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CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,698,662 to it, the largest being BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC ($4,464,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Children's Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida Inc does
Mission
Since 1981, children's advocacy center of southwest florida, inc. (cac) has advocated for a healthy, safe community for children through a multidisciplinary team approach to child abuse and neglect. Our mission is to create a safe and nuturing space for children affected by abuse and neglect, where they share their stories, heal, and thrive, with comprehensive support. The children's advocacy center of southwest florida offers abuse determination services, trauma-informed therapeutic counseling, advocacy, parenting education, prevention programs, pet therapy, and community outreach and education in lee county. Abuse determination, therapeutic counseling, and advocacy services are also provided in charlotte, hendry, and glades counties. Cac is the only children's advocacy center in the four-county area. Cac is accredited by national children's alliance, and one of the largest children's advocacy centers in the state of florida.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The child protection team (cpt) provides services to children who are suspected of having experienced or witnessed child neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse to include sexual exploitation, family violence, and/or medical neglect. Services are offered to children and families who are involved with the department of children and families and/or local and federal law enforcement agencies. Services include medical evaluations, forensic interviews, specialized interviews, family assessments, medical consultations, psychosocial assessments, psychological evaluations, and multidisciplinary staffings. The team also provides court testimony. Services are provided 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The goals of cpt are to assist agencies who investigate child abuse in determining abuse, neglect, or threat; to prevent child abuse through community outreach and public education; and provide professional training around the issues of abuse and neglect. Cpt is governed by florida statutes, and all services are free of charge.
$2,246,843 spent$1,500 earned by the program51% of program spendingFamily alliance is a child-friendly outpatient counseling program that provides therapy and psychoeducational curriculum to children who have experienced abuse and neglect, have witnessed/experienced family violence or a violent crime, are suspected of being abused or neglected, or are at- risk for abuse and neglect. Individual therapy, family therapy, group counseling, and psychoeducational services are provided for children ages 3-17. During the time a child is engaged in therapy, non-offending caregivers and siblings are offered support services. These sessions include providing families with psychoeducational services related to abuse and trauma, coping skills, safety skills, prevention skills, communication skills, and knowledge related to healthy and unhealthy relationships. The therapist provides emotional support to family members who have been affected by their loved one's abuse/trauma. Family alliance also offers therapeutic services to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. All services are free of charge.
$1,371,126 spent31% of program spendingThe parenting program is parent education for the prevention of child abuse. Our parenting classes utilize the nurturing parenting program which has over 40 years of research showing that it reduces the beliefs that are known to lead to abuse and/or neglect while increasing what is known as protective capacities. Cac utilizes various curriculum within the nurturing parenting program such as nurturing skills, nurturing fathers, and nurturing families in recovery (addiction). The parenting classes are offered in english, spanish, and creole to families involved in the dependency system as well as those in the community looking to enhance and improve their parenting roles. The class schedule offers classes six days per week to include daytime, evening, and weekend hours as needed. The parenting program is offered free of charge. The pine manor after school and summer program is a prevention program which provides a safe environment for children ages 5-12 who reside in pine manor focusing on improving literacy, mathematics, and social skills. Services provided include individualized homework assistance, after school kidzlit reading enrichment program focusing on increasing literacy…
$760,815 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,378,784.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.8M to $8.0M (+37%).
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: 2017 73% · 2018 73% · 2019 73% · 2020 74% · 2021 60% · 2022 66% · 2023 53% · 2024 54% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $421k → $717k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.2M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Florida Network of Children's Advocacy Centers Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 100% · 2019 72% · 2020 76% · 2021 80% · 2022 84% · 2023 82% — 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
50% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC'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
98% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
- CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,698,662 to it, the largest being BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC ($4,464,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $5,698,662 in grants to CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
- BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,464,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 20 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