Kansas · Nonprofit
OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC
OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,738 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($275,957). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Oconnell Childrens Shelter Inc does
Mission
Support and stabilize young people in foster care or families in crisis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
O'Connell Children's Shelter operates under contractual agreements with various organizations to provide a residential ranch environment with basic care needs and a behavior modification program for troubled youth. The children placed are under a state supervision system.
$2,145,700 spent59% of program spendingCase management program provides services such as intervention for children displaying at-risk behavior or high school students struggling with truancy issues, and supervision and consequences for first-time or low-level juvenile offenders on conditions of release or pre-filing diversion.
$931,512 spent25% of program spendingResidential operation of two emergency shelter facilities for children, accepting children placed through judicial or law enforcement proceedings. Capacity of 28 children.
$579,060 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,656,272.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $3.5M (+153%).
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.
10% of OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $53k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER 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
OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
78% of OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $84k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k 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
OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC?
- OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,738 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($275,957). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $389,738 in grants to OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC?
- DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $275,957 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 13 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