Oklahoma · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC
CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,850,031 to it, the largest being United Way of Norman Inc ($1,398,040). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Center for Children & Families Inc does
Mission
To heal children, empower youth, and strengthen families because every child deserves to grow up safe, nutured and loved.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Healing children through counseling and play therapy for children and youth who have experienced relationship trauma. children and youth received counseling.
$1,178,264 spent45% of program spendingStrengthing families through parent education and support services for teen parents, new parents, divorcing parents, and families struggling with abuse and neglect issues. parents and children received family education and support.
$861,746 spent33% of program spendingEmpowering youth through enriching out-of-school time activities for youth from low-income neighborhoods. children and youth received enriching out-of-school time services.
$568,925 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,608,935.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.1M to $4.6M (−10%).
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 43% · 2018 43% · 2019 41% · 2020 50% · 2021 28% · 2022 56% · 2023 63% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Melissa Klink
CEO
Board chair
Quy Nguyen
Community outreach commitee chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $339k → $522k.
7 of 44 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 CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 55% · 2019 45% · 2020 39% · 2021 31% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% — 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
70% of CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
75% of 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. $318k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $285k on record.
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$138k
- Other Misc Hlth Practitioners$61k
- Individual And Family Services$42k
- Assistance Payments$26k
- Legal Setlmts Reportable-IRS$12k
- Men.Hlth Practitioner-exc.Phys$3k
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 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 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 CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC?
- CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,850,031 to it, the largest being United Way of Norman Inc ($1,398,040). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $3,850,031 in grants to CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC?
- United Way of Norman Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,398,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 44 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