Mississippi · Nonprofit
CARES CENTER INC
CARES CENTER INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,500 to it, the largest being UW WILLIAM H ELLSWORTH FND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Cares Center Inc does
Mission
To improve the lives of children and families by providing a continuum of compassionate, measurable, and effective behavioral health, education, and social services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cares center psychiatric residential treatment facility for adolescents ages 6 to 17 with severe emotional and/or behavioral disturbances. The 60 bed facility includes comprehensive services including intensive individual, group, and family therapy; medical services, therapeutic recreation; educational interventions; and social skill training. 204 individuals were served during 2025.
$9,712,184 spentof which $4,533 as grants$11,535,272 earned by the program49% of program spendingEducational services - cares schools in jackson, hattiesburg and biloxi are accredited, non-public schools designed to meet the educational and behavioral needs of students whose behavior prohibits participation in the public school setting. The canopy school is a fully-accredited school that empowers the diverse abilities of children through an individualized approach to education in a supportive, innovative and transformative environment. 335 individuals were served during 2025.
$8,169,631 spentof which $8,100 as grants$7,354,378 earned by the program41% of program spendingThe early intervention autism clinics - early intervention programs utilizing applied behavior analysis (aba) for children 18 months to 8 years old diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. 27 children served during 2025.
$1,818,961 spent$1,376,374 earned by the program9% of program spendingCanopy property.
$19,147 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,719,923.
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 $2.4M to $8.7M (+255%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 14% · 2022 8% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of CARES CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
John Damon
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $600k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mississippi Children's Home Society). These are real filings, and they are not money CARES CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CARES CENTER INC’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
CARES CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
CARES CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CARES CENTER INC's revenue grew 46% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like CARES CENTER 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Mississippi Children's Home Society · exempt
- Mississippi Children's Home Services · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARES CENTER 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 CARES CENTER INC?
- CARES CENTER INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,500 to it, the largest being UW WILLIAM H ELLSWORTH FND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARES CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,500 in grants to CARES CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARES CENTER INC?
- UW WILLIAM H ELLSWORTH FND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARES CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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