New Jersey · Nonprofit
DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC
DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,291,609 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($396,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Deirdre O'Brien Child Advocacy Center Inc does
Mission
To provide forensic interviewing, medical examinations and treatment, mental health services, advocacy and other services to child victims of abuse and/or neglect and for children that have witnessed violence. Deirdre's house had over 3,056 child visits in 2025.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child advocacy:deirdre's house is the only site in morris county where a child under the age of twelve victim of abuse and/or neglect can be digitally interviewed by law enforcement. Child advocacy includes:1. Digitally recorded forensic interviews and trial preparation -interviews by law enforcement personnel with children 12 and under regarding allegations of child abuse and neglect.2. Medical services - enables children suspected of having been physically and/or sexually abused to receive medical evaluation and short-term follow-up treatment. 3. Case management and outreach - deirdre's house has three bi-lingual child advocates who assist in case management, which includes facilitating and connecting clients with services directly provided by deirdre's house or with outside organizations and professionals that collaborate with deirdre's house.
$229,461 spent21% of program spendingMental health services - provides the following services:1. Clinical counseling - deirdre's house has four licensed clinical counselors that provide on-site individual and group clinical counseling to child victims of abuse and their non-offending caregivers. All clinical counseling services are provided in english and spanish. This is a comprehensive program of supportive listening, crisis intervention, counseling, case management, support during court proceedings and other case related events, and follow-up.2. Psychiatric and psychological evaluations - deirdre's house, in partnership with collaborating psychiatrists and psychologists, provides psychiatric and psychological evaluations, follow-ups, and medication monitoring.
$852,924 spent76% of program spendingVarious child abuse prevention programs focusing on community education and awareness.1. Prevention and community education program - deirdre's house provides in-school and community education services in english and spanish. These services address the identification, prevention, and reporting of child abuse and emerging issues in child welfare like cyberbullying and safe use of technology. These presentations and trainings address child abuse prevention, mental health, and youth. The outcomes sought are a decrease in child abuse, increased reporting of incidences of abuse, and a change in youth culture regarding the responsible use of technology to decrease incidents of cyberbullying, child on child sexual abuse, and an increase in knowledge of support services to prevent and/or lessen stresses that can lead to child abuse.the game of life program (gol) education program is a collaboration coordinated by deirdre's house involving over twenty morris county social service agencies directed at high school students. This program is both a child abuse prevention program as well as a program which educated students as to the services available in morris county. This program is…
$34,787 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,117,172.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.5M to $2.6M (+72%).
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: 2017 47% · 2018 45% · 2019 29% · 2020 50% · 2021 48% · 2022 33% · 2023 45% · 2024 34% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Maria Vinci-Savettiere Esq
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $59k → $206k.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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
DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 63% · 2019 51% · 2020 27% · 2021 34% · 2022 32% · 2023 44% — 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
63% of DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
54% of DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC'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 $592k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $700k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC?
- DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,291,609 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($396,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,291,609 in grants to DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $396,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEIRDRE O'BRIEN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER 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 28 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