Delaware · Nonprofit
CHILD INC
CHILD INC (Delaware) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,804,327 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($2,102,615). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Child Inc does
Mission
To be the leading advocate for delaware's children. We provide creative prevention and treatment programs that meet the changing needs of families. We serve dependent, neglected, and abused children and their parents. We provide programs for those involved in domestic violence situations, especially children. By protecting the victims and treating those responsible for acts of domestic violence, we help children heal.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Domestic violence services include 2 shelters for female victims of intimate partner violence (ipv) and their children and provides motel sheltering for male victims. During 2025, 296 adults and children were sheltered. The agency also operates a 24-hour multi-lingual domestic violence hotline which served 1,394 calls during 2025. Related services offered include: clincial treament services for adult survivors and offenders of ipv and children/adolescents who have experienced the effects of domestic violence. Supervised family visitation centers, assistance for victims filing protection from abuse petitions, transitional housing services for victims, and community health advocacy. During 2025, 2,685 individuals utilized other related services.
$3,209,141 spentof which $293,183 as grants$153,050 earned by the program61% of program spendingEmergency housing for children/youth provides temporary housing for children and youth in the custody of the division of family services due to abuse, neglect, and dependency issues. During 2025, 64 youth were sheltered. In addition, 64 youth were provided counseling services by an on-site psychotherapist.
$897,381 spent17% of program spendingFamily support and parenting education services provides statewide parenting education classes and workshops and community/agency based family support programming. Programming includes case management, counseling and the operation of family resource centers. During 2025, 6,945 individuals (not unduplicated) were served under this program.
$600,773 spentof which $300 as grants$9,165 earned by the program11% of program spendingSpecialized foster care provides foster family placement for youth who cannot reside in their own homes due to recent or past abuse and/or neglect at the hands of their parents, guardians, or caregivers. During 2025, the program served 15 youth, for a total of 2,252 days of care in 7 foster homes.
$295,711 spent6% of program spendingThe youth development program includes the runaway and homeless youth (rhy) project, which operates a 24-hour runaway hotline that serves as a vital link between runaways, their families, and child, inc. Counseling services. The project offers short-term emergency shelter care for runaways or homeless youth, provides follow-up counseling and supportive services, offers anger management for youth and conducts outreach through the community and local schools. During 2025, 7,002 youth and families were served through this program, and 62 callers were served through the runaway hotline.
$231,250 spent4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,234,256.
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 2024 to 2025, from $13M to $14M (+10%).
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 76% · 2018 73% · 2019 83% · 2020 84% · 2021 81% · 2022 81% · 2023 85% · 2024 74% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of CHILD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Lori Sitler
Executive director
Board chair
Kara Hammond Coyle
President & board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $157k → $386k.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 31 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 73% · 2019 80% · 2020 74% · 2021 78% · 2022 77% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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
63% of CHILD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
89% of CHILD INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 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 INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.5M on record — $5.2M federal, $22.4M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
- Department of Justice$500k
- FED GRANT SUB RECIPIENT$7.2M
- GRANTS IN AID$4.6M
- EMERGENCY SHELTER$4.3M
- GRANTS$2.3M
- PURCHASED FOSTER CARE$1.6M
- FAMILY SUPPORT$1.2M
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 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILD 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 INC?
- CHILD INC (Delaware) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,804,327 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($2,102,615). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,804,327 in grants to CHILD INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD INC?
- DELAWARE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $2,102,615 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 31 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