Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,050 to it, the largest being DAVID & ROBIN RYAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($7,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $-287811
What Alliance for Children Inc does
Mission
The alliance for children is dedicated to providing high quality, ethical social work services to advance its principal goal of serving the world community's waiting children. The fundamental principle underlying the work of the alliance for children is that all children have a right to a permanent, loving family of their own. The alliance for children is committed to putting this principle into action in four primary ways: by providing a full range of adoption services to children, birth families, and adoptive parents in order to secure permanent, loving homes for the children;by offering financial assistance to childcare institutions to improve the living standards of children awaiting placement and of children for whom placement in an adoptive family is not a possibility;by educating client families and the public about all aspects of adoption through lifelong training, support, information, and referrals; and by advocating for older children and children with special
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Adoption agency providing services including home studies, foster care, and resource fees required to effect the placement of children with adoptive parents.
$1,019,587 spent$1,536,431 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,019,587.
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 2023 to 2024, from $661k to $318k (−52%).
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: 2020 6% · 2022 8% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Tracy Keene
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC’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
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36k on record.
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$32k
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$4k
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 ALLIANCE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ALLIANCE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC?
- ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,050 to it, the largest being DAVID & ROBIN RYAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($7,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $15,050 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC?
- DAVID & ROBIN RYAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 4 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