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CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC

CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,000 to it, the largest being Mountain States Health Alliance ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$75k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$133k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Children Exceeding Expectations Inc does

Mission

To provide a safe and nurturing environment for pediatric oncology and hematology patients to grow socially, cognitively and physically through theraplay and to raise awareness of childhood cancer and immune deficiency disorders.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide a safe and nurturing environment for pediatric oncology and hematology patients to grow socially, cognitively and physically through theraplay.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($119k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($101k)2024 Revenue 121 ($144k) Expenses 729 ($132k) Net assets 112 ($112k)2025 Revenue 63 ($75k) Expenses 299 ($54k) Net assets 132 ($133k)
202320242025
Revenue (63)Expenses (299)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

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 $112k to $133k (+18%).

$101k
$112k
$133k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$101k
’23
$12k
’24
$21k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
$12k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS 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 EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC.

74%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS 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 CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC?
CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,000 to it, the largest being Mountain States Health Alliance ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $47,000 in grants to CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC?
Mountain States Health Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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