Massachusetts · Nonprofit
JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER
JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,555,807 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($595,439). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Judge Baker Children's Center does
Mission
The Judge Baker Children's Center promotes the best possible mental health of children and families through the integration of research, intervention, training and advocacy. Through the research we identify best practices. Through intervention we bring those practices to children and families of diverse communities. Through training we disseminate skills in research and quality care. Through advocacy we use scientific knowledge to expand public awareness and inform public policy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School-based programs at the baker center consist of the manville school, a therapeutic day school for children (ages 4-18) experiencing complex emotional, behavioral, neurological and learning disabilities that impact their ability to succeed in other school settings. Each year, more than 100 children achieve exceptional educational and personal outcomes through manville's evidence-based instructional, clinical, and behavioral practices.
$13,593,752 spent47% of program spendingCommunity-based programs at the baker center consist of camp baker, next step: college success & independent living, and the massachusetts child abuse emergency line. Camp baker is a six-week summer treatment day camp for children (ages 6 to 12) with adhd and other related challenges which combines traditional summer camp activities with learning social, academic, and life skills. Next step: college success is a college preparatory program for students (ages 16-20) with social learning and anxiety challenges, or related learning differences, and acts as a simulation for independent living while in college. The massachusetts child abuse emergency line, operated by the baker center on behalf of the massachusetts department of children and families, provides a statewide emergency response system protecting the commonwealth's children from abuse and neglect.
$5,949,492 spent21% of program spendingResearch and training programs at the baker center consist of the professional training program, the quality care initiative, and the implementation research division. The baker center provides professional training programs to current and future psychologists, social workers, early childhood specialists, special education teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, and mental health counselors through the professional training program. The quality care initiative partners with community-based mental health agencies, schools, and healthcare organizations across the country to increase access to high quality, scientifically proven, services through training, organizational development, and advocacy. The implementation research division, based in hawaii, focuses on improving the lives of those with behavioral health conditions through community-based participatory research approaches.
$4,657,108 spent16% of program spendingOutpatient clinical programs at the baker center consist of the center for effective therapy, an outpatient mental health treatment center that provides high-quality, evidence-based care for children and families who are dealing with problems related to anxiety, depression, trauma, disruptive behavior, and parenting. The center for effective therapy has two clinic locations: boston, ma and waltham, ma.
$4,019,972 spent$2,424,889 earned by the program14% of program spendingThe new england association of child welfare commissioners and directors is a consortium of child welfare agency leaders and staff from connecticut, maine, massachusetts, new hampshire, rhode island, and vermont working to improve the safety and wellbeing of children and their families. Parent and youth leaders are provided with opportunities for skill development and engage as agents of change across the region. Through a myriad of events, trainings, and policy initiatives, the association facilitates work between child welfare agencies and parent and youth leaders with the goal of better outcomes for children and families.
$765,857 spent3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,986,181.
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 $36M to $46M (+27%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 20% · 2022 91% · 2023 91% · 2024 85% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Robert Franks Phd
President & CEO
Board chair
John Serafini
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $207k → $220k.
12 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
66% 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 JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 42% · 2019 51% · 2020 19% · 2021 25% · 2022 40% · 2023 27% — 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
32% of JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
73% of JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55.3M on record — $10.3M federal, $45.0M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.3M
- MA$44.4M
- VT$327k
- CT$201k
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 JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER: 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 JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER?
- JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,555,807 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($595,439). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $2,555,807 in grants to JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $595,439 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 49 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