North Carolina · Nonprofit
BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN
BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,238,472 to it, the largest being TUW JOSEPH C CANNON JR GRANDFATHER HOME ($1,886,257). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Barium Springs Home for Children does
Mission
To provide a safe, healing journey for hurting children and families - creating hope now and in the future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Founded in 1891 as the presbyterian orphan's home for children, Barium Springs Home for Children (bshc) originally operated a residential children's home serving orphaned children. In 2011, bshc merged with grandfather home for children, to form cha-together representing a combined 250-year legacy of service to at-risk children in nc. Today, bshc serves as the licensed operating entity within the children's hope alliance (cha) family of nonprofits and the primary provider of direct services to at-risk children and families across north carolina. As a 501(c)(3), publicly supported organization under 170(b)(1)(a)(vi), bshc holds the state licensure, accreditation, and contractual authorizations required to deliver trauma-informed therapeutic services, foster care, and early intervention/prevention programs. Bshc serves over 7,500 children and families annually across 63 nc counties.
$10,460,913 spent$9,259,517 earned by the program27% of program spendingFoster care and adoption - foster care is provided for children who need care during a family crisis, need care because of abuse or neglect or need additional structure due to behavioral or mental health concerns. Foster homes are selected based on their ability to provide a safe, stable and nurturing environment for children. Children participating in the foster care program regulary receive case management, behavior support planning, counseling, and crisis response.
$7,040,825 spent$6,104,998 earned by the program18% of program spendingDuring fy2025, bshc transferred 20,855,755 in service grants to children's hope alliance foundation (chaf) from the divestiture of legacy real estate, historic properties accumulated over the organization's 130+ year history that no longer serve an active programmatic purpose. Chaf, the consolidated organizations type I supporting organization holds the permanent endowment. Under chaf's board-approved spending policy (4% of trailing 5-year average endowment market value), these proceeds will generate perpetual annual income to support direct services delivered through bshc. This transfer is part of a board-directed, multi-year strategic asset optimization initiative that converts non-performing legacy assets into permanent mission-sustaining capital.
$20,855,755 spentof which $20,855,755 as grants54% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,357,493.
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 2021 to 2022, from $39M to $33M (−15%).
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.
33% of BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR 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. 6 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
Celeste Dominguez
CEO
Board chair
Laura Skinner
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 13 funders, grant income fell $624k → $455k.
9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $23M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Hope Alliance Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN raised.
From the IRS filings of BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN’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
BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 64% · 2019 55% · 2020 59% · 2021 29% · 2022 26% · 2023 28% — 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
50% of BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $737k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Children's Hope Alliance · exempt
- Children's Hope Alliance Foundation · exempt
- Grandfather Home for Children Inc · exempt
- Properties for Children · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN?
- BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,238,472 to it, the largest being TUW JOSEPH C CANNON JR GRANDFATHER HOME ($1,886,257). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $5,238,472 in grants to BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN?
- TUW JOSEPH C CANNON JR GRANDFATHER HOME is the largest funder on record, with $1,886,257 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 30 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