The IDEAS Consortium has received annual techical support funding from The Children's Trust to integrate early childhood data across local provider systems.  In 2021, the Consortium was awarded a five-year research grant to develop a learning community that better aligns interdisciplinary researchers, agency practitioners, and local community hubs.  The 2021-06 Early Childhood Community Research Demonstration Project began in October 2021 and ends in September 2026. 

The IDEAS Consortium was awarded a three-year research-practice grant from the Spencer Foundation in 2021 to strengthen and sustain our integrated data partnership. The award, Research-Practice Partnerships: Collaborative research for educational change, enabled the Consortium to link information impacting young children to address priorities of data-sharing provider systems.

The IDEAS Consortium was awarded a two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in partnership with the University of Florida's Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies. The 2021 award for Equity-Focused Policy Research: Building Cross-Cutting Evidence on Supports for Families used data from Miami-Dade early childhood initiatives to inform local efforts and broader policies.

The IDEAS Consortium was awarded two grants from the University of Miami's Laboratory for Integrative Knowledge (U-LINK).  A 2018 award focused on the Consortium's interdisciplinary team approach to analyze child outcomes using linked administrative data.  A 2020 award formalized relations with lead community agencies serving black, Hispanic, and Haitian families, so as to give context to preliminary findings and shape new questions with collaborative local input. 

The IDEAS Consortium partnered in a grant from the Miami Foundation awarded to Sant La in June 2020. The project piloted an interactive website application for Haitian and low-income parents, guided by the Early Learning Committee of the Together for Children initiative in the Northeast Corridor of Miami-Dade.

The partnership obtained a multi-year research grant from the federal Institute for Education Sciences beginning in 2014, in order to unite five institutions behind a strategy to give Miami-Dade a larger view of early childhood needs and potential solutions. The group surveyed child readiness for learning in public schools; linked and analyzed a dozen sets of data including administrative data from each of the partner agencies; and published research briefs addressing the group’s initial shared questions.