Innovative Financing
• Help Me Grow National Center
• Strong Nation Initiative