Oregon · Nonprofit
Childrens Center
Childrens Center (Oregon) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,191,704 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($804,800). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Childrens Center does
Mission
The mission of Childrens Center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Forensic evaluationsto determine and document the health and safety of a child suspected to have been abused or neglected, the center provides comprehensive medical assessments. Head-to- toe physical examinations are conducted by examiners specifically trained in diagnosing child abuse and neglect. The center also provides specialized screening for children endangered by exposure to drug use, distribution, or manufacturing. Examiners use their findings to make recommendations to law enforcement, child protective workers, and family members, all with the goal of ensuring the well-being of the child.interviews with a child suspected to have been abused or neglected are conducted by interviewers specially trained to talk to children of all ages and developmental levels. The interviews are designed to allow children to describe their experience in their own words in a neutral, child-focused, and trauma-informed setting. Interviewers work with examiners as part of the assessment team, ensuring that a complete picture of the child's abuse is properly documented. Interviews are observed and recorded. Law enforcement and social service workers have access to interview content, which plays…
$2,066,543 spent$912,799 earned by the program74% of program spendingTherapyin late 2018, the center began a therapy program. Prior to its launch, children and families would often endure long waits for a therapy appointment elsewhere. Now, after a medical assessment at the center, children and families may continue their healing process by taking part in the therapy program. The trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy(tf-cbt) model is an evidence-based treatment designed to help kids overcome the effects of a traumatic experience. According to research, tf-cbt successfully resolves many emotional and behavioral difficulties associated with traumatic experiences.the center is also a lead partner in healthy boundaries and behaviors (a program to support children with problematic sexual behaviors) which was established by the mdt to provide support, education, resources, and intervention to children eleven years and younger who demonstrate sexually inappropriate behavior. The center contacts families in these cases with a goal of addressing behaviors before they escalate to a point that necessitates juvenile justice involvement.
$430,766 spent$236,834 earned by the program15% of program spendingOutreach and preventionthe center has a strategic goal to prevent child abuse by engaging and equipping community members to recognize the signs and symptoms of abuse, empowering them to properly advocate for and protect children. Broad-based community awareness initiatives, network and partnership building, and public information and training are essential to these efforts. The work with partners in law enforcement, child welfare and child-serving-agencies, and the medical and mental health community means that the centers child abuse prevention initiatives reach every corner of clackamas county. Targeted outreach efforts to individuals from business, civic and faith-based groups only add to the number of people becoming child abuse prevention activists.because so many evaluations involve a child who has been sexually abused, the center has made this issue a high prevention priority. Utilizing darkness to light's nationally acclaimed curriculum stewards of children, the center conducts community-based trainings to improve awareness of child sexual abuse and enable adults to be responsive to the signs and symptoms of this prevalent form of child maltreatment.
$291,820 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,789,129.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.6M to $4.1M (−10%).
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 43% · 2021 51% · 2022 44% · 2023 36% · 2024 50% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of Childrens Center’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. 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.
Board chair
Elisabeth Zeller
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $174k → $295k.
6 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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 Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
28% 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 Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 47% · 2019 30% · 2020 36% · 2021 28% · 2022 62% · 2023 34% — 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 Childrens Center'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
78% of Childrens Center's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $327k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Center's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Childrens Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $253k on record — $252k federal, $1k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$252k
- FL$1k
- OR$27
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 Childrens Center
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Childrens Center: 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 Center?
- Childrens Center (Oregon) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,191,704 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($804,800). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Childrens Center have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $3,191,704 in grants to Childrens Center, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Childrens Center?
- The Ford Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $804,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Childrens Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 50 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