Ohio · Nonprofit
ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN
ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN (Ohio) receives grants from 117 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,713,670 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,287,315). 85 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 117
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Achievement Centers for Children does
Mission
Our mission is to empower children and adults with disabilities and (continued on schedule o) their families to achieve their greatest potential through holistic and family-focused services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family support services encompass a diverse range of social service offerings. These services span from counseling, parent education, advocacy, service coordination, crisis intervention, and resource and referral guidance. The overarching aim of these services is to equip parents and caregivers with the necessary tools to address the needs of their children with disabilities and to support the overall well-being of all family members. Our ultimate goal is to empower families to thrive, not merely endure. As a certified mental provider at both the state and county levels, Achievement Centers for Children (acc) offers a range of behavioral health services. (continued on schedule o)this includes our infant/early childhood mental health (I/ecmh) and behavioral health (bh) program, which is dedicated to addressing the challenges and nurturing the strengths of individuals throughout the lifespan, who are grappling with significant social, emotional and/or behavioral distress, often in conjunction with developmental disabilities.our family support services programs also include offerings such as infant massage training, help me grow home visiting, I/ecmh state support team in partnership…
$1,436,593 spent$760,504 earned by the program13% of program spendingRecreation has been an agency focus since the founding of camp cheerful in 1947. Located on 52 acres in the cleveland metroparks' mill stream run reservation in strongsville, it was the first accessible residential camp for people with disabilities in ohio. It is acc's philosophy that children with disabilities need the opportunity to have fun and just be kids. Camp cheerful campers participate in all of the traditional summer camp activities. These include hiking, swimming, fishing, horsemanship, arts and crafts, nature study, games, campfire activities, music and sports-all in an adapted environment. Camp cheerful provides several residential and day camp programs, as well as other specialized programs. (continued on schedule o)summer camp programs offered by acc include cheerful day, a day camp for children 5 to 21 years of age with disabilities; sensational extended school year (esy), providing educational and recreational services for children 5 to 21 years of age who have autism; and numerous other residential camp programs for adolescents and adults. Weekend residential camp programs are also available year-round. All camp programs provide much needed respite for families…
$2,692,456 spent$2,535,540 earned by the program25% of program spendingEducation includes our technical assistance program (tap), as well as our autism school program.tap facilitates the inclusion of children with disabilities into childcare programs and schools and at head start locations across northeast ohio. Our autism school is an alternate public school program site offering comprehensive educational services for children with autism in kindergarten through high school classrooms at our highland hills and westlake facilities, in collaboration with the educational service center of cuyahoga county. (continued on schedule o)our highly trained staff uses a blended methodology of intervention methods to create individualized education plans for children with autism. This program fills a void in the northeast ohio area and allows many more children to benefit from the blended model of teaching which acc has pioneered. We serve hundreds of children with autism across all of our programs each year and are considered an expert in serving the children most severely affected by the disorder, with a goal to always return students to their home school districts when possible.
$3,290,184 spent$3,859,411 earned by the program30% of program spendingTherapy services include comprehensive physical, occupational, and speech/language therapies designed to increase the functioning of children with disabilities. Outpatient therapy services are provided at highland hills and westlake. In addition, north coast therapy associates (ncta), a subsidiary of acc, provides occupational and physical therapy in a growing number of local school districts to meet the needs of students individualized education programs.our expert, licensed therapists have additional training in areas such as feeding, traumatic brain injury, and neurodevelopment treatment. We use innovative therapy approaches and blended strategies to achieve positive change in functional skills. Children and young adults with a broad range of disabilities benefit from our highly customized continuum model of intervention across their lifespan. Therapy sessions may have a more conventional duration and frequency, they may be designed according to our "burst" method or they may be more intensive. The therapy clinic's "burst" treatment model is designed to give children an added concentration of therapy and optimize their progress in shorter-length sessions. The intensive therapy…
$3,553,558 spent$2,650,932 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,972,791.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $23M to $27M (+19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Bernadette Kerrigan
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $597k → $1.1M.
17 of 117 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 117 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
60% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 37% · 2019 20% · 2020 40% · 2021 14% · 2022 15% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
61% of ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- North Coast Therapy Associates LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN?
- ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN (Ohio) receives grants from 117 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,713,670 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,287,315). 85 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 117 organizations giving $7,713,670 in grants to ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN, 85 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,287,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 117 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing