Ohio · Nonprofit
BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU
BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,907,512 to it, the largest being E S PRENTISS FOUNDATION-IR ($1,875,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $55M
What Bellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau does
Mission
Bellefaire jcb provides a comprehensive array of high-quality behavioral health, substance use treatment, faith-based education and foster care services for children and families across northeast ohio. Our programs include residential treatment programs specializing in autism, mental health conditions, and substance use disorders, as well as a jewish-based early childhood education center that suports strong developmental foundations.in additon, bellefaire offers shcool-based counseling, prevention, adoption, education, and treatment services both on our main campus and throughout northeast ohio. This broad continuum of care reflects our commitment to excellence and ensures that children and families receive the support they need to learn, heal, and thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential and group treatment: bellefaire jcb delivers high-quality, results-driven residential care through three specialized levels of treatment: psychiatric, stabilization & critical care, and intensive treatment. We serve children and adolescents with complex emotional and behavioral health needs, many of whom have experienced significant trauma, including abuse, neglect, substance use, and mental health challenges. We also operate programs specifically constituted for youth with autism spectrum disorder. Our residential programs are built on multidisciplinary, evidence-based models designed to achieve strong clinical outcomes. Each child receives individualized, strenghts-based care that promotes stability, growth, independence, and long-term success. Demonstrating our capacity and impact, bellefaire jcb provides more than 20,000 bed days of high-quality residential treatment to approximately 150 youth each year, ensuring consistent support, safety, and measurable progress for every child we serve.
$15,795,090 spentof which $335,938 as grants$17,268,699 earned by the program34% of program spendingCommunity service & outpatient counseling: our outpatient division provides effective, compassionate, and individualized treatment for children, youth, and families experiencing a wide range of mental health concerns. Services are delivered by highly trained, licensed professionals and include aod counseling, psychotherapy, psychological testing, and assessment. We address challenges such as depression, family disruption, trauma, attention related disorders, and other behavioral health needs, ensuring accessible and high-impact care. In keeping with our mission and history, we also deliver an array of services to the jewish community, including the jewish big brothers big sisters mentoring program, counseling within jewish day schools, and the placement of jewish children in foster homes.
$12,396,102 spentof which $513,873 as grants$13,036,889 earned by the program27% of program spendingMonarch center for autism: founded in 2000, the monarch school has become a nationally recognized leader in autism education and treatment. As ohios first chartered nonpublic school for autism, monarch provides an exceptional learning environment where even students with the most significant needs can grow and thrive. Its visually based teaching model and enhanced curriculum maximize each childs capacity to learn, communciate, and achieve meaningful progress.
$11,222,767 spentof which $27,779 as grants$9,769,695 earned by the program24% of program spendingFoster care, adoption and other: the foster care program provides safe foster homes for youth who have been abused, neglected traumatized, and have mental health issues. Bellefaire offers several levels of foster care: traditional, specialized and therapeutic. The youth are placed in homes with specially trained foster parents where they receive individualized, highly structured intensive treatment in a nurturing family environment. Foster care services provided over 4,300 service days for the year for approximately 24 youth. Bjcb is committed to achieving permanent placement for children in foster care. Bellefaires adoption program provides expert assistance to all members of the adoptive triad. Birth parents, adoptive parents and adopters through domesting, interstate or international adoptions. The adoption program provides services for over 125 families per year.
$6,395,671 spentof which $449,483 as grants$4,246,664 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,809,630.
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 $70M to $60M (−14%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Carl Brass
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $263k → $850k.
10 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $15M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Cleveland). These are real filings, and they are not money BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU raised.
From the IRS filings of BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 82% · 2019 73% · 2020 73% · 2021 58% · 2022 38% · 2023 29% — 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
43% of BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
54% of BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $607k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.3M
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 BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 6 related entities
- Applewood Centers · exempt
- Wingspan Care Group · exempt
- Bluestone Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital · exempt
- Monarch Lifeworks · exempt
- Kids Connection · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU?
- BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,907,512 to it, the largest being E S PRENTISS FOUNDATION-IR ($1,875,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $4,907,512 in grants to BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU?
- E S PRENTISS FOUNDATION-IR is the largest funder on record, with $1,875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 48 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