Vendor · #5300 by total payments to the State of Delaware

Bright Beginnings Child Care Center

Bright Beginnings Child Care Center has been paid $285,172 by the State of Delaware since FY2018, primarily through Dept of Health & Social Services's Social Services division.

ARP federal fundsRecent payments
$285K
total payments · FY18–FY26
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Jul 24, 2017First payment
Jun 16, 2026Last payment
128Payments
0Documents
6Programs
3Agencies

Relationships

Programs

ProgramAgencyAmountYears
Social Services Dept of Health & Social Services $149,500 FY18–FY26
Student Support Dept of Education $73,870 FY18–FY26
Special Needs Programs Dept of Education $25,244 FY18–FY26
Delaware Economic Development Dept of State $20,250 FY18–FY26
Department of Education Dept of Education $12,757 FY18–FY26
Office of the Secretary Dept of Education $3,551 FY18–FY26
FY 21 Child Care Stab Federal — American Rescue Plan $112,500 FY22
FY 21 Child Care Dayca Federal — American Rescue Plan $37,000 FY22

Money

Where it goes
By category
Welfr & Simlr Asst Grants
$150K
Food Service
$66K
Purchase of Care
$25K
Fed Grant Sub Recipient
$24K
Grants
$20K
Which pot of money
Federal Funds
$200K
By fiscal year
FY18$13K
FY19$11K
FY20$20K
FY21$42K
FY22$159K
FY23$10K
FY24$10K
FY25$10K
FY26$11K
State credit-card purchases $820 · 1 years
Fiscal yearAmountTransactions
FY23$8201
Who swipes, and for what
DepartmentCategoryAmountTransactions
Services for Children Youth...Child Care Services $8201

Source: state employee credit-card dataset, matched by merchant name. FY2025 is missing from the state portal.

How the spending is booked 2 account lines
AccountAmountLine items
Welfr & Simlr Asst Grants$149,5003
Food Service$50,27461

Fund and account lines come from the expenditure-detail dataset (source ↗), which itemizes payments at a finer grain than the checkbook.

Yearly totals — full table 9 fiscal years
Fiscal yearTotalChecks
FY18$12,75714
FY19$10,56812
FY20$19,64115
FY21$42,43123
FY22$159,01516
FY23$10,02712
FY24$10,29211
FY25$9,56212
FY26$10,87813
Browse every payment 128 checks →
Recent payments latest 15 checks
DateDepartmentCategoryAmount
Jun 16, 2026 Dept of EducationFood Service $897
May 14, 2026 Dept of EducationFood Service $940
Apr 16, 2026 Dept of EducationFood Service $1,011
Mar 13, 2026 Dept of EducationFood Service $776
Feb 12, 2026 Dept of EducationFood Service $917
Jan 22, 2026 Dept of EducationFood Service $767
Dec 10, 2025 Dept of EducationFood Service $780
Nov 12, 2025 Dept of EducationFood Service $903
Oct 20, 2025 Dept of EducationFood Service $909
Sep 18, 2025 Dept of EducationFood Service $888
Aug 22, 2025 Dept of EducationFood Service $1,015
Aug 21, 2025 Dept of EducationFood Service $273
Jul 28, 2025 Dept of EducationFood Service $801
Jun 17, 2025 Dept of EducationFood Service $958
May 8, 2025 Dept of EducationFood Service $948

Source: State of Delaware checkbook · synced 2026-07-25. Open source dataset ↗

Source datasets

State checkbook (payments) · synced 2026-07-25 data.delaware.gov/d/5s6n-7hpx ↗
ARP transparency (federal funds) data.delaware.gov/d/e2rw-zi3s ↗