South Carolina · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC
CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,063,874 to it, the largest being MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC ($650,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Children's Attention Home Inc does
Mission
The children's attention home provides nurturing care and life-changing services for youth and families in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care - the children's attention home provides residential care and developmental services to the abused and neglected children that enter its care. Residential care is critical to meeting the children's emergency and basic needs including food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare. Developmental services focuses on the individual needs of each child including social development, educational support, cultural enrichment, independent living skills, and workforce preparedness. These two service areas work together to ensure that each child's needs are being met while giving them the support they need to heal, grow, and thrive.
$1,733,555 spent$1,034,278 earned by the program87% of program spendingCrossroads - the children's attention home provides residential care and developmental services to the homeless children that enter its care. Residential care is critical to meeting the children's emergency and basic needs including food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare. Developmental services focuses on the individual needs of each child including social development, educational support, cultural enrichment, independent living skills, and workforce preparedness. These two service areas work together to ensure that each child's needs are being met while giving them the support they need to heal, grow, and thrive.
$172,531 spent9% of program spendingDay services - this program at the children's attention home bridges the gap for youth in foster care without long-term placement. Due to a shortage of foster homes, many youth are spending days and nights in social service offices. Instead, this daytime program ensures children receive basic needs, support services, and the individualized attention they deserve while waiting for a home.
$83,808 spent$165,674 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,989,894.
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 $8.2M to $11M (+33%).
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 3% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 10% · 2023 31% · 2024 10% · 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. 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.
Board chair
Adam Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $128k → $256k.
16 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 ATTENTION HOME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 ATTENTION HOME INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 ATTENTION HOME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 41% · 2019 32% · 2020 22% · 2021 23% · 2022 65% · 2023 20% — 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
39% of CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 ATTENTION HOME 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME 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 ATTENTION HOME INC?
- CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,063,874 to it, the largest being MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC ($650,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,063,874 in grants to CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC?
- MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 55 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