Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER
ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $397,945 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($224,108). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $736k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $398k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Arsenal Family & Children's Center does
Mission
The mission of arsenal family and children's center is to promote and to be an advocate for the healthy development of young children and support their parents in building a nurturing relationship with each child.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our philosphy is built on more than 50 years of observation, careful study, and work with young children. During this time we have learned two things that are essential to the healthy development of children: 1) opportunities for active learning through play and 2) the passionate involvement of an adult in their lives. To facilitate active learning through play, afcc specializes in play experiences that invite children to explore, create, and manipulate ideas and objects that are important to them. Through active participation with toys, materials and the natural environment children learn in personally meaningfuly ways, accomplishing two broad goals. 1. Develop the entire child intellectually, emotionally, psychosocially, and physically by significantly influencing a child's ability to successfully manage life events and facilitating the development of such skills as self-awareness, impulse control, zeal, self-motivation and empathy. 2. Transmit essential human values including, respect, compassion, and honesty through the use of unstructured but guided play time, and positive adult guidance and modeling.the passionate involvement of an adult who is devoted to that child's…
$474,983 spent$273,352 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $474,983.
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 2020 to 2021, from $833k to $1.1M (+34%).
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 26% · 2018 25% · 2019 27% · 2020 31% · 2021 41% · 2022 51% · 2023 43% · 2024 37% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Yvonne E Keairns Phd
Executive director, emerit
Board chair
Anjali Lichtenstein
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $33k → $30k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER’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
ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 55% · 2022 59% · 2023 33% — 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
60% of ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $159k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER runs a healthier operating margin 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 ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER: 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 ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER?
- ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $397,945 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($224,108). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $397,945 in grants to ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $224,108 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 7 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