Washington · Nonprofit
Committee for Children
Committee for Children (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,704,654 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,098,581). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $-1900544
What Committee for Children does
Mission
To foster the safety and well-being of children through social-emotional learning and development.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Program Development: Designing and developing new programs, enhancing existing programs, and developing tools and resources to support implementation. We use research, prototyping, field testing, advisory groups, and continuous feedback to ensure program engagement, relevance, and high implementation fidelity. Program development, impact, and evaluation goal: Develop, continuously improve, and evaluate culturally responsive and affirming programs that extend social-emotional learning into multiple settings and increase program impact through research-informed strategies and ongoing assessment of effectiveness.(See Schedule O for more achievements.) - Redesigned the K8 training experience with role-specific content and educator and student stories. - Introduced new and revised K12 lessons reflecting a broader range of student experiences. - Used educator survey and platform data to improve training structure, navigation, completion tracking, and differentiated access. - Expanded middle school units, high school practice tools, and district-level dashboards. - Conducted four Second Step K8 studies, each with more than 4,000 students, showing statistically significant outcomes at…
$8,473,689 spent43% of program spendingImplementation and Support: Providing consultation, training, and implementation support to current and prospective clients focused on the successful reach and impact of CFC programs. Implementation and support goal: Provide high-quality, efficient, and accessible implementation support to help ensure the successful reach and impact of our programs.Improved implementation supports by adding the following new strategies and tools: - Added implementation videos, webinars, messaging, check-in schedules, and resources.(See Schedule O for more achievements.) - Developed new training workshops to strengthen program implementation. - Created new goal setting tools. - Integrated implementation tools into programs to support social-emotional learning across classrooms, staff meetings, and schoolwide initiatives. - Launched a more intuitive implementation guide and improved access to key implementation resources. - Launched a high school program implementation and training plan.
$6,141,653 spent$416,578 earned by the program31% of program spendingCommunity Education: Educating teachers, administrators, families, and the broader community about social-emotional skill development, bullying prevention, and personal safety for children through conferences, presentations, speeches, community awareness campaigns, legislative advocacy, media outreach, and printed and web-based materials. Community education goal: Increase community awareness of human skills development, child sexual abuse prevention, and bullying prevention through social media, publications, presentations, policy advocacy, and other outreach.(See Schedule O for more achievements.) - Expanded social media channels to increase awareness of human skills development, child sexual abuse prevention, and bullying prevention. - Added blog content to SecondStep.org to expand access to social-emotional learning resources that help educators strengthen children's skills. - Attended and presented at national and regional conferences, including ISTE and ASCA, two national organizations that support K12 education and collectively serve more than 50,000 members. - Hosted a national webinar with more than 1,000 registrants on "Empowering Student Mental Wellness: The Science of…
$4,316,401 spent22% of program spendingProduction: Assembling and distributing educational programs and materials and maintaining and managing inventory.
$693,823 spent$33,174,833 earned by the program4% of program spendingResearch and Evaluation: Researching areas related to CFC programs and recommending new program design. Conducting or partnering with outside entities to conduct evaluations on the effectiveness of existing CFC programs.
$196,129 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,821,695.
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 $37M to $26M (−29%).
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: 2022 10% · 2026 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Committee for Children’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 10 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
Andrea Lovanhill
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $159k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Committee for Children’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
Committee for Children leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 66% · 2021 68% · 2022 71% · 2023 63% — 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
13% of Committee for Children's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
66% of Committee for Children's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Committee for Children's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Government funding Committee for Children receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $71k on record — $60k federal, $11k state.
- Department of the Interior$60k
- VT$10k
- MA$1k
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 Committee for Children
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Committee for Children: 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 Committee for Children?
- Committee for Children (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,704,654 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,098,581). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Committee for Children have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,704,654 in grants to Committee for Children, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Committee for Children?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,098,581 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Committee for Children 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing