Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,553,566 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc ($2,540,308). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk County Inc does
Mission
To unite public, private and community partners to ensure safety, healing and justice for children and families impacted by violence, exploitation and abuse.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The children's advocacy center of suffolk county unites public, private and community partners to promote safety, healing and justice for children exposed to violence and their families. Each year in suffolk county, more than 1,600 young victims of sexual abuse, physical abuse and commercial sexual exploitation are referred to the cac for support and assistance. The only program of its kind in suffolk county, the cac coordinates the efforts of child protection, law enforcement, prosecutors, advocates, medical experts and trauma clinicians under one roof to provide high quality, specialized services for abused children and their families. The cac's child-friendly, trauma-informed program is based in boston, co-located with partner agencies. The cac is a fully accredited member of the national children's alliance.the cac's team of compassionate experts works together with partners to focus on what matters most: safety and healing.multi-disciplinary teams:the multi-disciplinary team ("mdt") is the heart of the cac's response to allegations of child abuse. The goal of the mdt is to quickly respond to concerns of child abuse and to determine the best response for the child and…
$1,404,185 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,404,185.
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 $3.7M to $5.3M (+45%).
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 71% · 2018 69% · 2019 66% · 2020 41% · 2021 63% · 2022 59% · 2023 57% · 2024 52% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% 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.
Chief executive
Annie Marcklinger
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Fish
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $205k → $967k.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 SUFFOLK COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 28% · 2019 59% · 2020 47% · 2021 35% · 2022 30% · 2023 54% — 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
55% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $618k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 SUFFOLK COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC?
- CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,553,566 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc ($2,540,308). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,553,566 in grants to CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC?
- Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,540,308 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 37 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