Maryland · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,041,769 to it, the largest being LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND ($1,198,378). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $656k
What National Children's Center Inc does
Mission
To provide a lifetime of opportunities for people in our community with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live full, meaningful and productive lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The residential services program creates homes for people with developmental disabilities that are characterized by warmth and respect. The program provides services to individuals with developmental disabilities in various settings. The services are individualized to assist in nonvocational activities that will enable the individuals to live in their own home, apartment, family home or agency site. Program sites consist of apartments and houses that are located in residential neighborhoods in prince georges and montgomery county, and the district of columbia. The program offers a continuum of care, and varying degrees of support from 24-hour to limited drop-in supervision. Services provided to individuals consists of community integration, professional support services, training in activities of daily living and other areas, person centered planning, assistance with assistive technology, 24-hour emergency assistance, resource coordination, training in food preparation, nutritional services and nursing & medical services. Many of the individuals have secondary disabilities, such as deafness, mental health challenges, and autism. The sites have been modified as needed to be…
$16,622,122 spent66% of program spendingThe early intervention program provides educational and therapeutic services through a variety of programs for children ages eight weeks to five years of age. The program establishes goals that will assist children in achieving developmental milestones and to be prepared for future educational success. Each child's educational and developmental goals are individually defined based on needs and abilities. Service coordination, support groups and training is provided for families.
$6,576,838 spent26% of program spendingNcc supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to obtain employment, develop a career path and acquire and retain competitive employment. Agency employment specialists initiate a positive personal profile (ppp), which guides each person through a "discovery" process and creates a job search plan that is customized for each job seeker. The ncc employment specialists look for employment based on information obtained in the ppp and match interests, skill sets and required skills needed for the job to determine suitability. Job coaches provide the necessary job coaching and on-the-job training and support, while employers and co-workers are supported to work effectively with the new employees.
$1,938,130 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,137,090.
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 2019 to 2020, from $17M to $9.7M (−42%).
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 56% · 2018 76% · 2019 85% · 2020 88% · 2021 91% · 2022 97% · 2023 89% · 2024 93% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC’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. 4 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
Terrance King
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Marisa C Brown
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $8k → $549k.
2 of 18 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: $19M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Children's Center Inc Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 90% · 2020 80% · 2021 41% · 2022 49% · 2023 77% — 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 NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Children's Center Inc Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC?
- NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,041,769 to it, the largest being LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND ($1,198,378). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,041,769 in grants to NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC?
- LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,198,378 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 18 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