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CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY
CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY (Ohio) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,839 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($236,550). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $515k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $580k
- Net assets
- $271k
What Child and Family Advocates of Cuyahoga County does
Mission
The mission of cfacc is to make a difference for every child served through advocacy, education and collaborative alliances. Cfacc approaches child advocacy in a unique way, through the recruitment, training and support of casa volunteers who are assigned to advocate for the best interests of children in a family, whether one child or a sibling group. Casa volunteers bring different skills and perspectives; however, each has one common goal - providing the highest quality advocacy for the best interests of each child.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cfacc approaches child welfare and best interests advocacy in a unique way, providing court appointed special advocate volunteers (casas) who are assigned as partners to advocate for the best interests of cleveland-area children, whether one child or a sibling group. Casa volunteers investigate, monitor, and seek to preserve the welfare of children and vulnerable foster youth, making service referral, placement and permanency recommendations to the local juvenile court. Each casa volunteer brings different skills and perspectives to their role; however, each has one common goal - providing the highest quality advocacy for the best interests of each child. 2025 accomplishments include: - cfacc adminsiters the cuyahoga county casa program, overseeing the child-advocacy work of 96 active casa volunteers who served 156 children and youth in foster care in 2025. - cleveland casa volunteers recorded 3,877 child advocacy volunteer hours during 2025. - cfacc has served 951 unique children since our inception in 2016. - cfacc offered two casa pre-service training events in 2025, to prepare 21 new casa volunteers for service with local foster-system involved youth. - cfacc distributed over…
$374,624 spent$5,010 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $374,624.
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 $281k to $170k (−39%).
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 57% · 2018 88% · 2020 78% · 2021 64% · 2022 68% · 2023 51% · 2024 41% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $50k → $63k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2020 50% · 2021 84% · 2022 70% · 2023 40% — 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
60% of CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
82% of CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY?
- CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY (Ohio) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,839 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($236,550). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $579,839 in grants to CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $236,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCATES OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 17 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