Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Carson Valley Children's Aid
Carson Valley Children's Aid (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,162,441 to it, the largest being ROBERT N CARSON 1 ($4,805,546). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Carson Valley Children's Aid does
Mission
Carson Valley Children's Aid (cvca) is dedicated to delivering services to children, youth and families that ensure their safety, build on their strengths, honor their differences and empower them to achieve their goals for success in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
As of 06/30/2024, the organization ceased conducting the residential and academic program, as well as the behavioral health services program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Residential and academic: flourtown, pa campus - there are five residential buildings licensed for 109 youths: 49 dependent care beds; and 60 residential treatment beds. There was a private academic licensed school for grades 7 though 12 and special education with small classroom size, individualized support, and a focus on credit recovery that stopped services as of 6/30/24. Also, there is a treatment program for day students who attend the school that also stopped services as of 6/30/24
$7,534,476 spent63% of program spendingNursery school: a private preschool and childcare center that provides childcare, preschool and before and after school programs. Children from infants to five years of age attend the child care and preschool programs. The curriculum reflects the learning through play philosophy which promotes cognitive, motor and social skills development through an active, safe and creative learning environment.
$1,223,317 spent$1,473,378 earned by the program10% of program spendingCommunity based programs: philadelphia and montgomery counties: a full continuum of community based placement services are offered including: foster care, general and treatment; community homes, a form of treatment foster care with up to fouth youths living in a home with a professional parent; supervised independent living apartments for older youth; in addition, there are prevention and early intervention services such a truancy, parents as teachers, and rapid service response programs. Norristown is the location of the family center and housing resource center. Teachers, and rapid service response programs. Norristown is the location of the family center and housing resource center.
$1,980,498 spent17% of program spendingBehavioural health
$1,195,458 spent$1,346,354 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,933,749.
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 $24M to $23M (−6%).
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 47% · 2018 49% · 2019 51% · 2020 50% · 2021 58% · 2022 54% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Carson Valley Children's Aid’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $4.0M → $157k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Carson Valley Children's Aid’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
Carson Valley Children's Aid leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Carson Valley Children's Aid.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 54% · 2019 58% · 2020 94% · 2021 78% · 2022 63% · 2023 89% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Carson Valley Children's Aid's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
100% of Carson Valley Children's Aid's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Carson Valley Children's Aid's revenue fell 54% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Carson Valley Children's Aid receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $885k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$885k
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 Carson Valley Children's Aid
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Carson Valley Children's Aid: 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 Carson Valley Children's Aid?
- Carson Valley Children's Aid (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,162,441 to it, the largest being ROBERT N CARSON 1 ($4,805,546). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Carson Valley Children's Aid have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $6,162,441 in grants to Carson Valley Children's Aid, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Carson Valley Children's Aid?
- ROBERT N CARSON 1 is the largest funder on record, with $4,805,546 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Carson Valley Children's Aid find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 16 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