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KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS

KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,028 to it, the largest being Foundations Community Partnership ($31,873). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$67M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$102k
Net assets
$-16781888
5/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Kidspeace National Centers for Kids in Crisis does

Mission

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this national organization provides mental and behavioral healthcare to thousands of children each year, and reaches millions more kids and families with prevention and public education campaigns designed to help kids avoid and overcome the kinds of crises that can strike any child.founded in bethlehem, pa, kidspeace and its associates are dedicated to healing and guiding children through disasters, personal traumas, family problems, abuse, neglect, depression, and the many stresses of modern life today. Kidspeace exists to give kids peace.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Residential mental health treatment: residential care and education for children facing crisis ages 6-18; services include counseling, art/music therapy, recreation facilities; all of these are provided in a safe & secure environment to ensure clients overcome crisis. The programs served 654 clients in 2024.

    $36,520,452 spent$41,751,968 earned by the program
    66% of program spending
  2. Kidshaven - this program provides short term counseling, education and housing to children/adolescents in the refugee population who cross international borders into the united states. The goal of the program is reunification of these children with family members who live in the united states.

    $12,488,491 spent$12,351,396 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  3. Foster care programs: community foster care for children facing crisis served 737 children in 2024.

    $6,294,505 spent$12,228,542 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  4. Outpatient mental health treatment programs: outpatient therapy for children facing crisis. Specifically, two acute partial hospitalization programs service clients in the lehigh valley region. This allows a transition from an inpatient hospitalization to a more formal and structured treatment setting over and above what outpatient programs provide.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $55,303,448.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($54M) Expenses 100 ($54M)2018 Revenue 104 ($56M) Expenses 108 ($59M)2019 Revenue 105 ($56M) Expenses 110 ($60M)2020 Revenue 106 ($57M) Expenses 112 ($61M)2021 Revenue 110 ($59M) Expenses 114 ($62M)2022 Revenue 101 ($54M) Expenses 106 ($58M)2023 Revenue 111 ($59M) Expenses 115 ($63M)2024 Revenue 124 ($67M) Expenses 118 ($64M)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (118)Peer revenue range

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 $13M to $10.0M (−21%).

$11M
$9.9M
$12M
$13M
$10.0M
$11M
$13M
$14M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$552k
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−$2.8M
’18
−$3.4M
’19
−$4.0M
’20
−$3.2M
’21
−$3.5M
’22
−$3.1M
’23
$2.3M
’24
0.0
months of
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

Michael Slack

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1113121091099
Joined·+3+0+2+0+2+1+0
No longer listed·1141120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $28k.

2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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

KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 78% · 2022 42% · 2023 29% — 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

60% of KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

78% of KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · above the median
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $46.2M on record — $41.8M federal, $4.4M state.

Federal$41.8M
grants $41.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$41.8M
State$4.4M
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By state
  • NJ$4.4M
  • CT$40

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • Kidspeace Corporation · exempt
  • Kidspeace Children's Hospital Inc · exempt
  • Mesabi Acacemy of Kidpeace Inc · exempt
  • Kidspeace National Centers of New England · exempt
  • Kidspeace Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS?
KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,028 to it, the largest being Foundations Community Partnership ($31,873). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $102,028 in grants to KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS?
Foundations Community Partnership is the largest funder on record, with $31,873 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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