Texas · Nonprofit
CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS
CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,581,616 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ($2,032,902). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas does
Mission
To foster healing for grieving youth, their families and the community through peer support programs, counseling, training, education and outreach.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
For the past 27 years, the children's bereavement center of south texas has provided compassionate, trauma-informed grief support services at no cost to children and young adults ages 3 to 24. Our goal is to ensure that no child or family grieves alone by offering specialized services tailored to the unique needs of children coping with the loss of a loved one.our grief support programs include peer-facilitated grief support groups, individual grief counseling, therapeutic grief camps, and school-based grief support services. These services create safe spaces where children and young adults can express their emotions, build resilience, and find hope alongside peers who have experienced similar losses.recognizing that financial barriers and geographic limitations often prevent families from accessing critical mental health services, we are committed to ensuring equitable access to professional grief support services. Families who may not have the means to pay for traditional counseling or who reside in underserved communities can receive support at no cost through our center-based programs or through our expanding school-based programs. By partnering with schools, we bring grief…
$3,434,669 spentof which $8,900 as grants$2,500 earned by the program100% of program spendingBoth our centers in san antonio and uvalde possesses a strong and compassionate professional team of therapists, who are supported by dedicated administrators, university interns, and community volunteers. Together, we worked tirelessly in 2024 to provide assistance to a record number of families, offering the support and care they require during these difficult times. As we move forward, we remain committed to being a reliable source of solace and healing for children facing grief, empowering them to cope with their emotions and navigate the healing process.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,434,669.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.5M to $7.8M (+73%).
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 3% · 2018 16% · 2019 8% · 2020 20% · 2021 27% · 2022 10% · 2023 24% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Frances Gonzalez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $537k → $1.4M.
18 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
70% 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 CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 44% · 2019 52% · 2020 34% · 2021 26% · 2022 11% · 2023 25% — 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
29% of CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
94% of CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: 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 CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS?
- CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,581,616 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ($2,032,902). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $10,581,616 in grants to CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS?
- SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,032,902 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS 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.
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 86 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