Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC
COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,428,873 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,908,755). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Courageous Parents Networkinc does
Mission
The mission of courageous parents network is to support parents and families of children living with lifelimiting illness with the tools they need as they adjust to the prognosis and then when they contemplate their childs transition to endoflife.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Collaborations in thought leadership courageous parents network is recognized by clinicians, patient groups and industry as a trusted authority and thought-leader partner representing the lived experience and needs of families caring for a child with a serious medical condition. Cpn values these relationships for three reasons: they extend the reach of cpn resources; they increase cpn's exposure to adjacent groups serving families and thereby grow our understanding of what is available to families; and they enhance our shared understanding of how best to support affected families. 2025 collaborations include: stanford center for continuing medical education (sccme) courageous parents network delivers monthly webinars on psychosocial topics affecting parents of children with medical complexity (see the in the room article). While designed for a parent audience, pediatric healthcare clinicians frequently attend. They report benefits of learning from cpn about the family lived experience and they value hearing directly from parents. In september 2025 cpn began to offer continuing education credit to approved professions. Continuing education is made available through the stanford…
$847,730 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $847,730.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $1.8M (+20%).
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.
103% of COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $233k → $588k.
10 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 42% · 2019 44% · 2020 35% · 2021 42% · 2022 35% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.
“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
41% of COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
51% of COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.2M that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC: 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 COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC?
- COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,428,873 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,908,755). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $4,428,873 in grants to COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,908,755 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 53 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