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CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC

CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,434 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($193,915). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.7M
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$484k
Grants received
$0
Net assets
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($4.6M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 105 ($4.8M) Expenses 104 ($4.8M) Net assets 105 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 114 ($5.3M) Expenses 110 ($5.0M) Net assets 125 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 110 ($5.1M) Expenses 115 ($5.3M) Net assets 110 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 117 ($5.4M) Expenses 121 ($5.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 146 ($6.7M) Expenses 132 ($6.0M) Net assets 0 ($0)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (146)Expenses (132)Net assets (0)

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 85% · 2020 85% · 2021 84% · 2022 84% · 2023 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
19
$58k
20
$263k
21
$191k
22
$125k
23
$702k
24
1.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $21k → $207k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)26% 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 HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS 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 HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC.

40%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 79% · 2019 46% · 2020 46% · 2021 52% · 2022 58% · 2023 70%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

75% of CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

64% of CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

IA
OH
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
19
20
21
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23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS 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 HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC?
CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,434 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($193,915). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $484,434 in grants to CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC?
OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $193,915 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing