Georgia · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC
ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC (Georgia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,807,874 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,054,800). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Advocates for Children Inc does
Mission
Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. Through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering support, we strengthen our communities across northwest georgia.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Help abused, abandoned, neglected, and other at-risk children and their families by providing a wide continuum of support and prevention. This includes shelter, counseling, education, parenting supervision, placement in foster home or other living situations, and community awareness.
$4,705,095 spentof which $159,644 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,705,095.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.7M to $9.9M (+48%).
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 59% · 2018 63% · 2019 70% · 2020 74% · 2021 41% · 2022 54% · 2023 41% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Rachel Castillo
President & CEO
Board chair
Glen Merritt
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $126k → $1.2M.
11 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 49% · 2019 36% · 2020 39% · 2021 40% · 2022 16% · 2023 41% — 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
59% of ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
85% of ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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 INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC?
- ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC (Georgia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,807,874 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,054,800). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $4,807,874 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,054,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Advocates for Children →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 52 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