Wisconsin · Nonprofit
SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC
SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $919,771 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($322,440). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $920k
- Net assets
- $13M
What Saint Francis Childrens Center Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to serve and educate children with special needs in inclusive environments enabling them to reach their greatest potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our community-based early intervention/birth to three program, provided on behalf of milwaukee county, served 369 children with developmental delays in 2024. Based on the number of families on title 19, approximately 44% of the children served in the program were living in homes at or below the poverty level. Our team provided excellent service and support to families, ensuring not only appropriate program services but also ensuring that families were connected to community resources that enriched the whole family. Included in these resources is our own family activity center, a program that provides mostly no-fee activities for the whole family in order to help families build a network of support to strengthen their networks and to eliminate the isolation that is sometimes experienced by families with children with special needs.
$1,312,288 spent$201,039 earned by the program31% of program spendingOur children's long term support waiver program, provided on behalf of milwaukee county, served 667 children with autism or other severe long-term physical or developmental impairments. Our staff support families both in person and virtually to help empower them to meet the special needs of their children to ensure they remained successfully in their homes and community. Our staff work diligently with the families they serve in order to link them to the services that support and enrich the entire family. The families we served in this program are also encouraged to partake in the family strengthing activites we provide through our family activity center.
$1,002,211 spent24% of program spendingOur early childhood education program serves children with and without special needs, from six weeks of age through kindergarten. Our classrooms are fully inclusive, allowing children with and without special needs the opportunity to grow, learn and play together. Our high-quality, innovative center is nationally accredited, and state licensed. Our gym, classrooms, indoor and outdoor play facilities are spacious and well-equipped providing children with the opportunity to practice skills across environments. Our preschool and kindergarten teachers are wisconsin dpi licensed in early childhood and/or special education.
$1,689,753 spent$1,352,872 earned by the program40% of program spendingOur family activity center is a resource for our community of families that have children with special needs. Our weekly programs are for children between the ages of 0-6 years old, and our family events that are on-site and/or off-site are primarily "all ages welcome". The family activity center gets our families with children with special needs out of isolation and around like-minded families.
$241,560 spent$1,100 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,245,812.
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 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $14M (+14%).
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 35% · 2018 34% · 2019 32% · 2020 53% · 2021 48% · 2022 56% · 2023 55% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $63k → $97k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER 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
SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 37% · 2021 52% · 2022 36% · 2023 68% — 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
44% of SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
93% of SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $445k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC?
- SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $919,771 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($322,440). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $919,771 in grants to SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $322,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing