Saving Grace Sitter Service

What Saving Grace Sitter Service does

Saving Grace Sitter Service is a privately held, faith-based childcare staffing company headquartered in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex that has operated since 1995. It supplies pre-screened, CPR/First-Aid certified sitters to churches, conferences, pre-schools, Vacation Bible School programs, mothers-day-out programs, after-school programs, Bible studies, non-profits, and special needs care programs across the United States. The company explicitly differentiates itself by avoiding automated matching platforms and instead building dedicated, long-tenured sitter teams that are intentionally matched to each organization's culture and needs.

The operating model is a professional services staffing business with no proprietary technology platform, no mobile app, and no public API. Pricing is quote-based, billed per assignment, with no membership or sign-up fees. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven: direct outreach to church leadership and children's ministry directors, supplemented by word-of-mouth referrals within faith communities and a testimonials-driven website. The core administrative team is small (8-9 people, with the Tyler family in founder and managing director roles), while the broader headcount of 51-100 includes contractor sitters deployed at client sites.

The business is founder-family controlled with no disclosed institutional investors, acquisitions, or exit activity. Its revenue is generated entirely from per-assignment staffing fees across a single primary vertical (religious organizations), and it claims to serve hundreds of churches and organizations nationwide despite a DFW-based administrative footprint.

Name

Saving Grace Sitter Service

Legal name

Saving Grace Sitter Service

Website

https://savinggracesitterservice.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Saving Grace Sitter Service is a faith-based childcare staffing company, founded in 1995 and based in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, that supplies pre-screened, long-tenured sitters to hundreds of churches and organizations nationwide on a per-assignment basis, without using automated matching platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Childcare Staffing Services

NAICS

Child Care Services (62441)

SIC

Services-Child Day Care Services (8351), Services-Help Supply Services (7363)

akta.pro primary industry

Part-Time Nanny Placement Agencies (HSAAALAC)

Keywords

• Childcare staffing services
• Church nursery care
• Faith-based childcare
• Sitter placement agency
• Event childcare staffing

Headquarters

HQ city

Dallas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Childcare Staffing Services: Provides staffing of childcare workers to churches and organizations. Services are billed per assignment or contract basis. No membership or sign-up fees required from clients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Saving Grace Sitter Service staffs pre-screened, CPR/First Aid certified childcare sitters into churches, religious organizations, conferences, pre-schools, non-profits, and special needs programs on an ongoing, last-minute, or as-needed basis. The company strategically assembles dedicated sitter teams matched to each client's culture and needs rather than rotating availability, and bills clients per assignment with no membership or sign-up fees.

Product overview

Saving Grace Sitter Service is a childcare staffing company operating since 1995 that provides faith-aligned, experienced sitters to churches and organizations nationwide. The company offers a personalized, relationship-focused approach rather than automated matching, strategically assembling dedicated sitter teams tailored to each organization's specific needs. Their services include Church Nursery Care, Special Events, Conferences, Pre-Schools, Vacation Bible School, Mothers-Day-Out, After School Programs, Bible Studies, Non-Profit Organizations, and Special Needs Care. Services are available on last-minute, ongoing, or as-needed bases with no membership or sign-up fees required.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Church Nursery Care
• Special Events Childcare
• Conference Childcare
• Pre-School Staffing
• Vacation Bible School
• Mothers-Day-Out
• After School Programs
• Bible Studies
• Non-Profit Organization Childcare
• Special Needs Care

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Sittercity: Long-standing online marketplace for babysitters, nannies, and childcare providers. Direct peer offering a similar core service (sitter placement) through a digital channel, contrasting with Saving Grace's relationship-based approach.
• UrbanSitter: Online sitter-matching platform focused on babysitters and nannies, leveraging Facebook-network-based matching. Direct competitor in the sitter-placement category, representing the tech-enabled alternative to Saving Grace's manual matching model.
• College Nannies, Sitters and Tutors (now Town + Country Resources): National nanny, sitter, and tutor placement agency with a relationship-based matching model similar in philosophy to Saving Grace. Operates in overlapping customer segments (families seeking long-term caregiver relationships) but is more tech-enabled in its marketing.

Broad incumbents

• Bright Horizons Family Solutions: Large publicly-traded provider of early education, child care, and employer-sponsored childcare services. Broad incumbent offering overlapping capabilities (childcare staffing, employer-sponsored programs) but operating daycare centers rather than sitter placement.
• KinderCare Learning Companies: National operator of early childhood education centers providing daycare and preschool services. While focused on center-based care rather than sitter placement, it competes for the same employer/organizational childcare budget pool.
• Care.com: The largest online marketplace connecting families with caregivers including sitters and nannies. While broader in scope (also covers pets, housekeeping, senior care) and tech-enabled, it competes for the same customer dollars — particularly mothers-day-out and family-use cases that Saving Grace's services address.

Emerging players

• Wyndy: On-demand babysitter marketplace targeting college students and young sitters with a digital booking flow. Comparable to Saving Grace in service category but differentiated by its app-first distribution and lower-touch matching.
• Helpr: Tech-enabled childcare and elder care platform focused on backup, on-demand care typically delivered via employer benefits. Represents the next-generation, app-driven approach to sitter staffing that contrasts with Saving Grace's high-touch model.

Regional players

• YMCA Childcare Programs: Community-based, regionally-operated childcare and after-school programs often delivered through church and non-profit partnerships. Adjacent peer competing for the same institutional childcare budgets and overlapping with Saving Grace's church and non-profit verticals.
• Dallas-Fort Worth Nanny & Sitter Agencies (e.g., DFW Nannies): Local DFW-area nanny and sitter placement agency operating in Saving Grace's primary geography. Directly comparable service offering with similar target market of families and organizations in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/saving-grace-sitter-service

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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