Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,942 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE CHAPTER OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ($351,403). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $531k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $450k
- Net assets
- $363k
What Children's Advocacy Center of the First Judicial District Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the organization shall be to combat child abuse by coordinating services to children and their families in crisis and providing community education focused on prevention and early intervention.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Combat child abuse by coordinating services to children and their non-offending families in crisis.
$393,157 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $393,157.
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 $223k to $320k (+44%).
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 76% · 2019 87% · 2020 89% · 2021 79% · 2022 80% · 2023 88% · 2024 92% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Samantha Prater
Executive director
Board chair
Taylor Hamilton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $63k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT 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 THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 40% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT 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'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC?
- CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,942 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE CHAPTER OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ($351,403). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $449,942 in grants to CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC?
- TENNESSEE CHAPTER OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY is the largest funder on record, with $351,403 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 5 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