Florida · Nonprofit
Manatee Children's Services Inc
Manatee Children's Services Inc (Florida) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,232,104 to it, the largest being FLORIDA NETWORK OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS INC ($1,582,632). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Manatee Children's Services Inc does
Mission
Preventing child abuse, restoring healing, and strengthening all children and their families through advocacy, treatment, and shelter.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
RESIDENTIAL: Manatee Children's Services operates a continuum of residential programs that provide immediate safety and long-term stability for children who have experienced abuse or neglect. Through the Emergency Shelter, operating since 1979, children ages 6-17 receive short-term care including crisis intervention, counseling, academic support, and advocacy while permanent placements are arranged. Across reporting periods, approximately 97% of children served in the Emergency Shelter consistently demonstrate at least two age-appropriate personal safety strategies, such as identifying unsafe situations, understanding how to report threats, and recognizing appropriate boundaries: skills shown to reduce future risk of abuse. Children requiring longer-term care may transition to one of MCS's licensed residential group homes, which provide trauma-informed, family-style care and 24/7 supervision for youth ages 10-17, many of whom are at risk of or have experienced human trafficking. By prioritizing placement stability and individualized services, approximately 96% of youth in MCS group homes reliably develop and demonstrate age-appropriate independent living skills, including personal…
$2,099,418 spentof which $104,587 as grants45% of program spendingThe Child Advocacy Center (CAC) serves more than 13,000 children annually that are either victims of child abuse or suspected of abuse. The CAC maintains its exceptional accreditation by the federally recognized National Children's Alliance and continues to accomplish the goal of providing potentially lifesaving evidenced based services to children and families. Prevention Services include parenting education to high risk parents that have abused or neglected their children in an effort to reunify them safely with their children. Pregnancy prevention services are offered to youth at risk of pregnancy, drug abuse and other forms of delinquency. Personal Safety skills designed to prevent child abuse are taught at every elementary school in Manatee County, reaching thousands of school aged children. (continued- Sch O) Kinship services such as support groups, basic needs referrals and services are provided to over 150 Grandparents annually to preserve relative placements for abused children. Therapy Programs provide evidenced based treatments to children that have been physically and sexually abused, witnessed domestic violence, violent crimes or suffer from extreme parental neglect.…
$1,947,221 spentof which $4,026 as grants42% of program spendingThe Child Protection Team provides alleged child victims of abuse with specialized, non leading interviews and expert court testimony. A trained child abuse medical provider provides medical exams to collect physical evidence of abuse as well as expert testimony.
$574,245 spentof which $713 as grants12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,620,884.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.6M to $3.2M (+21%).
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 94% · 2018 93% · 2019 96% · 2020 99% · 2021 80% · 2022 91% · 2023 93% · 2024 92% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Manatee Children's Services Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Melinda Thompson
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $198k → $487k.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Manatee Children's Services Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
Manatee Children's Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 Manatee Children's Services Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 71% · 2019 70% · 2020 66% · 2021 61% · 2022 44% · 2023 43% — 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
58% of Manatee Children's Services Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
92% of Manatee Children's Services 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. $758k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Manatee Children's Services Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Manatee Children's Services Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $903 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $903
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 Manatee Children's Services 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
90% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Manatee Children's Services Inc: 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 Manatee Children's Services Inc?
- Manatee Children's Services Inc (Florida) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,232,104 to it, the largest being FLORIDA NETWORK OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS INC ($1,582,632). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Manatee Children's Services Inc have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,232,104 in grants to Manatee Children's Services Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Manatee Children's Services Inc?
- FLORIDA NETWORK OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,582,632 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Manatee Children's Services 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.
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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 25 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