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Advocates For Kids

Advocates for Kids is committed to providing service and/or supporting organizations that serve children by providing experiences that empower them to realize their full potential.

$143k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$104kEducation$44kRecreation & Sports$35kHuman Services$32k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $49,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $142,975 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $93,475 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Deaf Services Center$11,500
Claymont Highschool$10,000
Willow Ridge$8,000
Yougstown Easter Seals$7,000
Celveland Hearing and Speech$7,000
Share Your Story LLC$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Northeast Ohio Adoption Svcs: $10k → 16%Adoption Network Cleveland: $5k → 17%Northeast Ohio Adoption Svcs: $5k → 16%DWAVE: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$134k · 3 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$134k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DS
    Deaf Services Center Inc
    3× · 2019–2024 · $84k · revenue -38%
  • WR
    WILLOW RIDGE THERAPEUTIC RIDING FACILITY INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue -2%
  • NO
    NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • OH
    OHIO HANDS & VOICES
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • CF
    CLEAR FORK VALLEY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • HS
    HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER OF GREA
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +12%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for Hearing & Deaf Services Inc

Provide a diverse and affordable program of quality diagnostic, rehabilitative, and supportive services designed to meet the unique challenges of children and adults who are deaf and hard of hearing, or have other communication needs and…

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2
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Service Center

To advocate, seek equality, and promote self-determination through empowerment for those who seek our assistance; and to enhance the awareness and understanding of the deaf culture and the unique communication needs of the deaf and hard of…

Health
3
Columbus Speech and Hearing Center

To unlock potential for individuals with communication challenges.

Health
4
Easter Seals Midwest

To assist individuals with developmental disabilities, including autism, how to learn, live, work, and participate in the community.

—
5
See Center for the Advancement of Deaf Children

To improve and provide sign language skills that make English visual to deaf children, their paeents, educators, and the general public at both local and distant loations throughout the United States and Canada..

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6
Deaf Hearing Communication Centre

Organization promotes equal communication accessibility, educational service, cultural awareness and econcomic to the deaf, deaf blind, hard of hearing, and hearing populations by providing communication services, education and advocacy.

Health
7
Listen and Talk

Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.

Education
8
Hearing Speech and Deafness Center Dba Hearing Speech and Deaf Center

Hsdc is a western washington service hub for clients who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who face communication barriers. we envision an inclusive, accessible world, where everyone is understood and respected.

Health
9
Communication Advocacy Network Corp

The mission of the Communication Advocacy Network is to empower Deaf, Hard of Hearing, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing blind individuals in Connecticut by providing advocacy and culturally sensitive living services. These services are…

Human Services
10
Hearing Loss Association of America

Hlaa opens the world of communication to people with hearing loss through information, education, support and advocacy. hlaa is the leading voice of the growing number of people with hearing loss in the u.s. hlaa advocates for…

Human Services
11
Family Service Association Inc

Our mission is to strengthen families and communities through counseling and education. Family Services has designed programs that help meet those needs since 1896.

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12
Hearing and Speech Center of Rochester Inc

To preserve the uniquely human right to enjoy communication for life by helping children and adults achieve dreams through innovative, caring speech and hearing services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hearing Speech and Deaf Center of Grea; the most unlike its peers is Share Your Story. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Deaf Services Center Inc: $84,000 · HealthDeaf Services Center IncWILLOW RIDGE THERAPEUTIC RIDING FACILITY INC: $34,782 · HealthWILLOW RIDGE THERAPEUTIC RIDING FACILITY INCOHIO HANDS & VOICES: $20,000 · OtherOHIO HANDS & VOICESCLEAR FORK VALLEY SCHOOLS: $14,018 · OtherCLEAR FORK VALLEY SCHOOLSClaymont City Schools: $10,000 · OtherClaymont City SchoolsEASTER SEALS INC: $7,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS INCCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: $7,000 · OtherCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTERHEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER OF GREA: $6,500 · OtherHEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER OF GRE…SHARE YOUR STORY: $6,000 · OtherSHARE YOUR STORYNORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $15,001 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST OHI…DEAF WORLD AGAINST VIOLENCE EVERYWHERE: $5,001 · Human ServicesDEAF WORLD AG…ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $5,001 · Human ServicesADOPTION NETW…
Health$118,782Other$70,518Human Services$25,003

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDeaf Services Center Inc: $84,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetWILLOW RIDGE THERAPEUTIC RIDING FACILITY INC: $34,782 over 4y, 11% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $15,001 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER OF GREA: $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE YOUR STORY: $6,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetDEAF WORLD AGAINST VIOLENCE EVERYWHERE: $5,001 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND: $5,001 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Advocates For Kids funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Advocates For Kids. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Advocates For Kids?

    Find your warmest path to Advocates For Kids through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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