Oregon · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN (Oregon) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,148,355 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,010,500). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 197
- Grants received
- $61M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Friends of the Children does
Mission
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with paid professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Friends of the Children is a national nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with paid professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. Our successful model is now in 42 locations around the country. 83% of our youth receive a high school diploma or ged, 98% of our youth wait to become parents until after their teens, 93% of our youth remain free from juvenile justice system involvement, and 92% of our youth go on to enroll in post-secondary education, serve our country, or enter the workforce.
$21,103,040 spentof which $13,475,394 as grants$2,104,527 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,103,040.
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 2021 to 2022, from $18M to $37M (+107%).
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 23% · 2018 41% · 2019 27% · 2020 14% · 2021 17% · 2022 5% · 2023 9% · 2024 16% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Terri Sorensen
CEO
Board chair
Stephen M Graham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $687k → $20M.
33 of 197 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 197 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
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 36% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 30% · 2022 38% · 2023 73% — 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
34% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
58% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'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 $26M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 31 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 144 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Friends of the Children National LLC · disregarded
- Friends of the Children-Portland · exempt
- Youth Resources Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN?
- FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN (Oregon) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,148,355 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,010,500). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 197 organizations giving $61,148,355 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $25,010,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 197 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