New York · Nonprofit
CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC
CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $797,856 to it, the largest being CARES NYS CHARITABLE TRUST ($145,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $430k
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $798k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Child Life Society Inc does
Mission
Child life society improves the quality of life of individuals living with cystic fibrosis (cf) and other life-threatening and life-shortening genetic lung diseases. Our signature program, the lifeshine respite in key west, fl, helps families with sick children experience the remarkable benefits of the unique climate with heavily salinated ocean air in specially designed and maintained facilities for individuals with cf. Other core services include: counseling, information and referrals, assistance improving access to and affordability of cf medicine, equipment, therapies, and treatments, and assistance maintaining healthier home environments to help families navigate the complex requirements and unique challenges of raising healthier children with cf. In a typical year, 90 families with children suffering life-threatening and life-shortening impacts of cystic fibrosis benefit from an array of services through the incredible generosity of child life society contributors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
4a.lifeshine respite: child life society (cls) provides respite trips at no cost to children with cf and their families. We have observed that sending families for respite in locations not designed for our individuals with cf led to a variety of unnecessary stressors and health risks for the children and families. Cls launched a multi-year campaign to build specially-designed facilities in which families of children with cf would be able to enjoy safer, less stress respite. We have successfully funded and built two (2) respite homes to-date, with the goal of three (3) more within ten (10) years to meet the increasing demand for services. In 2017, the two lifeshine respite homes provided 10 therapeutic respite trips to 16 children with cf and their families (69 total individuals) at no cost to the family. Trips include as needed, ground transportation, airfare, accommodation, food and other expenses. Requests for services continue to increase and increasingly strain the capacity of the organization to respond.
$294,705 spent100% of program spending4b. Information, referral & support: child life society served 83 children with cf, 25 parents with cf, and 291 of their family members in 2017 (90 families). Based upon needs assessments, child life society provided direct support and relief to these families including assistance obtaining vitamins, medicine, medical equipment, therapy, treatments and household help to ensure cf-safe home environments. Child life society conducts outreach and education to increase awareness and understanding of cf, and to help increase access to available services for families. In 2017, we conducted three (3) educational events that helped raise awareness and educated more than 310 individuals in new york, new jersey, florida and canada. Child life society conducted seven (7) support group meetings via five conference calls (150-200 individuals) and two dinners (42 individuals).
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $294,705.
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 $1.5M to $1.8M (+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.
100% of CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $63k → $178k.
6 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 LIFE SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 LIFE SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 LIFE SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 39% · 2019 51% · 2020 54% · 2021 45% · 2022 25% · 2023 56% — 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
24% of CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
78% of CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $341k 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 LIFE SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% 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 LIFE SOCIETY 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 LIFE SOCIETY INC?
- CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $797,856 to it, the largest being CARES NYS CHARITABLE TRUST ($145,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $797,856 in grants to CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC?
- CARES NYS CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 46 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