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CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $599,526 to it, the largest being BUDD ORPHANS' HOME TUA ($212,154). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $600k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Children's Aid Society of Mercer County does
Mission
To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family focus: the services provided by the family focus program are interactive, relationship based and designed to help parents care for their children and adolescents with mental health problems in the home. Services include self-regulation, echo systemic therapy and 24/7 availability of the family focus team and crisis mitigation. The goals during the 32-week course of the intensive therapy are to support families, foster independence, promote family skills, and to prevent hospitalization or other out of the home placement. These services are designed to offer a rapid response to the needs of the family. During the 2025 calendar year, the family focus program staff of four, and part of the year, five provided therapy to 197 identified clients. At the close of the authorized service period, % of the clients showed improvement in their score on the child and adolescent functional assessment scale.
$286,513 spent$282,545 earned by the program17% of program spendingAdoption and permanency: the services of the adoption and permanency department focus on locating a foreverhome for referred children and families to understand the effects of trauma and give them the tools necessary to support the child. The first service offered by the program is writing a child profile, which entails creating a detailed report on a child's history. The next available service is child preparation, which includes the creation of a lifebook (scrapbook) and sessions to help them prepare for the next transition they will undergo, whether it be returning to the birth family, moving to a group home or an adoptive home or aging out of the system and living independently. Child specific recruitment is the process we use to match a child with a prospective forever family or with a connection from their past that the child or youth can use as a support system. For those clients aging out of the system, our mentoring service matches them with a volunteer mentor that will be support to them as they begin living as an independent adult. We also support families who are adopting a child. We complete home studies and family profiles that assist in being matching with a…
$742,891 spent$978,195 earned by the program45% of program spendingDay care: it is the goal of the day care program to provide an environment that the children will enjoy while learning skills, making new friends, and preparing for school. Structured learning activities are built into the daily routine so that the staff can focus on the age-appropriate development of sensory awareness, gross motor, fine motor communication, listening and cognitive skills as well as aiding in the development of self- control, self-esteem and independence. Coordination of age- appropriate activities are implemented during summer to encourage those of school age to retain and build on existing skills and activities in both indoor and outdoor settings. The seven day care staff provided care to 55 infants, toddlers and pre-school and school age children in 2025. At the conclusion of service, an end of service questionnaire is provided to parents. The results of this survey indicated that 100% of parents would recommend this service to family and friends and they would use the services again if needed. In 2025, children's aid society day care (jump start) was awarded once again a star**** in the keystone stars program. This program uses a rating scale of 1 to 4 to rate…
$336,175 spent$292,860 earned by the program20% of program spendingFoster care: the foster care program serves youth in counties throughout western pennsylvania. Services include but are not limited to recruitment, training, certification, placement, case management, and supervision. This program has regular collaboration with the statewide adoption and permanency network, swan affiliate agencies, pa department of human services and county agencies throughout pa. In 2025, one foster care staff member provided services to 52 children and families. Christmas family referral coordinated a program to provide christmas gifts and food to 929 mercer county families in need during the holiday season.
$284,057 spent$344,689 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,649,636.
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.
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 $1.2M to $1.7M (+38%).
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: 2020 6% · 2024 15% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Heather Alt
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $206k → $102k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY’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 AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 62% · 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 75% · 2022 90% · 2023 49% — 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
67% of CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
61% of CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY?
- CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $599,526 to it, the largest being BUDD ORPHANS' HOME TUA ($212,154). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $599,526 in grants to CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY?
- BUDD ORPHANS' HOME TUA is the largest funder on record, with $212,154 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 9 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