Maryland · Nonprofit
CHILDREN IN NEED INC
CHILDREN IN NEED INC (Maryland) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $697,198 to it, the largest being ALICE V & DAVID W FLETCHER FOUNDATION INC ($155,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $448k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $697k
- Net assets
- $559k
What Children in Need Inc does
Mission
To provide each washington county, md child living at or below the federally recognized poverty level essential items and educational supplies to ensure their success in school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On behalf of their children, clients are eligible to visit the center once a month (all year round) to receive gently used clothing (approximately 3 outfits per child), shoes, coats, hats and gloves, new underclothes, hygiene items, books, and school supplies.
$314,620 spent91% of program spendingIn august, cin gives a voucher to eligible school age children so they can participate in a controlled shopping day. Children are able to purchase a new outfit, shoes, book bag, undergarments, etc. To start a new school year. To qualify for the voucher, parents or guardians of these children must have visited the center five (5) times during the previous school year (september 1 through may 31).
$28,043 spent8% of program spendingIn the fall, there is an opportunity for each child enrolled in the cin program to receive a pair of new shoes at the annual new shoe give-away. The child must be present at the event to receive shoes. The center gives away gently used shoes throughout the year.
$3,491 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $346,154.
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 2022 to 2023, from $360k to $473k (+31%).
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 28% · 2021 29% · 2022 25% · 2023 22% · 2024 24% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CHILDREN IN NEED INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Brittany Wedd
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 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 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $55k → $109k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 IN NEED 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 IN NEED INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 38% · 2019 40% · 2020 26% · 2021 21% · 2022 21% · 2023 23% — 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
54% of CHILDREN IN NEED 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
80% of CHILDREN IN NEED INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 IN NEED INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN IN NEED 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN IN NEED 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 IN NEED INC?
- CHILDREN IN NEED INC (Maryland) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $697,198 to it, the largest being ALICE V & DAVID W FLETCHER FOUNDATION INC ($155,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN IN NEED INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $697,198 in grants to CHILDREN IN NEED INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN IN NEED INC?
- ALICE V & DAVID W FLETCHER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN IN NEED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 24 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