Maryland · Nonprofit
CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC
CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,290,026 to it, the largest being FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC ($9,482,608). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Child First Authority Inc does
Mission
The mission of child first is to develop youth and strengthen families by providing high quality community schools, after-school and summer learning programs that promote academic achievement, social and emotional well-being, and parent leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Out-of-school time (ost) programming at child first authority is a research-informed strategy that extends learning beyond the school day, providing safe and enriching environments where students grow academically, socially, and emotionally. Ost programs reinforce classroom learning while offering opportunities for exploration, skill-building, and youth development.at child first authority, ost programs serve as a structured platform for coordinating academic support, enrichment, and student engagement in alignment with school-day goals. Programs are designed to address barriers to success such as learning loss, limited access to enrichment, and lack of safe afterschool options. Each site is led by a program coordinator who manages daily operations, supports staff, and uses data to guide planning and improvement. Additional site leadership positions include an academic coordinator who is responsible for implementing and supporting all component of the academic portion of the program, along with a parent investment coordinator who cultivates relationships with parents and strengthens family engagement.core components include academic enrichment, youth development and leadership,…
$1,438,078 spent51% of program spendingCommunity schools are a research-based strategy that transforms schools into neighborhood hubs where students, families, and communities access integrated academic, health, and social supports. At child first authority, community schools operate as the "operating system" for coordinating partnerships, aligning resources, and addressing barriers to learning such as chronic absenteeism, unmet health needs, and family instability. Each school is staffed with a community school coordinator who leads data-driven planning, family engagement, and partner alignment to deliver targeted supports. Core components include expanded learning opportunities, family and community engagement, integrated student supports, and collaborative leadership. By leveraging schools as trusted anchors, community schools improve attendance, academic outcomes, and overall well-being while advancing equity in historically underserved communities.
$1,393,988 spent49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,832,066.
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 $1.4M to $1.9M (+30%).
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 29% · 2018 27% · 2020 20% · 2021 34% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% · 2024 25% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Chief executive
Ojeda Hall
Executive director
Board chair
Brian Gordon
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.1M.
2 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 FIRST AUTHORITY INC’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 FIRST AUTHORITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 FIRST AUTHORITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 89% · 2019 83% · 2020 85% · 2021 76% · 2022 71% · 2023 75% — 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
38% of CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
100% of CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $750k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 FIRST AUTHORITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $395k on record.
- Grant$395k
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 FIRST AUTHORITY 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC?
- CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,290,026 to it, the largest being FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC ($9,482,608). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $11,290,026 in grants to CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC?
- FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,482,608 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 20 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