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CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC

CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,759,576 to it, the largest being THE COPPER BEECH FOUNDATION INC ($2,085,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$35M
Funders on record
82
Grants received
$6.8M
Net assets
$19M
51/82 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Children's Aid and Family Services Inc does

Mission

Children's aid and family services mission is to empower individuals, strenghten families and support healthier communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The developmentally disabled program of children's aid & family services encompasses nineteen residential homes and day program activities which serve the needs of adults with intellectual developmental disabilities.

    $19,775,204 spentof which $270,648 as grants$22,567,613 earned by the program
    66% of program spending
  2. Addiction prevention and recovery support services - provides education programs to prevent drug and alcohol misuse; coalition building in communities to reduce alcohol and drug misuse; and provides recovery support, and connects survivors with treatment and support services.

    $5,857,062 spent$153,106 earned by the program
    19% of program spending
  3. Childrens support services - provides adoption support and information to families and foster care and treatment home services.

    $4,417,857 spent$480,595 earned by the program
    15% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,050,123.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($8.8M)2018 Revenue 86 ($12M) Expenses 114 ($14M) Net assets 76 ($6.7M)2019 Revenue 125 ($18M) Expenses 137 ($17M) Net assets 96 ($8.5M)2020 Revenue 174 ($25M) Expenses 188 ($23M) Net assets 123 ($11M)2021 Revenue 204 ($30M) Expenses 200 ($25M) Net assets 185 ($16M)2022 Revenue 192 ($28M) Expenses 213 ($26M) Net assets 183 ($16M)2023 Revenue 211 ($31M) Expenses 240 ($30M) Net assets 204 ($18M)2024 Revenue 245 ($35M) Expenses 284 ($35M) Net assets 217 ($19M)
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Revenue (245)Expenses (284)Net assets (217)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $20M to $26M (+29%).

$16M
$14M
$16M
$20M
$26M
$28M
$33M
$35M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 46% · 2018 78% · 2019 83% · 2020 88% · 2021 89% · 2022 88% · 2023 20% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

33% of CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,405 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.1M
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−$1.7M
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$1.1M
’19
$1.9M
’20
$4.7M
’21
$1.3M
’22
$782k
’23
$339k
’24
2.2
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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

Shavonda Sumter

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed2728273226262323
Joined·+7+3+6+4+6+4+3
No longer listed·64110673
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $726k → $731k.

13 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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 AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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

31%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 39% · 2019 33% · 2020 36% · 2021 23% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% — 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

51% of CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 12 states in all.

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CA
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $627k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60.7M on record — $2.9M federal, $57.9M state.

Federal$2.9M
grants $2.9Mcontracts $0
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  • Department of Health and Human Services$2.4M
  • Department of Justice$425k
State$57.9M
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Top programs
  • GRANT IN AID$52.0M
  • FEDERAL$4.8M
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$1.0M
  • DEDICATED$1k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC?
CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,759,576 to it, the largest being THE COPPER BEECH FOUNDATION INC ($2,085,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $6,759,576 in grants to CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC?
THE COPPER BEECH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,085,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 82 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