Connecticut · Nonprofit
CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC
CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,000 to it, the largest being THE TOW FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $19M
What Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut Inc does
Mission
To ensure healthy outcomes for all children in connecticut by advancing effective policies, stronger systems, and innovative practices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mental health care - in addition to their physical health, children's positive development depends on their social and emotional wellbeing. Chdi focuses on prevention, screening, early intervention and providing access to quality children's mental health services and trauma informed care for children with behavioral health needs. We collaborate with state agencies, community based providers, schools, and academic institutions, and family advocates to identify, implement, and evaluate effective models of treatment, and have developed anapproach to ensure these research based models work in real world settings, resulting in better outcomes for children and families. Our work has resulted in more than 14,000 children receiving an evidence based treatment for trauma and other behavioral health conditions since 2008. We have helped connecticut build trauma informed systems of care, develop and advance a model of comprehensive school mental health, and advanced statewide behavioral health policy and system changes so children can thrive. Chdi co developed and coordinates the connecticut school based diversion initiative (sbdi), which helps schools identify and connect students with…
$9,012,241 spent$10,138,131 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,012,241.
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 $1.6M to $15M (+836%).
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 71% · 2018 75% · 2019 74% · 2020 75% · 2021 29% · 2022 94% · 2023 84% · 2024 82% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jeff Vanderploeg
President & CEO
Board chair
Linda Mayes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $5.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Fund of Connecticut Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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 HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $57.4M on record — $10.9M federal, $46.6M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.9M
- Management Consultant Services$30.5M
- Educational Services$6.6M
- State Aid Grants$3.7M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$2.4M
- Client Therapy Services$1.7M
- Educ & Training For Employees$921k
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 HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT 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 HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC?
- CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,000 to it, the largest being THE TOW FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $267,000 in grants to CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC?
- THE TOW FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 3 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