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Cen-Clear Child Services Inc

Cen-Clear Child Services Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,263 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ($148,001). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$47M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$263k
Net assets
$36M
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Cen-Clear Child Services Inc does

Mission

CenClear is an organization dedicated to leading our community with superior quality and innovative services to children and families by providing physical, social, emotional, educational and leadership development. The philosophy by which we operate is "Reaching Children through Families."

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide therapeutic and supportive mental health service, from birth to geriatric ages across home, school, and community environments

    $23,602,005 spent
    58% of program spending
  2. Administration of Federal, State, and donated funds for comprehensive preschool services of economically disadvantaged and disabled children and their families.

    $14,045,540 spent
    35% of program spending
  3. Cen-Clear Child Services, Inc. programs for food service, transportation, and other community or corporate costs

    $2,918,336 spent
    7% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,565,881.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($37M) Expenses 100 ($31M) Net assets 100 ($33M)2019 Revenue 100 ($37M) Expenses 115 ($35M) Net assets 105 ($35M)2020 Revenue 100 ($37M) Expenses 132 ($41M) Net assets 94 ($31M)2021 Revenue 115 ($43M) Expenses 134 ($41M) Net assets 100 ($33M)2022 Revenue 126 ($46M) Expenses 143 ($44M) Net assets 102 ($34M)2023 Revenue 130 ($48M) Expenses 150 ($46M) Net assets 106 ($35M)2024 Revenue 128 ($47M) Expenses 154 ($48M) Net assets 106 ($35M)2025 Revenue 129 ($47M) Expenses 153 ($47M) Net assets 109 ($36M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (153)Net assets (109)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $37M to $39M (+7%).

$35M
$37M
$39M
$37M
$38M
$38M
$38M
$40M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 27% · 2019 28% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% · 2024 30% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

29% of Cen-Clear Child Services Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6.1M
’18
$1.6M
’19
−$4.0M
’20
$1.1M
’21
$2.4M
’22
$1.8M
’23
−$216k
’24
$417k
’25
0.8
months of
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

Mark Wendel

CEO

Board chair

Alan Larson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed1314131618211918
Joined·+5+0+4+5+7+4+0
No longer listed·4113461
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $39k → $29k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Cen-Clear Child Services 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

Cen-Clear Child Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79% 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 Cen-Clear Child Services Inc.

56%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 55% · 2022 70% · 2023 64% — 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 Cen-Clear Child Services Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Cen-Clear Child Services Inc draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.

NY
PA
RI
MD
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Cen-Clear Child Services Inc's revenue grew 29% between 2018 and 2025.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding Cen-Clear Child Services Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84.9M on record.

Federal$84.9M
grants $84.9Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$83.0M
  • Department of Agriculture$1.9M

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Cen-Clear Child Services Inc?
Cen-Clear Child Services Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,263 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ($148,001). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Cen-Clear Child Services Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $263,263 in grants to Cen-Clear Child Services Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Cen-Clear Child Services Inc?
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $148,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Cen-Clear Child Services Inc 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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