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CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA

CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,382,799 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SPORTS DEVELOPMENT ($450,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$101k
9/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty USA does

Mission

Child usa seeks to end child abuse and neglect through evidence-based research resulting in enlightened law and public policy.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Child usa conducts research, compiles evidence, promotes ideas, and proposes the most effective policies to prevent childhood sexual abuse and neglect. Child usa draws on the combined expertise of the nation's leading medical and legal academics to reach evidence-based solutions to persistent and widespread child abuse and neglect. All child victims deserve justice, and child usa aims to find the path for them.

    $989,723 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $989,723.

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 ($178k) Expenses 100 ($255k) Net assets -3 ($-8871)2018 Revenue 209 ($372k) Expenses 148 ($377k) Net assets -4 ($-14199)2019 Revenue 559 ($995k) Expenses 245 ($626k) Net assets 100 ($355k)2020 Revenue 450 ($800k) Expenses 364 ($931k) Net assets 63 ($224k)2021 Revenue 757 ($1.3M) Expenses 540 ($1.4M) Net assets 54 ($191k)2022 Revenue 785 ($1.4M) Expenses 590 ($1.5M) Net assets 23 ($80k)2023 Revenue 996 ($1.8M) Expenses 547 ($1.4M) Net assets 130 ($459k)2024 Revenue 721 ($1.3M) Expenses 642 ($1.6M) Net assets 28 ($101k)
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Revenue (721)Expenses (642)Net assets (28)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 2018 to 2019, from $2k to $402k (+22861%).

$3k
$2k
$402k
$279k
$242k
$250k
$583k
$249k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2023 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$77k
’17
−$5k
’18
$369k
’19
−$130k
’20
−$32k
’21
−$109k
’22
$376k
’23
−$358k
’24
0.4
months of
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

Marci Hamilton Esq

CEO

Board chair

James Marsh

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed7881015151814
Joined·+2+1+5+8+0+5+1
No longer listed·1133025
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $17k → $81k.

11 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA’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 HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

66% 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 HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA.

33%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 77% · 2019 67% · 2020 44% · 2021 53% · 2022 28% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.

“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

36% of CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

59% of CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $566k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states.

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $817k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−28% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)33% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 20%Fundraising 9%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA?
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,382,799 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SPORTS DEVELOPMENT ($450,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,382,799 in grants to CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA?
FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SPORTS DEVELOPMENT is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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