Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,852,818 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF TEXAS INC ($34,575,268). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 170
- Grants received
- $52M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Dallas Children's Advocacy Center does
Mission
Our mission is to improve the lives of abused children in dallas county and provide national leadership on child abuse issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Investigative and support services: dcac provides child-centered forensic and family advocacy services to children affected by criminal abuse and their non-offending family members. Specially trained forensic interviewers conduct neutral, developmentally appropriate, and legally defensible interviews in a safe setting, helping children share what happened while preserving the integrity of their statements and supporting effective investigations. Family advocates then walk alongside children and caregivers throughout the investigation, healing, and legal process. They explain families' rights, conduct trauma screenings, connect clients to therapy and community resources, and help address urgent needs that could otherwise become barriers to safety, stability, and healing. All services are provided at no cost to families. During fy25, dcac conducted 1,725 forensic interviews and provided family support services to 5,681 clients.
$4,965,845 spent40% of program spendingTherapy: dcac provides evidence-based, trauma-informed mental health services to help children and their non-offending family members heal from the effects of abuse, severe neglect, trafficking, or witnessing a violent crime. Master's- and doctoral-level therapists and clinical social workers develop individualized treatment plans based on each family's needs. Services include individual, family, and group therapy, parenting support, and other specialized clinical services provided in english and spanish. Through accessible care provided at no cost, dcac helps children and families process trauma, develop healthy coping skills, strengthen resilience, and regain a sense of safety, hope, and stability. During fy25, children and families completed 14,902 hours of therapy services at dcac.
$3,237,614 spent26% of program spendingEducation: dcac provides evidence-informed education and training to equip professionals, caregivers, and community members to recognize, report, investigate, prosecute, treat, and prevent child abuse. Educational programs include professional and community lecture series, specialized curricula, on-demand learning, and the internationally recognized crimes against children conference. Training addresses emerging trends and critical needs in child protection, including forensic interviewing, trauma-informed care, human trafficking, online exploitation, case coordination, and survivor support. By sharing practical knowledge and leading practices, dcac strengthens the professionals and communities responsible for protecting children and helping survivors heal. The 2025 crimes against children conference brought together 4,716 attendees from all 50 states and 19 countries for 525 workshops and case studies led by 252 expert speakers.
$2,961,780 spent$3,814,063 earned by the program24% of program spendingDcac serves as the coordinating hub for the multidisciplinary team responsible for responding to criminal child abuse cases in dallas county. The team brings together law enforcement, child protective services, prosecutors, medical professionals, and other partner agencies to coordinate investigation, prosecution, treatment, and family support. Dcac reviews new and ongoing cases, initiates and monitors referrals, facilitates priority responses and formal case-review meetings, and helps ensure that partners follow the agreed investigative protocol. This seamless team approach reduces duplication, promotes accountability, strengthens case outcomes, and provides children and families with a more coordinated and less traumatic response. During fy25, dcac coordinated the work of more than 40 partner agencies serving children and families throughout dallas county.
$1,339,830 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,505,069.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $15M to $18M (+19%).
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: 2018 32% · 2019 34% · 2020 39% · 2021 51% · 2022 30% · 2023 40% · 2024 36% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Irish Burch
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $7.6M.
28 of 170 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $120k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dallas Children's Advocacy Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 170 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
DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 81% · 2019 65% · 2020 63% · 2021 52% · 2022 74% · 2023 73% — 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.
How long its funders stay
39% of DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
98% of DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $240k on record — $231k federal, $9k state.
- Department of Homeland Security$121k
- Department of Justice$104k
- Department of State$7k
- OK$5k
- MA$3k
- FL$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 DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Dallas Children's Advocacy Center Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY 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 DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER?
- DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,852,818 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF TEXAS INC ($34,575,268). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 170 organizations giving $51,852,818 in grants to DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER, 90 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER?
- CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,575,268 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 170 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