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CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC

CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,223 to it, the largest being EMILY BALZ SMITH FOUNDATION INC ($32,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$86k
Net assets
$310k
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Center for Childrens Rights Inc does

Mission

Build a responsive community where every child and young person experiences belonging, dignity, and possibility.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided restorative circles in the community and school settings to over 500 youth.

    $830,347 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Continued to provide restorative justice community conferences as a diversion program for 100 youth.

  3. Supported over 50 youth through holistic, individual supports to youth at risk of and involved with the juvenile justice system.

  4. All other services that contribute to our mission of advancing the rights of children.

    $3,804 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $834,151.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($197k) Expenses 100 ($219k) Net assets 100 ($49k)2021 Revenue 245 ($483k) Expenses 220 ($481k) Net assets 106 ($52k)2022 Revenue 380 ($750k) Expenses 330 ($722k) Net assets 245 ($120k)2023 Revenue 485 ($955k) Expenses 379 ($829k) Net assets 601 ($294k)2024 Revenue 228 ($448k) Expenses 231 ($505k) Net assets 486 ($237k)2025 Revenue 568 ($1.1M) Expenses 479 ($1.0M) Net assets 634 ($310k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (568)Expenses (479)Net assets (634)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 2022 to 2023, from $134k to $314k (+135%).

$55k
$73k
$134k
$314k
$261k
$325k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 38% · 2021 35% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 93% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$22k
’20
$3k
’21
$28k
’22
$126k
’23
−$56k
’24
$72k
’25
2.0
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed1199999
Joined·+0+0+0+0+5
No longer listed·20005
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $62.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 RIGHTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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 RIGHTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 RIGHTS INC.

38%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 74% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

66% of CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

MN
CA
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)42% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS 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 CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC?
CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,223 to it, the largest being EMILY BALZ SMITH FOUNDATION INC ($32,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $86,223 in grants to CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC?
EMILY BALZ SMITH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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