New York · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC (New York) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,908,133 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,400,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Children's Rights Inc does
Mission
Children's rights is a national advocacy organization that investigates, exposes, and combats violations of the rights of children. Through strategic advocacy and civil rights impact litigation, children's rights holds governments accountable for keeping children safe, healthy, and free from discrimination. Since its founding in 1995, children's rights has achieved lasting, systemic change for hundreds of thousands of children throughout the country across over 20 states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Immigrant children's rights: along with co-counsel partners we defeated the federal government's attempt to terminate the flores settlement, which has for decades preserved essential protections for immigrant children in u.s. Custody. Our advocacy has led to significant media coverage, legislative scrutiny, and public outcry over the harmful detention of hundreds of immigrant children by the government.child mental health: we secured three major class action lawsuit settlement agreements in new york, iowa, and alabama representing over 35,000 youth, ensuring (continute on schedule o)that children with mental health needs can be cared for at home and in their communities not institutions.family preservation: we advanced family-first policy solutions in new york state, including a bill to eliminate penalties for mandated reporters so professionals can prioritize care over fear. We filed four amicus briefs urging courts to uphold children's constitutional right to family integrity and protect families from unnecessary government intrusion. We submitted a report to the u.n., putting international pressure on the u.s. To address the harms its child welfare system inflicts on children…
$6,406,440 spent$1,897,965 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,406,440.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.5M to $12M (+232%).
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 12% · 2021 4% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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
Sandy Santana
Pres./exec.dir.
Board chair
Lewis Tepper
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $404k → $2.6M.
24 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 RIGHTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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 RIGHTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
55% 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 RIGHTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 21% · 2019 18% · 2020 36% · 2021 31% · 2022 37% · 2023 23% — 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
52% of CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
50% of CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC'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 $7.4M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 RIGHTS INC's revenue grew 110% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.2M on record.
- NJ$3.8M
- CT$402k
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 RIGHTS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 49 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: 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 RIGHTS INC?
- CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC (New York) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,908,133 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,400,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $14,908,133 in grants to CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 90 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