Connecticut · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC
CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,725,347 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION ($5,996,657). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to promote the legal rights and interests of poor children who are dependent for their care upon connecticuts judicial, child welfare,health, mental health, education and juvenile systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The medical legal partnership project provided legal services to 615 low-income children across ct addressing social and environmental conditions such as substandard housing and inappropriate services in school settings. The project also provided 286 legal consultations to pediatric providers impacting specific individual children and more than 80 training sessions for parents and pediatric providers concerning rights of children. The projects advocacy also resulted in system reforms designed to protect low-income families across ct from losing utility services because they could not afford to pay their bills.
$689,521 spent$894,347 earned by the program26% of program spendingThe child welfare project provided legal services to 81 children and youth who were alleged to be abused or neglected, ensuring they were placed in safe, supportive homes and did not languish in foster care without a plan for permanency, and helping them access appropriate mental and physical health and educational services. The project also provided training and technical assistance and maintained an online library of pleadings to help increase the knowledge and improve the skills of private attorneys, primarily solo practitioners, who are appointed by the court to represent low-income children and parents in child protection matters.
$407,551 spent15% of program spendingThe education and juvenile justice project provided legal services to 211 low-income children and youth, helping them receive appropriate school services and reduce non-school problems that were interfering with education and increasing their risk of involvement with the justice system. Cca also provided legal rights trainings regarding reentry, and education rights, to providers and youth. Cca continued its collaboration with state agencies and community providers to implement an innovative restorative justice program inside 16 youth facilities.
$478,258 spent18% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 1,072,691, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 VARIOUS RELATED PROGRAMS TO THE ORGANIZATIONS MISSION TO PROMOTE THE LEGAL RIGHTS AND INTEREST OF POOR CHILDREN
$1,072,691 spent41% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,648,021.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.7M to $3.3M (+24%).
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: 2019 21% · 2020 21% · 2021 30% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% · 2024 21% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Eagan Sarah
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $973k → $1.6M.
15 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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 CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 38% · 2019 47% · 2020 48% · 2021 36% · 2022 46% · 2023 50% — 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
64% of CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
90% of CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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
CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Attorney Fees$519k
- Management Consultant Services$298k
- Training Costs Non-Employees$170k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$133k
- Educ & Training For Employees$44k
- Contract Attorneys$32k
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 CHILDRENS ADVOCACY 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC?
- CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,725,347 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION ($5,996,657). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $12,725,347 in grants to CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC?
- CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,996,657 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 74 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing