Indiana · Nonprofit
Advocates for Children and Families
Advocates for Children and Families (Indiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $727,509 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($639,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $845k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $728k
- Net assets
- $678k
What Advocates for Children and Families does
Mission
Child and family advocacy related to abuse
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide education, emotional support, assessments, and refer for services for more specialized support such as counseling, trauma therapy, or medical services.
$223,002 spent$157,804 earned by the program37% of program spendingChild abuse prevention programs for community awareness and education were provided to youth serving organizations.
$183,733 spent$204,631 earned by the program30% of program spendingChild forensic interviews were conducted and recorded for the use of the Department of Child Services and law enforcement.
$199,705 spent$348,799 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $606,440.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $642k to $1.5M (+136%).
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 71% · 2018 85% · 2019 83% · 2020 53% · 2021 82% · 2022 60% · 2023 91% · 2024 79% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Advocates for Children and Families’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $640k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Advocates for Children and Families’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Advocates for Children and Families leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 44% · 2021 95% · 2022 47% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
43% of Advocates for Children and Families's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
98% of Advocates for Children and Families's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Advocates for Children and Families is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Advocates for Children and Families
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Advocates for Children and Families: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Advocates for Children and Families?
- Advocates for Children and Families (Indiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $727,509 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($639,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Advocates for Children and Families have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $727,509 in grants to Advocates for Children and Families, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Advocates for Children and Families?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $639,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Advocates for Children and Families find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 10 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing