Washington · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE
CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,041,245 to it, the largest being CASEY FAMILY PROGRAMS ($808,720). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Children's Trust Fund Alliance does
Mission
To ensure all states have a strong and effective children's trust or prevention fund capable of leading and investing in strategies, policies and best practices that prevent child abuse and neglect before it occurs. To initiate and engage in national efforts that help state children's trust and prevention funds in strengthening families to prevent child abuse and neglect. To promote and support a system of services, laws, practices and attitudes that supports families by enabling them to provide their children with safe, healthy and nurturing childhoods.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Bringing the protective factors framework to life in your work, a resource for action: the alliance hosted a self-paced free of charge online training to support implementation of the strengthening families protective factors framework. This curriculum was available at any time to users and included materials on partnering with parents and promising strategies for practitioners to use to help families build protective factors. The curriculum consists of seven courses, each designed to be about two hours in length. This resource is for anyone who works with children and families, including parents, practitioners, and supervisors. Ceus are available for a small fee for those who want them. In addition, the alliance offered a program that is built around a four-day virtual training for trainers (or a three-day in person training) that includes a trainer's manual, handouts and presentation materials (training videos, audio, handouts and powerpoint slides) for each course. This was successfully implemented in multiple trainings of trainers. Participants became certified to use all the alliance's curriculum and resource materials and to join the activities of the national network of…
$685,605 spent$857,209 earned by the program36% of program spendingBuilding the capacity of state children's trust funds (ctfs): the alliance provided training and technical assistance to state ctfs and their numerous other systems partners, including virtual trainings, technical assistance, opportunities for peer consulting and, in recognition of the new virtual environment, weekly meetings for trust fund leaders to come together to discuss strategies for continuing to support families and communities in these challenging situations. These coordinated strategies have produced systemic changes that bring together the efforts of multiple systems with the child abuse prevention field so that families are strengthened and child abuse is prevented. A list of all ctfs is provided on the alliance website at www.ctfalliance.org
$548,641 spent$565,472 earned by the program29% of program spendingEnsuring a strong parent voice: to ensure a strong voice representing the perspective of parents, the alliance works closely with its alliance national parent partnership council (anppc). The anppc members serve as partners with the alliance professional team in almost all aspects of the alliance's mission-driven work. Their partnership provides the alliance with important access to diverse perspectives of parents and enriches the work of the alliance and it's key organizational partners. The alliance supported its birth parent national network and the birth and foster parent partnership, as well as the birth parent advisory committee (internal advisors to casey family programs) to promote the voices of birth parents in promoting prevention strategies and child welfare system reform, particularly redefining child well-being to include community-based family strengthening and child abuse prevention. The alliance has been pleased to work with other non-profits, public systems, and foundations to help ensure and support meaningful partnerships with diverse groups of parents who are willing to share their wisdom and life experiences. The alliance works with more than 1,000 individuals…
$345,878 spent$396,700 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe alliance worked in partnership with evident change and social current to develop and manage a federally funded quality improvement center for helplines and hotlines (qic-h2). The qic-h2 includes research related to two primary areas: what are the distinguishable differences between child neglect and lack of resources in a family and what are the indicators of quality in helplines and hotlines. This work engages parents with lived experience, child welfare hotline staff and administrators, helpline staff and mandated reporters, as well as experts in the field on these two topics. A primary goal is to support mandated reporters, community helpline staff, cps hotline staff, and other community partners to make more effective decisions, and to create an information hub for best practices and operations for community-based helplines to function as supportive resources for families whose needs do not require child protection intervention.
$329,878 spent$311,301 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,910,002.
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 2019 to 2020, from $723k to $1.2M (+66%).
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 40% · 2018 41% · 2019 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Teresa Rafael
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $182k → $30k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 TRUST FUND ALLIANCE’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 TRUST FUND ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 78% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 55% · 2022 94% · 2023 82% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 TRUST FUND ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$2k
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 TRUST FUND ALLIANCE
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 Washington
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
52%
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 TRUST FUND ALLIANCE?
- CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,041,245 to it, the largest being CASEY FAMILY PROGRAMS ($808,720). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,041,245 in grants to CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE?
- CASEY FAMILY PROGRAMS is the largest funder on record, with $808,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 6 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