Indiana · Nonprofit
CHILD ADVOCATES INC
CHILD ADVOCATES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,748,644 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($8,672,674). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHILD ADVOCATES INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Incshared funderslocal
- National Children's Alliance Incportfolio match
- Knot Today Incportfolio match
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.
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 79% · 2018 88% · 2019 53% · 2020 79% · 2021 77% · 2022 75% · 2023 64% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of CHILD ADVOCATES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.6M.
12 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CHILD ADVOCATES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
CHILD ADVOCATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 51% · 2019 92% · 2020 54% · 2021 31% · 2022 20% · 2023 63% — 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
43% of CHILD ADVOCATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
99% of CHILD ADVOCATES INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 49 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Incshared funderslocalMO · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you
- National Children's Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knot Today Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Partnership for Americas Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Focus on Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sexually Abused Children's Relief Endeavor (Sacred)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hedge Funds Care Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Pennsylvaniaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Network Against Child Abuseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indianapolis Indians Charities Incshared fundersIN · backs 22 organizations that share your funders
- The Ackerman Foundationshared fundersIN · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Arts Council of Indianapolis Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 113 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHILD ADVOCATES INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
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
90%
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 CHILD ADVOCATES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC?
- CHILD ADVOCATES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,748,644 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($8,672,674). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD ADVOCATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $12,748,644 in grants to CHILD ADVOCATES INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD ADVOCATES INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,672,674 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD ADVOCATES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 49funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing