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CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC

CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,707,378 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION ($2,083,198). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$1.6M
18/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Children's Law Center Inc does

Mission

To promote the best possible outcomes for children and families in transition or crises by providing access to legal services and support they could not otherwise afford and by advancing collaborative, non-adversarial options for resolving conflicts outside the court system.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operate to meet the needs of vulnerable children for high quality committed legal representation through an attorney / case worker team approach.

    $1,159,022 spent$509,346 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,159,022.

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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 103 ($1.1M) Expenses 104 ($1.1M) Net assets 93 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 104 ($1.1M) Expenses 103 ($1.1M) Net assets 98 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 104 ($1.1M) Expenses 94 ($1.0M) Net assets 114 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 114 ($1.2M) Expenses 107 ($1.1M) Net assets 122 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 129 ($1.4M) Expenses 113 ($1.2M) Net assets 123 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 138 ($1.5M) Expenses 125 ($1.3M) Net assets 140 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 138 ($1.5M) Expenses 134 ($1.4M) Net assets 130 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 152 ($1.6M) Expenses 143 ($1.5M) Net assets 147 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (152)Expenses (143)Net assets (147)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $1.6M (+36%).

$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.1M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 29% · 2018 26% · 2019 28% · 2020 36% · 2021 36% · 2022 43% · 2023 31% · 2024 24% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
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−$20k
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−$8k
’19
$103k
’20
$72k
’21
$158k
’22
$122k
’23
$21k
’24
$82k
’25
4.5
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

Justine Rakich-Kelly

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+3+0+2+1+1+2+0+3
No longer listed·35103002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income fell $322k → $306k.

8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 LAW CENTER INC’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 LAW CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 LAW CENTER INC.

77%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 77% · 2019 77% · 2020 74% · 2021 84% · 2022 80% · 2023 81% — 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

44% of CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $350k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 LAW CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record.

State$3.7M
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Top programs
  • Contract Attorneys$2.3M
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$1.2M
  • Arbitration/Mediation Services$190k
  • Attorney Fees$4k
  • Medical Supplies$400

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 10%Fundraising 14%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Rebuilding Families LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC?
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,707,378 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION ($2,083,198). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,707,378 in grants to CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC?
CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,083,198 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 24 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