Texas · Nonprofit
GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES
GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $565,733 to it, the largest being The Bless Foundation ($210,039). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $566k
- Net assets
- $739k
What Global Child Advocates does
Mission
Global Child Advocates is a dedicated team of child protection specialists whose mission is to strengthen the layers of protection around children to prevent abuse, trafficking, and exploitation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Global Child Advocates strengthens child protection systems so children grow up safe and loved in families. Core outcomes include: transforming care: helping redesign child welfare systems to prevent separation, support reunification, expand kinship, foster, and adoption; permanency: supporting children to achieve safe, permanent family solutions through reunification, kinship, foster, or adoptive care; and family preservation: equipping vulnerable families with resources, skills, and support to provide stable, nurturing, protective care and prevent unnecessary separation. Advocacy: advancing national and global policies that prioritize family-based care and reduce unnecessary institutionalization of children.
$695,856 spentof which $533,007 as grants86% of program spendingSojourn studio is gcas social enterprise operating on the thailand-myanmar border that empowers vulnerable young women and mothers through dignified employment. Artisans handcraft jewelry and accessories while gaining marketable skills, supportive community, and opportunities for personal growth. Participants receive fair wages, educational scholarships, savings opportunities, health benefits, and maternity support. Through sustainable employment, women increase economic stability, strengthen their families, and gain greater agency over their lives and the futures of their children.
$70,019 spent$77,618 earned by the program9% of program spendingFreedom restoration project is a program partner of Global Child Advocates serving migrant families on the thailand-myanmar border. The partnership helps prevent and respond to domestic violence, abuse, and exploitation affecting vulnerable women, children, and families facing displacement and poverty. Services include emergency shelter for mothers with children, prevention education, crisis support, drop-in services, case management, and empowerment programs that promote safety, healing, and family stability. The program helps break generational cycles of violence and strengthen protective community support systems.
$47,288 spentof which $47,288 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $813,163.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $223k to $450k (+102%).
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.
88% of GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Ashlee Heiligman
Executive director
Board chair
Christopher Mcwhorter
Board chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $38k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES’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
GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 70% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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
50% of GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
53% of GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES'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 $264k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $302k 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
GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES: 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 GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES?
- GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $565,733 to it, the largest being The Bless Foundation ($210,039). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $565,733 in grants to GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES?
- The Bless Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $210,039 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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