Virginia · Nonprofit
CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER
CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER (Virginia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,284,310 to it, the largest being COHEN VETERANS NETWORK INC ($8,163,632). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Child & Family Services of Eastern Va Inc D/B/A the Up Center does
Mission
The up center has provided a safety net for the hampton roads community for 142 years. Presently, we impact approximately 10,000 people each year. Our mission is to partner with children, families, and communities to improve lives and outcomes through intervention, prevention, and support services.we envision a world in which both society and its systems are characterized by justice, fairness, and inclusivity, allowing every individual to engage and reach their full potential. Our aim is for a thriving and prosperous society that fosters equal access and opportunities for all individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Agency counseling services (mental health, sud, and housing & financial counseling):the up center provides a comprehensive array of trauma-informed, evidence-based outpatient mental health and substance use counseling services and peer recovery support to individuals and families across south hampton roads. These services are designed to meet the diverse needs of children, adolescents, adults, and families, particularly people who are uninsured or under-insured and facing significant life challenges. Clients come to the up center for support with a wide range of concerns, including grief and loss, depression, anxiety, strained relationships, behavioral issues in children and adolescents, school and workplace difficulties, life transitions, gender identity, trauma and abuse recovery, interpersonal violence, chronic relapse, ptsd, legal issues tied to substance use, psychiatric symptoms, and chronic health conditions.in addition to individualized counseling and recovery support, the up center offers a variety of psychoeducational group sessions to address specific needs and foster peer connection. These include anger management, batterer's intervention for individuals with a history…
$4,523,213 spentof which $2,179 as grants$818,432 earned by the program30% of program spendingAgency services for people with disabilities:the up center's program services for people with disabilities include the family life program, which supports individuals with intellectual disabilities by placing them in nurturing homes with specially trained families rather than in group homes or institutional settings. This approach promotes greater inclusion, independence, and quality of life for those served. In addition, the up center operates a representative payee program that offers essential financial management services for individuals with disabilities who cannot manage their finances, helping ensure stability and protection from financial exploitation.some of the highlights in this program service area for 2025 include: sponsored home services were provided to 73 individuals with disabilities, enabling them to live in supportive family environments rather than group homes or institutions. More than 1,000 individuals with disabilities - including many veterans - were able to avoid institutionalization and achieve greater community stability through the up center's bill-paying and financial management services.
$8,151,980 spentof which $2,505 as grants$9,641,445 earned by the program53% of program spendingAgency services for children & families:up center programs serving children and families include team up mentoring, healthy families, parents as teachers, and foster care services. These programs are designed to promote stability, strengthen family bonds, and support the healthy development of children and youth across south hampton roads. Across our programs, the up center supported 947 children.in 2025, some key points from our program services include:the team up mentoring program matched 247 youth with caring adult mentors, including 42 new mentor-mentee pairings. This included 126 youth matched in the program's new in-school mentoring pilot. Additionally, the program involved 26 waitlist youth in community activities and events.our early childhood home visiting programs - parents as teachers and healthy families - provided parenting education and support to 124 households, reaching a total of 261 individuals, including 152 children. These services promote child health, early development, and school readiness. The program also offered doula services to 19 birthing persons, with 75% of infants carried to full term and 83% of birthing mothers initiating breastfeeding. Dad…
$2,643,752 spentof which $22,183 as grants$1,401,215 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,318,945.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.5M to $9.2M (+22%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 6% · 2021 13% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Kristina Gill
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $2.8M.
10 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 71% · 2019 76% · 2020 40% · 2021 45% · 2022 38% · 2023 50% — 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
55% of CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
54% of CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $916k 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 & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.4M
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 CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER?
- CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER (Virginia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,284,310 to it, the largest being COHEN VETERANS NETWORK INC ($8,163,632). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $20,284,310 in grants to CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER?
- COHEN VETERANS NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,163,632 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 42 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