Tennessee · Nonprofit
Cumberland Childrens Center
Cumberland Childrens Center (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,171 to it, the largest being RANSOM CHARITABLE TRUST ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $387k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $157k
What Cumberland Childrens Center does
Mission
The purpose of the corporation is to assist the various law enforcement and child welfare agencies of the State of Tennessee and Cumb Co, as well as to educate and inform the public of as to how to detect and prevent child abuse.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Donations of Clothing, toys and household items to DCS Children
$252,551 spent$119,490 earned by the program81% of program spendingThe organization has established an Angel Tree program where individuals donate toys or cash to the organization in order to ensure all children in the county who meet certain income criteria are able to have a normal Christmas.
$57,835 spent$82,199 earned by the program19% of program spendingThe organization has established a Grace Program where a relative caregiver has children in the home that are not their natural children. These children have been placed in the home by DCS or have basically abandoned by their parents. The needs of these caregivers are assessed and if a need is there, the organization will give financial assistance to the caregiver to ensure the child is in a safe home environment.
$985 spent0% of program spendingThe organization has established a Client Services program to assist parents who have children in their home or are working on unification with the children. These individuals would be Department of Children Services clients or past clients of the organization. All individuals must go through a need assessment before receiving funds from the organization. The organization has a scholarship fund in memory of Hope who lost her life to abuse. The organization was created in her honor. Grace program
$985 spent$3,104 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,356.
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 2019 to 2020, from $176k to $277k (+57%).
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: 2019 28% · 2021 11% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Cumberland Childrens Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Denise Melton
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $279k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Threads of Hope Thrift Store Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Cumberland Childrens Center raised.
From the IRS filings of Cumberland Childrens Center’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
Cumberland Childrens Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
Cumberland Childrens Center draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Cumberland Childrens Center's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Cumberland 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 Tennessee
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Threads of Hope Thrift Store Inc · exempt
- Threads of Hope Inc · corp_trust
- Threads of Hope Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cumberland 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 Cumberland Childrens Center?
- Cumberland Childrens Center (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,171 to it, the largest being RANSOM CHARITABLE TRUST ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cumberland Childrens Center have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $45,171 in grants to Cumberland Childrens Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cumberland Childrens Center?
- RANSOM CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cumberland Childrens Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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