Florida · Nonprofit
KIDS CENTRAL INC
KIDS CENTRAL INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,231,889 to it, the largest being Central Healthy Start Incorporated ($8,124,076). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Kids Central Inc does
Mission
Protecting children. Supporting families. Engaging communities. To develop and manage a child-centered community-based system of care for abused, neglected and abandoned children and their families, in order to strengthen families and prevent them from entering the child welfare system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Case management - develop and manage case plans for children that enter the child welfare system. Each child's case plan includes a goal for the best outcome for the child, such as reunification with the child's family, placement with a relative or non-relative caregiver, or adoption. Case workers then manage the case plans by visiting the children, families and caregivers and arranging for the services identified in the case plans that are needed to achieve the best outcomes for the children.
$26,856,991 spent33% of program spendingFoster care - payments made to foster parents to provide temporary care in a family like setting to children whose parents cannot take care of them due to reported abuse or neglect.
$9,970,726 spentof which $1,021,935 as grants12% of program spendingAdoption - recruit prospective adoptive parents and assist with the adoption process for children in the child welfare system whose biological parents have had their parental rights terminated by the courts. The case management activities for children awaiting adoptions and the maintenance adoption subsidies paid to eligible, adoptive families are included in the adoption program.
$19,123,587 spentof which $15,043,922 as grants23% of program spendingOther out of home care - provide the basic necessities, such as shelter, food, and supervision, as well as other services in a group setting to children in the child welfare system that have been removed from their homes. The caregivers in this program operate facilities that are licensed to provide care to a larger number of children than traditional foster homes. Other programs include residential group care and emergency shelter, recruitment and licensing, and independent living.
$25,614,145 spentof which $369,370 as grants$3,323,214 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $81,565,449.
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 $9.2M to $13M (+37%).
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 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 95% · 2021 94% · 2022 93% · 2023 95% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of KIDS CENTRAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
John Cooper
CEO
Board chair
Stephen Spivey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $3.3M.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $99k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Mid Florida Area Agency on Aging Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money KIDS CENTRAL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KIDS CENTRAL INC’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
KIDS CENTRAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 KIDS CENTRAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 61% · 2019 59% · 2020 64% · 2021 70% · 2022 47% · 2023 57% — 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
43% of KIDS CENTRAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
99% of KIDS CENTRAL INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
KIDS CENTRAL INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding KIDS CENTRAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES - GENERAL $4k
- FINGERPRINTING/BACKGROUND $280
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 KIDS CENTRAL INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 1 related entity
- Cbha LLC (See Part Vii) · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KIDS CENTRAL INC?
- KIDS CENTRAL INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,231,889 to it, the largest being Central Healthy Start Incorporated ($8,124,076). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS CENTRAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $17,231,889 in grants to KIDS CENTRAL INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS CENTRAL INC?
- Central Healthy Start Incorporated is the largest funder on record, with $8,124,076 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS CENTRAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 16 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