Kentucky · Nonprofit
NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC
NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,126,122 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($655,613). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Northern Kentucky Childrens Law Center Inc does
Program
Legal representation to children in the area of juvenile justice, child protection issues, and education rights in ohio and kentucky. To reform conditions of confinement in ohios 7 correctional facilities as well as to promote more effective policies and practices for indigent juvenile defense. To provide training, technical assistance and support to public defenders working with juveniles in kentucky, ohio, tennessee, indiana, kansas, arkansas and missouri
$971,013 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $971,013.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+43%).
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 36% · 2018 41% · 2019 43% · 2020 66% · 2021 27% · 2022 45% · 2023 25% · 2024 29% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER 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. 2 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
Alexandra Naiman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $263k → $497k.
10 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
39% 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 NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 22% · 2019 36% · 2020 14% · 2021 23% · 2022 22% · 2023 22% — broadly stable.
“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
46% of NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $329k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC?
- NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,126,122 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($655,613). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $3,126,122 in grants to NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $655,613 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 42 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