Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION
CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,632,710 to it, the largest being BELIEVE FOUNDATION ($999,853). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Child Loss Foundation does
Mission
The Child Loss Foundation continues to expand its reach and strives to be a nationally recognized leader in providing comprehensive support to parents grieving the death of a child through retreats, financial assistance and employer-sponsored benefits.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The believe fund helps families with financial assistance when they need it most for hardships like funeral costs, medical bills, and grief therapy.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Child loss retreatschild loss retreats offer a safe, supportive environment where grieving parents can find emotional support and connection with others who have experienced similar loss. Most retreats are held at the foundation's dedicated facility, faith's lodge, in northern wisconsin, with additional retreats hosted at rented facilities in other regions. Each retreat includes group and individual counseling, wellness activities such as massage and meditation/yoga, memorial experiences, private accommodations, and all meals, with financial assistance available to ensure accessibility. Since first welcoming guests in 2007, we've served more than 13,000 individuals seeking connection and hope. In 2025, 580 people attended more than 30 retreats throughout the year.
$898,377 spent74% of program spendingThe child loss believe fundthe child loss believe fund was established in memory of eve gassen to provide immediate, practical financial assistance to grieving parents in minnesota facing hardships resulting from the death of a child. Assistance may be used for funeral expenses, medical bills, living expenses or therapy. Since its inception in 2019, the fund has provided financial support to more than 700 families. In 2025, the foundation distributed $325,000 to more than 170 families during times of acute need.
$269,785 spentof which $235,394 as grants22% of program spendingChild loss @ workchild loss @ work is an employer-sponsored benefit designed to support employees and employers during an employee's transition back to work following the death of a child. The program was developed in response to widespread reports from grieving parents of challenging and often unsupportive workplace experiences after loss. The program seeks to foster healthier workplace dialogue around grief and improve outcomes for both employees and employers. Child loss @ work is offered to employers at no cost unless services are utilized. As of 2025, the program covered approximately 50,000 employees across more than 30 organizations.
$46,840 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,215,002.
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 $3.5M to $6.1M (+72%).
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: 2020 8% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION’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. 4 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
Kelly Mcdyre
President and CEO
Board chair
Barnaby Allen
Board chair & treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $63k → $296k.
15 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 LOSS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 LOSS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
75% 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 LOSS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 33% · 2019 27% · 2020 25% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 2023 34% — 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
52% of CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
83% of CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $619k arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 LOSS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION?
- CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,632,710 to it, the largest being BELIEVE FOUNDATION ($999,853). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $2,632,710 in grants to CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION?
- BELIEVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $999,853 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 55 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