Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Children's Environmental Health Network
Children's Environmental Health Network (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,638,422 to it, the largest being National Center for Healthy Housing Inc ($1,545,430). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $491k
What Children's Environmental Health Network does
Mission
The Childrens Environmental Health Network is a national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the developing child from environmental hazards and promote a healthier environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Supporting the use and translation of peer-reviewed science. Promote the development of sound public health and child-focused national policy. Program support for CEHN to encourage and promote protective policies that consider the vulnerabilities that children can have to environmental hazards. Policy analysis, public comments, testimonies, education efforts directed to key partner organizations and decision-makers.
$225,476 spent26% of program spendingElevate public awareness of environmental hazards to children. General support of CEHN's overall mission to promote safe and healthy environments for children. Activities include development of educational resources and activities to build general awareness around CEHN's mission. Through the use of peer-reviewed science, CEHN's work elevates public awareness of environmental hazards to children. Efforts also include staff preparation and delivery of trainings for a wide variety of stakeholders, presentations at conferences and workshops, and participation in partner coalitions and advisory boards.
$218,973 spent$11,000 earned by the program25% of program spendingEducate health professionals, child care professionals, and decision-makers regarding preventative strategies for effectively reducing and / or eliminating key environmental hazards that impact the health and well-being of children. Training new influential advocates in the field to promote CEHN's mission and goals. Work included the preparation and dissemination of environmental health training materials for health care professionals.
$362,738 spentof which $10,000 as grants$15,533 earned by the program42% of program spendingOther program related activities including public outreach policy research and marketing.
$53,831 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $861,018.
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 2019 to 2020, from $216k to $415k (+92%).
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 10% · 2018 0% · 2019 30% · 2020 15% · 2021 32% · 2022 9% · 2023 23% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Children's Environmental Health Network’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon MPH
Executive Director
Board chair
James Roberts MD MPH
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $768k → $1.2M.
11 of 29 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 Environmental Health Network’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 Environmental Health Network has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
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 Environmental Health Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 61% · 2019 55% · 2020 41% · 2021 50% · 2022 32% · 2023 59% — broadly stable.
“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
57% of Children's Environmental Health Network's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 Environmental Health Network draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $434k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 Environmental Health Network runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Children's Environmental Health Network receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $61k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$36k
- Environmental Protection Agency$25k
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.
Organizations like Children's Environmental Health Network
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 Washington, D.C.
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
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Children's Environmental Health Network: 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 Environmental Health Network?
- Children's Environmental Health Network (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,638,422 to it, the largest being National Center for Healthy Housing Inc ($1,545,430). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Children's Environmental Health Network have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $5,638,422 in grants to Children's Environmental Health Network, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Children's Environmental Health Network?
- National Center for Healthy Housing Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,545,430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children's Environmental Health Network find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 29 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