Alabama · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC
CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC (Alabama) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,479,254 to it, the largest being BENJAMIN & ROBERTA RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ($901,000). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Children's Harbor Inc does
Mission
Children's harbor provides refuge, respite and resources to families with children who have experienced a life-altering medical diagnosis. The families and caregivers we serve seek a safe refuge when faced with unexpected life circumstances. Our comprehensive services complement medical treatment through thoughtful efforts which anticipate needs, focus on mental and social well-being, and offer a built-in support system familiar with each family's unique situation.we serve our families across two campuses with distinct purposes. The family center at the children's hospital, "the harbor", meets the families where they are by providing care services to inpatient and outpatient children, caregivers, and siblings. The lake martin campus offers families the opportunity to step away from the stressors of the hospital environment for a sense of normalcy through partner camps and programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our lake martin campus provides a 66-acre camp experience for families to connect with other families experiencing the same challenges and to relieve stress through fun and relaxing activities and programming. The campus features extensive water frontage, zero-entry swimming pools, basketball and volleyball courts, canoeing, a handicapped-accessible tree house, miniature golf, and activity rooms. The facilities are donated at no-cost to organizations whose mission is to serve chronically ill or disabled children. In 2025, we partnered with 25 organizations to serve more than 4,500 children and their family members through 46 camp experiences.
$2,857,145 spent$664,254 earned by the program59% of program spendingAt our birmingham family center, we help families cope with and adapt to a new diagnosis through illness-specific counseling, financial aid, education and career training, and in-hospital respite services to rest and recharge. The center averages 38,000 visitors annually.
$1,960,867 spent41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,818,012.
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 2024 to 2025, from $23M to $29M (+26%).
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 10% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Cathryn A Outzen
CEO
Board chair
Jeff Stone
Chairman
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 30 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $628k → $1.3M.
16 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $830k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Harbor Endowment Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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 HARBOR INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 HARBOR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 19% · 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2021 23% · 2022 15% · 2023 21% — 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
66% of CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
96% of CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 HARBOR INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN'S HARBOR 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Children's Harbor Endowment Fund · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC?
- CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC (Alabama) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,479,254 to it, the largest being BENJAMIN & ROBERTA RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ($901,000). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $7,479,254 in grants to CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC?
- BENJAMIN & ROBERTA RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $901,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 86 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