Ohio · Nonprofit
FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN
FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,122,103 to it, the largest being L & L NIPPERT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ATTN CARTER F RANDOLPH PHD ($200,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $765k
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $-2896818
What Fernside Inc a Center for Grieving Children does
Mission
Peer support and advocacy for grieving children and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Beginning in 1986, fernside, inc.: a center for grieving children ("fernside") offers support and advocacy to grieving families who have experienced a death. This is accomplished by peer support for grieving children, teens and adults. The organization also works to increase community awareness of grief issues through community outreach. All services offered by fernside are provided free of charge. Services include: family program fernside offers groups for children and teens ages 3-18, who are grieving the death of a family member or friend. Parents and guardians also meet in their own support group. During the tax year, 758 individuals benefited from this program provided by fernside. Special collaborations fernside provides grief support for children and adults with special needs in collaborations with schools and other social service agencies. During the tax year, 43 individuals benefited from this program provided by fernside. School program fernside collaborates with elementary schools, junior high and high schools to provide on-site grief support for grieving students. During the tax year, 430 individuals benefited from this program provided by fernside. Camp program…
$769,193 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $769,193.
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 2022 to 2023, from $223k to $536k (+141%).
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.
100% of FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $71k → $172k.
10 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bethesda Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN raised.
From the IRS filings of FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
31% 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 FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 30% · 2019 22% · 2020 22% · 2021 24% · 2022 16% · 2023 22% — 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
41% of FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN'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
77% of FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $293k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN has grown faster than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 24 related entities
- Bethesda Inc · exempt
- Bethesda Hospital Inc · exempt
- Bethesda Foundation Inc · exempt
- Bethesda Healthcare Inc · exempt
- Bethesda Family Practice Center · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN?
- FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,122,103 to it, the largest being L & L NIPPERT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ATTN CARTER F RANDOLPH PHD ($200,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,122,103 in grants to FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN?
- L & L NIPPERT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ATTN CARTER F RANDOLPH PHD is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 42 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