Utah · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH
CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH (Utah) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,128,522 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($660,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $886k
What Children's Service Society of Utah does
Mission
Children's service society provides services to families, individuals and the community to enhance the safety and well-being of children and their caregivers. All the services help prevent child abuse.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family support services is comprised of three programs to service the families in the salt lake and surrounding areas. These services include home visitation, grandfamilies and adoptions. The home visitation program provides intensive in-home parenting services to at-risk families. The grandfamilies program provides support and education to kinship caregivers and the children they are raising. The adoption program facilitates traditional infant adoptions and also assists with kinship adoption or children with special needs. Mental health services are provided throughout all support service programs as needed.
$2,435,653 spent$47,987 earned by the program48% of program spendingCare about childcare is a resource and referral program for parents needing childcare services. It also provides recruitment, technical assistance, training programs and quality improvement programs for childcare providers in salt lake and tooele counties.
$1,363,239 spent27% of program spendingEarly childhood comprehensive systems grant (eccsg) is a program and resource which aims to increase statewide access to integrated, effective, culturally appropriate, evidence-based early developmental health and family well-being promotion, prevention, and early intervention practices and services during the prenatal and early childhood period. The children's service socity has developed an internal group to assist and help with the application process. This is a temporary contract with utah dws.
$873,075 spent17% of program spendingBuilding blocks childcare center in taylorsville, utah was purchased by children's service society (css) in november 2021 to provide preschool and childcare for underserved families. The center has been recently remodeled to create a safe, healthy, and high-quality learning environment. At peak capacity serves up to 47 children, ages 6 month to 5 years old. The center's goal is to meet the growth, developmental, and early education needs of children, while fostering quality childcare, and promoting positive relationships in biological, adoptive, and kinship families.in partnership with united way of salt lake, low-income families are eligible for free or discounted childcare and preschool. By offering financial relief and family support through childcare, our program strives to close the achievement gap in early education. During the enrollment period, applicants will meet with center staff to determine eligibility and pricing.as children are enrolled, staff, parents, and caregivers work together as a team to provide opportunities for children to grow in an inclusive, culturally sensitive, safe, and developmentally appropriate setting. The program will aid children in developing a…
$373,931 spent$207,339 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,045,898.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $2.5M (+54%).
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: 2017 75% · 2018 72% · 2019 74% · 2020 75% · 2021 74% · 2022 73% · 2023 81% · 2024 87% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Encarni Gallardo Porras
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $119k → $118k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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 SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 70% · 2019 81% · 2020 50% · 2021 73% · 2022 48% · 2023 76% — diversifying over time.
“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
45% of CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
83% of CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH?
- CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH (Utah) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,128,522 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($660,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,128,522 in grants to CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH?
- SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $660,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 27 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