Missouri · Nonprofit
Evangelical Children's Home
Evangelical Children's Home (Missouri) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,047,355 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($4,298,989). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Evangelical Children's Home does
Mission
Partnering with the community to assist children, youth and families in their unique pursuit of health and wholeness through quality, professional and faithful services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential Treatment Services: ECH offers sepcialized care as well as both safe-intensive and aftercare residential treatment servcies for troubled children and youth. This allows ECH to accept youth with a wide spectrum of mental health and behavioral concerns. Residential treatment attempts to stabilize presenting problems, improve overall functioning, and transition youth at discharge to a permanent family setting. Comprehensive services available in each level of treatment include psychiatric and psychological care; physical health care; individual, family and group therapy provided by licensed professionals; case management; crisis intervention; medication management; special education services; and recreation and expressive therapies. Safe and intensive units (SI) serve children ages 6 through 17. Children placed in safe intensive units have often suffered physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse and neglect and have highly acute needs. They frequently display aggressive, self-harm or runaway behaviors. Aftercare services are for children ready to return home after completing ECH's safe and intensive residential program. For six months, ECH helps to ensure the transition…
$3,968,406 spentof which $36,235 as grants$1,565,343 earned by the program30% of program spendingSteppingstone Transitional Living Services: Steppingstone provides shelter and support for at-risk, runaway and homeless youth ages 16-21 in an array of safe and supervised living environments. Steppingstone services are offered in both ECH's St. Louis and Kansas City regions. Based on capabilities identified at initial assessment, the youth is placed in an apprpriate level of care and supervision that can include group living, structured apartment, or scattered site/community apartment. Steppingstone provides services to help youth develop self-sufficiency, including educational and employment assistance, life skills training, individual case managment, and physical and mental health treatment. Steppingstone services are based on the positive youth development philosophy with an overall goal of assisting youth to plan for a stable, safe living environment and self-sufficiency after exiting the program.
$3,710,210 spentof which $528,391 as grants$573,879 earned by the program28% of program spendingCommunity-Based Services: Community-Based Services includes three programs - Outpatient Psychiatry, Family Solutions for Kids and Foster Care Case Management - that provide a wide range of office and community-based services to children, youth and their families. Outpatient Psychiatry Services are available to children and youth under the age of 20 residing in the St. Louis and Franklin counties of Missouri. Services include psychiatric evaluation, therapeutic stabilization, medication managment and individual and family therapy. Family Solutions for Kids services is a collaborative program with an allied agency that provides intensive in-home therapy and case management services to children and youth between the ages of 4 to 20 residing in the St. Louis and Franklin counties of Missouri. Services are provided by a licensed or provisionally licensed therapist at an average of 5 hours per week for up to 16 weeks. Primary focus is placed on stabilizing presenting problems and strengthening coping strategies and supports to sustain therapeutic gains upon discharge. Foster Care Case Management services works with biological families according to the Adoption and Safe Families Act to…
$5,250,241 spentof which $31,289 as grants$3,758,681 earned by the program39% of program spendingECH offers a range of educational services from an early education center to the Carrie Elligson Gietner School.The Carrie Elligson Gietner School. operated by ECH as an affiliated 501(c)(3). provides an on-site alternative program for children who are not attending public school due to behavorial and/or learning challenges. The Program is designed to help elementary through high-school aged students achieve emotional well-being along with improved performance and behavorial functioning. The long-term goal for every student is reintegration to the most appropriate community-based school and ultimate achievement of high school graduation. Some students are in residential treatment at ECH while others are referred through partnerships with coordinating area public school districts.
$486,394 spentof which $475,887 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,415,251.
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 2020 to 2021, from $33M to $36M (+10%).
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 22% · 2018 21% · 2019 23% · 2020 27% · 2021 30% · 2022 32% · 2023 45% · 2024 43% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of Evangelical Children's Home’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. 6 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
Julia Adami
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $88k → $1.9M.
8 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Evangelical Children's Home’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
Evangelical Children's Home leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 Evangelical Children's Home.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 85% · 2019 80% · 2020 35% · 2021 58% · 2022 40% · 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
60% of Evangelical Children's Home'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
68% of Evangelical Children's Home's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k 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
Evangelical Children's Home's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Evangelical Children's Home receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.9M
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 Evangelical Children's Home
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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
- Evangelical Children's Home School · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Evangelical Children's Home: 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 Evangelical Children's Home?
- Evangelical Children's Home (Missouri) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,047,355 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($4,298,989). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Evangelical Children's Home have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $9,047,355 in grants to Evangelical Children's Home, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Evangelical Children's Home?
- JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,298,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Evangelical Children's Home find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 43 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