Texas · Nonprofit
Children At Risk
Children At Risk (Texas) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,727,040 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($2,653,709). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Children At Risk does
Mission
Children At Risk (C@R) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Since its inception, C@R has placed high value on ensuring equitable access to early and K-12 education. To drive change in this area, C@R works closely with stakeholders to discuss reform strategies and advance policies to improve the quality of and access to education. C@R highlighted key issues, including pandemic learning loss during COVID-19, tracked how ESSER dollars are spent on our children, and released our Annual School Rankings to highlight the quality of Texas Schools. C@R also highlighted research on child care deserts in Texas and worked to increase access to and improve the quality of the subsidized child care system, and to ensure equity for both children and the child care workforce.
$3,041,121 spentof which $516,625 as grants$664,971 earned by the program86% of program spendingC@R established the Center to End the Trafficking and Exploitation of Children (CETEC) in 2007 to launch a broad educational and outreach program to combat human trafficking. C@R continued to grow the Cities Empowered Against Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) Texas project and convened nonprofits, state agencies, law enforcement, and local governments in a statewide Anti-Demand Coalition to share knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned. C@R also conducted critical research on opportunity youth (youth ages 16-24 who are neither in school nor in the workforce), highlighting policies that can put these young people on a path to success and prevent exploitation.
$80,672 spent2% of program spendingC@R established the Center for Parenting and Family Well-Being (CPFWB) in 2011. In its first phase, CPFWB conducted an inventory of the current network of parenting services in Houston and found a strong need for evidence-based, non-punitive parent education. Through a partnership including organizations that provide parent education services, pediatricians, academics, and public health practitioners, CPFWB determined that the community should move forward with developing a structure to implement the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P). During its second phase, the CPFWB is creating an infrastructure to disseminate Triple P across Harris County.
$10,002 spent0% of program spendingThrough its unique Food in Schools Initiative, C@R continues to raise awareness and advocate for the implementation of Universal School Breakfast (UFSB) and other school meal programs in schools with high poverty levels. Our annual School Food rankings highlight top-performing districts with school food programs and highlight innovations and best practices adopted by top districts. Through our Childhood Immunization Project, C@R also collaborated with key partners to help maintain current code that establishes immunization requirements for Texas elementary and secondary schools and ensure equitable access to childhood immunizations.
$3,261 spent0% of program spendingOther programs were juvenile justice and mental health related.
$399,868 spent11% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,534,924.
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 $2.2M to $3.8M (+76%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 7% · 2020 24% · 2021 15% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Children At Risk’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Dr Robert Sanborn
President and CEO
Board chair
Donald Bowers
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.0M.
21 of 121 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 Children At Risk’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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
Children At Risk has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
44% 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 Risk.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 37% · 2019 49% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 17% · 2023 21% — 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
45% of Children At Risk's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
54% of Children At Risk's grant income 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 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
Children At Risk's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 49 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Children At Risk
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 Children At Risk: 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 Children At Risk?
- Children At Risk (Texas) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,727,040 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($2,653,709). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Children At Risk have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $13,727,040 in grants to Children At Risk, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Children At Risk?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,653,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children At Risk 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 121 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