New Jersey · Nonprofit
CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC
CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being CARVERDELANEY FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Christmas Is for Children Inc does
Mission
Christmas is for children, inc. Was started by two social workers in 1992. These two individuals answered letters to santa claus from the children of four needy families, making their christmas wishes come true.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Since its inception the organization has supported over 13,000 underprivileged children dealing with poverty, aids, domestic violence, and substance-abusing parents. Various organizations throughout the area help the organization identify families who otherwise would not have a holdiay celebration and help their children complete wish lists consisting of three components: something each child wants something he or she needs and something educational. Supporters "sponsor" a child by shopping for items specified on the wish lists and delivering wrapped and tagged gifts to one of several prearranged drop-off sites in early december. The program has expanded over the years to include food baskets for the entire family, clothes, and school supplies. In mid december volunteers tranport the gift bags and food baskets to a centralized location where agencies pick them up and deliver them to the designated families just before christmas or hanukkah, as appopriate.
$1,831 spentof which $21,121 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,831.
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 $24k to $66k (+170%).
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.
100% of CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $250.
From the IRS filings of CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC’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
CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC's revenue fell 66% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN 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 CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC?
- CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being CARVERDELANEY FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,500 in grants to CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC?
- CARVERDELANEY FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2 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