Missouri · Nonprofit
Children International
Children International (Missouri) receives grants from 215 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,584,276 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,623,138). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 215
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $140M
What Children International does
Mission
We connect people around the world in the fight to end poverty. Working together, we invest in the lives of children and youth, build the healthy environments they need to thrive, and empower them to create lasting change in their own lives and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community centers & caring adults Children International provides its most comprehensive programs within its community centers. Newer, state-of-the-art, facilities have specific youth rooms and areas, which are separate from the gathering spaces for younger children, to encourage participation and enhance youth activities. While buildings are important, they aren't what make Children International's programs a success; it's the people who invest in the children and youth who make the difference. Critical support and organizational strengthening efforts volunteers. Globally, nearly 4,000 individuals volunteer in support of Children International. These trained volunteers - typically the parents of sponsored children and youth - conduct family visits in surrounding neighborhoods, are often the first to learn about local and domestic issues, and serve as an invaluable conduit of information and knowledge. In the past, volunteers have supported Children International during natural disasters, unrest, and other disruptions. These individuals also support programs that teach children and youth to organize projects and develop leadership skills. Then, these dedicated adults encourage…
$6,058,756 spentof which $2,484,597 as grants60% of program spendingChildren International creates personal, transformative and impactful relationships and offers supporters a way to invest in the holistic development of a child with the ultimate focus on employability to help its graduates break the generational cycle of poverty. This is done primarily through locally staffed community centers and volunteers. Children International has set forth a vision of bringing people together to end poverty for good. Its aim is to create a world without poverty where every child, family and community is connected, productive and thriving. The organization connects people all over the world, facilitating strong relationships and partnerships across socioeconomic and cultural boundaries. Children International believes everyone shares this basic human right: to live free from poverty for good. Its approach to delivering hope and a strategic pathway to break the cycle of generational poverty focuses on four specific core areas: health services, educational assistance, life skills and employability. Through its programs, the organization strategically provides the services, training and opportunities children and youth need to become sustainably employed…
$4,039,171 spentof which $2,692,036 as grants40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,097,927.
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 $115M to $144M (+25%).
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.
96% of Children International’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% 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
Susana Eshleman
Director/president and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 50 funders to 92 funders, grant income rose $574k → $2.6M.
42 of 215 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 International’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 215 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 International 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
68% 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 International.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 32% · 2019 24% · 2020 18% · 2021 22% · 2022 16% · 2023 18% — 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
47% of Children International's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
63% of Children International'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 $6.8M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 31 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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 International runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Children International receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $225k on record.
- Agency for International Development$225k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Children International
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 51 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Children Intl Chapters of America · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Children International: 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 International?
- Children International (Missouri) receives grants from 215 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,584,276 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,623,138). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Children International have?
- IRS filings report 215 organizations giving $18,584,276 in grants to Children International, 126 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Children International?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,623,138 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children International find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 215 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