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EMPTY CRADLE

EMPTY CRADLE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,180 to it, the largest being ELEANOR HUTCHINSON PARKER FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$52k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$63k
Net assets
$19k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Empty Cradle does

Mission

Empty Cradle is a non-denominational organization dedicated to providing support to families who have experienced the loss of a baby due to miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death or SIDS.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Meetings and events provide a forum for the open discussion of feelings and concerns. Parents are free to share in whatever way is most comfortable for them.

    $37,698 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,698.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 216 ($24k) Expenses 95 ($11k) Net assets 296 ($20k)2019 Revenue 351 ($40k) Expenses 283 ($34k) Net assets 386 ($26k)2020 Revenue 324 ($37k) Expenses 249 ($30k) Net assets 488 ($32k)2021 Revenue 390 ($44k) Expenses 378 ($45k) Net assets 471 ($31k)2022 Revenue 554 ($63k) Expenses 489 ($58k) Net assets 535 ($36k)2023 Revenue 562 ($64k) Expenses 649 ($78k) Net assets 325 ($22k)2024 Revenue 408 ($46k) Expenses 436 ($52k) Net assets 235 ($16k)2025 Revenue 462 ($52k) Expenses 409 ($49k) Net assets 285 ($19k)
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Revenue (462)Expenses (409)Net assets (285)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $7k to $20k (+196%).

$7k
$20k
$26k
$32k
$31k
$36k
$28k
$17k
$21k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

73% of EMPTY CRADLE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$643
’17
$13k
’18
$6k
’19
$7k
’20
−$1k
’21
$4k
’22
−$14k
’23
−$6k
’24
$3k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $11k.

1 of 3 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 EMPTY CRADLE’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

EMPTY CRADLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 96% · 2022 92% · 2023 94% — 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.

Where its funders are

82% of EMPTY CRADLE's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EMPTY CRADLE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like EMPTY CRADLE

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPTY CRADLE: 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 EMPTY CRADLE?
EMPTY CRADLE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,180 to it, the largest being ELEANOR HUTCHINSON PARKER FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EMPTY CRADLE have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $63,180 in grants to EMPTY CRADLE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EMPTY CRADLE?
ELEANOR HUTCHINSON PARKER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMPTY CRADLE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 3 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