Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S TRUST INC
CHILDREN'S TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,447,603 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($523,395). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $706k
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Children's Trust Inc does
Mission
To partner with organizations and communities to drive systemic change that impacts the root causes of child abuse and neglect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy families massachusetts (hfm):healthy families is a nationally accredited evidence-based statewide newborn home visiting program for first-time parents ages 23 and under. The evaluation component of the hfm program, conducted by tufts university, is funded, in part, by children's trust. A rigorous randomized control trial (rct) conducted by tufts shows that the program is lowering parents' risky behaviors, children's exposure to traumatic events, and second reports of child abuse and neglect. The program also lowers participant's parenting stress and shows better health outcomes for the most vulnerable parents and babies. Hfm also significantly increases educational achievement among participants and promotes co-parenting relationships that actively involve fathers. Parents enrolled in the hfm program have access to stronger connections to other first-time parents and community resources.during fiscal year 2025, healthy families massachusetts programs completed plan do study act cycles (pdsas) to test new program strategies to increase performance across four children's trust program performance measures. Notable areas of improvement include: -hfm participants receive…
$53,906 spent$42,758 earned by the program19% of program spendingCsap:the children's trust of massachusetts leads the child sexual abuse prevention (csap) program to empower communities, youth-serving organizations, and schools with evidence-based, adult-focused strategies. This program: (I) builds local coalitions dedicated to protecting children and preventing abuse; (ii) recruits, trains, and certifies volunteers to deliver free, accessible prevention education for parents, students, and professionals; and (iii) strengthens protections for children by enhancing employee screening practices, creating clear codes of conduct, designing safer physical spaces, addressing and reporting concerning behaviors, and providing staff and volunteer training to prevent abuse by adults and between children. These efforts aim to ensure that every child in massachusetts can grow up safe and supported.in fy25, the children's trust of massachusetts' child sexual abuse prevention (csap) programtrained 1,063 attendees, equipping them with the skills to protect children and prevent abuse. Our online resources reached 115,094 total users, 27,573 of them in massachusetts, generating over 6,000 resource downloads. We expanded our prevention network by training 23 new…
$67,653 spent$42,758 earned by the program24% of program spendingFamily support training:ffamily support providers throughout massachusetts rely on the 'family support training institute" to enhance their skills and to broaden their base of knowledge. Children's trust, inc, helps to fund a variety of training opportunities with access to the latest research, curricula and other materials to help the family support workforce stay on the cutting edge of the field. Training opportunities, funded in part by the children's trust, inc, include the following program:strengthening families' protective factors framework: this is an evidence-based approach that identifies five protective factors that when present, and robust in the lives of families, help prevent child abuse and neglect plus promote the healthy growth and development of children.the children's trust training institute, bringing the family support training center and the home visiting and reflective practice training programs under one umbrella entity, was formed in january 2025. This will allow for common training evaluations, trainer development, and training logistics, as well as creating the infrastructure to expand training capacity. Training is a key pillar in the children's trust…
$162,336 spent$42,759 earned by the program57% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $283,895.
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 $2.7M to $3.5M (+26%).
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.
51% of CHILDREN'S TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jennifer Valenzuela
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $145k → $305k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 35% · 2019 28% · 2020 29% · 2021 34% · 2022 27% · 2023 33% — 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
31% of CHILDREN'S TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
62% of CHILDREN'S TRUST INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $847k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 TRUST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CHILDREN'S TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $199k on record.
- MA$190k
- FL$6k
- NJ$3k
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 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S TRUST 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 TRUST INC?
- CHILDREN'S TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,447,603 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($523,395). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,447,603 in grants to CHILDREN'S TRUST INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S TRUST INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $523,395 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 42 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