Texas · Nonprofit
CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC
CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,551,346 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,756,063). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Children at Heart Ministries Inc does
Mission
Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Children at heart ministries, inc. (cahm), serves a family of nonprofit ministries, including: texas baptist children's home, miracle farm, and gracewood. These ministries are dedicated to transforming the lives of vulnerable children and families by providing them with the support and structure they need to find hope, heal, and put their lives back on track. Cahm serves the ministries by donating services including financial and human resource management, fundraising and communications, charitable estate planning, and technology.
$2,528,864 spentof which $1,083,268 as grants$17,225 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,528,864.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.1M to $4.4M (+42%).
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 7% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC’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. 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
Todd Roberson
President/CEO
Board chair
Linda Bebee
Chair & trustee
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $654k → $492k.
10 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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: $24M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children at Heart Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 92% · 2019 46% · 2020 88% · 2021 37% · 2022 48% · 2023 41% — 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
50% of CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
71% of CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Children at Heart Foundation Inc · exempt
- Gracewood Inc · exempt
- Miracle Farm Inc · exempt
- Texas Baptist Children's Home & Fam Sys · exempt
- Texas Baptist Children's Home Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC?
- CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,551,346 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,756,063). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $4,551,346 in grants to CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,756,063 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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