New York · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN (New York) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,812,591 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($4,780,400). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 146
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Association to Benefit Children does
Mission
Association to Benefit Children provides services to children and families in the new york metropolitan area. The organization was founded as a force to challenge and change the myriads of assaults to children, including but not limited to hunger, poverty, homelessness, physical and emotional abuse, abandonment, substandard housing, failing schools and substance abuse which endanger their welfare and undermine their future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early childhood programs: enriched educational programming for children birth to 5 years old in both integrated and non-integrated settings. This includes the vast array of services provided to the children and their families throughout the day.
$16,932,022 spent$1,523,898 earned by the program60% of program spendingWrap-around services: the myriad of programming that wraps around the "whole" child providing support to the children and families of our early childhood programs and the community. This includes a robust mobile and clinic-based behavioral health center that is made up of mobile behavioral health crisis teams, school-based services and, stand-alone clinical services. Programming also includes preventive services using child-parent psychotherapy modality, nutritional services, equity and justice center, tutoring and afterschool programs, and various family services and training programs.
$11,364,482 spent$4,414,920 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,296,504.
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 2022 to 2023, from $25M to $27M (+9%).
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 69% · 2018 68% · 2019 62% · 2020 62% · 2021 58% · 2022 62% · 2023 59% · 2024 59% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Gretchen Buchenholz
President/CEO
Board chair
Tom Styron
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $4.9M.
24 of 146 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 146 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
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 35% · 2019 27% · 2020 22% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 42% — 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
48% of ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
87% of ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN is better cushioned than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$47.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.3M
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 ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- Association to Benefit Children HDFC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: 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 ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN?
- ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN (New York) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,812,591 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($4,780,400). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 146 organizations giving $25,812,591 in grants to ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN, 92 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,780,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 146 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