Ohio · Nonprofit
CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS
CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS (Ohio) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,039 to it, the largest being GAR FOUNDATION ($306,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $861k
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Child Guidance & Family Solutions does
Mission
The mission of Child Guidance & Family Solutions is to be a nationally recognized leader providing innovative and effective mental health services. The organization is committed to the integrated care of mind and body through strategic partnerships, the (continued on schedule o) development of sustainable programs that enrich communities, and advocacy for the health of youth, adults, and families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Outpatient behavioral health services: these services include individual and group counseling, mental health assessments, and crisis intervention. In 2024, 2153 children and adults were served. The objective of this program is to promote resiliency and support recovery from mental health disorders as well as alcohol and substance use disorders.
$5,257,318 spent$4,846,707 earned by the program58% of program spendingCommunity psychiatric supportive treatment & therapeutic behavior services:this program includes the development of daily living skills, acquisition of developmental assets, coordination of individualized treatment plans, client advocacy, linkage to needed services, restoration of social skills, ongoing assessment of needs, and symptom monitoring. The objective is to promote resiliency and support recovery from mental illness and substance use disorders. The target population includes youth and adults who benefit from wrap-around supports.in 2024, 928 children received services through this program.
$1,540,938 spent$1,420,586 earned by the program17% of program spendingOther program services:in addition to its core clinical offerings, Child Guidance & Family Solutions provides a range of community-based and preventative services that support emotional and behavioral wellness in children and families. These programs include early childhood mental health consultation in preschool settings, school-based counseling and crisis response in partnership with local districts, home-based support for youth with severe emotional disturbances, and a specialized treatment model for adolescents and young adults experiencing a first episode of psychosis.
$1,178,364 spent$1,155,350 earned by the program13% of program spendingPsychiatric services:this program provides psychiatric evaluations and medication management. Its objective is to promote resiliency and support recovery from mental health and substance use disorders by reducing, stabilizing, or eliminating neurobiologically based symptoms. The target population includes individuals diagnosed with neurobiologically based mental disorders such as mood and anxiety disorders, adhd, and schizophrenia. In 2024, 631 children received services through this program.
$1,087,721 spent$1,002,767 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,064,341.
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 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $14M (+20%).
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 6% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 38% · 2022 22% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 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
Karen Talbott
President & CEO
Board chair
Charles Billows
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $84k → $27k.
5 of 34 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: $2.6M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Summit and Medina). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 60% · 2019 60% · 2020 63% · 2021 29% · 2022 15% · 2023 36% — 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
47% of CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
52% of CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS's revenue fell 31% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$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 GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: 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 GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS?
- CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS (Ohio) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,039 to it, the largest being GAR FOUNDATION ($306,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $861,039 in grants to CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS?
- GAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $306,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34 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