Oklahoma · Nonprofit
CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC
CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,626,389 to it, the largest being LOVE MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($208,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Calm Waters Center for Children & Families Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to help children and families in their grief journey caused by death, divorce or other signficant loss.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Calm waters center for children and families is a safe, supportive environment where children, young adults and families share their grief emotions and experiences, while learning healthy coping skills that allow them to continue the healing process following a death, divorce or other significant loss. Calm waters offers free evening grief support groups to those who have experienced the death of a loved one or a divorce. Free school based grief groups provide support for students pre-k through high school in okc metro schools, serving children with family loss issues such as death, divorce, foster care, deployment, incarceration or deportation. The agency also provides grief counseling sessions to children and adults who have experienced a loss due to death.
$920,310 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $920,310.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $873k to $1.2M (+38%).
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.
68% of CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Trisha Koelsch
CEO
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 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $86k → $293k.
10 of 42 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 CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
51% 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 CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 48% · 2019 25% · 2020 22% · 2021 19% · 2022 22% · 2023 17% — 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
56% of CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
93% of CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $632k 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
CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES 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 CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC?
- CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,626,389 to it, the largest being LOVE MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($208,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,626,389 in grants to CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC?
- LOVE MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $208,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 42 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