Texas · Nonprofit
Children's Optimal Health
Children's Optimal Health (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,500 to it, the largest being ASCENSION SETON ($157,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $-123152
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $248k
- Net assets
- $0
What Children's Optimal Health does
Mission
Children's Optimal Health provides a vehicle through which other organizations in the Austin Area may collaborate to share information to identify areas of need to improve the lives of children through policy change, community action, operations change and research in the public.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Through a commitment to shared data, collaboration, and on-going communication, Children's Optimal Health (COH) uses visual images (GIS mapping) and analysis to inform policy, improve operations, promote research, and mobilize the community to better the lives of our children and youth. During 2022, the time-series analysis of school district data to facilitate targeting of student and family supports continued. It was augmented by work with United Way for Greater Austin to analyze 211 needs data as part of our community response to the COVID pandemic. Interactive maps for the 5 county Metro Statistical Area were completed and publicly shared. A federal grant addressing substance use prevention, for which COH was a subcontractor, was successfully completed with development of training resources for those working with autonomous, but not independent, youth provided. Efforts to evolve a Community Information Exchange for central Texas were furthered in partnership with others. Significant research was conducted with grant funding to identify issues of digital access and equity for vulnerable populations, particularly during the pandemic. Findings and insights will be used to address…
$90,153 spent$33,855 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $90,153.
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 2021 to 2022, from $221k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2018 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Susan Millea
Interim Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $105k → $53k.
From the IRS filings of Children's Optimal Health’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 Optimal Health leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Optimal Health.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
Children's Optimal Health draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Optimal Health
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Children's Optimal Health: 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 Optimal Health?
- Children's Optimal Health (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,500 to it, the largest being ASCENSION SETON ($157,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Children's Optimal Health have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $247,500 in grants to Children's Optimal Health, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Children's Optimal Health?
- ASCENSION SETON is the largest funder on record, with $157,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children's Optimal Health find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 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