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Child and Family Charities

Child and Family Charities (Michigan) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,022,527 to it, the largest being Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation ($908,635). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$19M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$4.0M
Net assets
$20M
21/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Child and Family Charities does

Mission

To help protect children by strengthening their families, promoting healthy personality development and restoring positive social interaction among family members. To offer a broad program of child welfare services and to work with the community on those programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Child Welfare Services, which integrates both the foster care and adoption programs. Total Expenses: $1,787,140Foster Care: The foster care program serves children who are removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. Foster care is provided by families recruited, trained, licensed, and supported by the agency. Adoption: The adoption program places children in permanent homes after parental rights have been terminated.

    $1,787,140 spent$399,508 earned by the program
    20% of program spending
  2. Angel House: Provides residential care and support to pregnant and parenting girls in the foster care system. Total Expenses: $641,892

    $641,892 spent
    7% of program spending
  3. Behavioral Health Services: Services to provide confidential private outpatient counseling, including substance abuse counseling. Trained professional social workers counsel children, adults, couples, and families. Employee assistance and outreach counseling services are also provided. Total Expenses: $1,041,348

    $1,041,348 spent
    12% of program spending
  4. Teen Court and Home Based Treatment: Teen Court is a juvenile justice diversion program which serves young first-time offenders who have committed a minor offense. Home Based Adolescent Treatement provides in-home behavioral health services to adolescents with mental health and substance use disorders. Total Expenses: $199,806 Child Abuse Prevention: Primary services include Family Growth Center, Community Outreach & Public Awareness, Medicaid Outreach, and Foster Care Supportive Visitation. Total Expenses: $ 455,729 Higher Ground and T.R.U.E.: Higher Ground provides crisis intervention, non-residential/prevention counseling, case managment, and if necessary, temporary housing shelter for youth ages 12 to 17 and their families. T.R.U.E. (Teens Respecting and Understanding Each Other) is a support and activity based group that provides help and guidance to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth between the ages of 14 and 18. Total Expenses: $390,288 Crossroads: Voluntary transitional living program for young people who are unable to live at home. Total Expenses: $908,308 Street Outreach Program: Provides homeless youth immediate access to services. Total…

    $5,454,864 spent$-201,507 earned by the program
    61% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,925,244.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.3M) Expenses 100 ($6.1M) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 99 ($6.2M) Expenses 106 ($6.5M) Net assets 92 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 112 ($7.0M) Expenses 111 ($6.8M) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 124 ($7.8M) Expenses 113 ($6.9M) Net assets 132 ($3.9M)2021 Revenue 184 ($12M) Expenses 129 ($7.9M) Net assets 258 ($7.5M)2022 Revenue 159 ($10M) Expenses 130 ($7.9M) Net assets 312 ($9.1M)2023 Revenue 171 ($11M) Expenses 149 ($9.1M) Net assets 381 ($11M)2024 Revenue 300 ($19M) Expenses 168 ($10M) Net assets 686 ($20M)
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Revenue (300)Expenses (168)Net assets (686)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 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $23M (+76%).

$4.4M
$4.0M
$4.1M
$5.0M
$8.6M
$11M
$13M
$23M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 21% · 2020 84% · 2021 50% · 2022 58% · 2023 64% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of Child and Family Charities’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,405 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$204k
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−$236k
’18
$242k
’19
$914k
’20
$3.7M
’21
$2.1M
’22
$1.7M
’23
$8.7M
’24
2.7
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.

Chief executive

Julie Thomasma

Chief Executive Off.

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1717202321192121
Joined·+0+5+10+6+3+5+1
No longer listed·0278531
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $73k → $343k.

8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $7k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Child and Family Services of Michigan). These are real filings, and they are not money Child and Family Charities raised.

From the IRS filings of Child and Family Charities’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 and Family Charities has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

61% 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 Charities.

23%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 38% · 2019 37% · 2020 41% · 2021 39% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% — 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

57% of Child and Family Charities's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of Child and Family Charities's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

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MI
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PA
RI
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $873k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Child and Family Charities runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding Child and Family Charities receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.7M on record.

Federal$15.7M
grants $15.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$10.9M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.0M
  • Department of Justice$691k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 8%Fundraising 5%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

85%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Child and Family Charities: 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 Child and Family Charities?
Child and Family Charities (Michigan) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,022,527 to it, the largest being Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation ($908,635). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Child and Family Charities have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $4,022,527 in grants to Child and Family Charities, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Child and Family Charities?
Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $908,635 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Child and Family Charities find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 33 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