New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC
CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC (New York) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,034,672 to it, the largest being RENATE HANS & MARIA HOFMANN TR XXXXX9009 ($1,075,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What Center for Family Representation Inc does
Mission
Cfr's mission is to defend the rights of parents and youth through free, holistic interdisciplinary legal and social work representation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Interdisciplinary family defense teams:our mission is to defend the rights of families and prevent or minimize the time any child spends in the foster system. Most of our clients are low income black and brown parents. We defend more than 2300 parents annually and have defended nearly 14,000 parents since 2007 against charges of neglect or abuse in manhattan, queens, the bronx, and staten island family courts. Our successful model combines an attorney, a social worker, and a parent advocate-system impacted parents who have been impacted by the foster system. By combining legal and social work advocacy with parent mentoring, we consistently keep half our clients' children out of care and significantly reduce foster care stays. We save millions in tax dollars and more importantly permit children to grow up in their own families and communities.
$16,857,760 spent84% of program spendingYouth defense practice: the same city agency that runs the foster system also runs the teenage incarceration system. We represent primarily black and brown youth who are criminally charged in family court or "youth parts" in queens, manhattan and the bronx with the same interdisciplinary model we bring to family defense. Our goal is to keep youth home, with their families to avoid the devastating impact of separation and incarceration.
$1,116,283 spent6% of program spendingCommunity advocacy project (cap) 608,249: cap provides 'early defense' to parents facing a city investigation of maltreatment, with the goal of avoiding a court prosecution altogether and keeping families intact and connected to services. Cap also provides parents with representation to modify the state records that correspond to a family policing investigation; the records often prevent parents from seeking employment in fields where employers regularly check these records. When a parent's family defense case is dismissed or they have overcome challenges that lead to maltreatment charges, cap assists parents with amending these records, thus expanding employment opportunities for our clients. Home for good 1,488,767: cfr families often face several challenges in addition to a family court case and often need assistance in the areas of housing (to prevent eviction and obtain stable housing), immigration (to achieve legal status and access culturally competent services), public benefits (to secure and sustain important benefits like medicaid), and in criminal court (to defend allegations that are related to their family court case). Challenges in any of these areas can lead…
$2,097,016 spent10% of program spendingTraining, technical assistance, and policy advocacy 15,460: annually cfr provides training and technical assistance to more than 1,500 professionals across the country, including judges, on our interdisciplinary model. Staff also regularly host community based trainings for parents and youth. To date, we have worked with over 11,000 practitioners in 20 states, who hope to replicate some or all of our nationally recognized interdisciplinary cornerstone advocacy model. Cfr staff regularly present at national conferences and sit on advisory boards and work groups directed toward legislative and policy reform to promote justice for indigent families and youth.
$18,778 spent$1,600 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,089,837.
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 $11M to $25M (+137%).
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 10% · 2018 89% · 2019 92% · 2020 89% · 2021 92% · 2022 92% · 2023 94% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
S Penny Windle Esq
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $172k → $853k.
12 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
35% 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 FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 46% · 2019 17% · 2020 43% · 2021 38% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC has grown faster than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- Registration for Meetings&Conf$2k
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 FAMILY REPRESENTATION 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC?
- CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC (New York) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,034,672 to it, the largest being RENATE HANS & MARIA HOFMANN TR XXXXX9009 ($1,075,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $5,034,672 in grants to CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC?
- RENATE HANS & MARIA HOFMANN TR XXXXX9009 is the largest funder on record, with $1,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 48 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