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Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center (Alabama) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,268,668 to it, the largest being ALABAMA NETWORK OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS INC ($691,798). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$645k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$994k
5/12 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center does

Mission

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide therapy services (individual, group, and play therapy) for child victims. Support groups are also provided for children and adults.

    $120,263 spent
    30% of program spending
  2. Services are offered for children in elementary and intermediate schools with age-appropriate intervention programs. Programs are also presented to civic, community, and church groups about the services, including information and statistics about child abuse and neglect.

    $121,733 spent
    30% of program spending
  3. Forensic/fact-finding interviews are conducted. The center coordinates the Shelby County Multidisciplinary Team and the Shelby County Child Death Review Team.

    $158,075 spent
    40% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $400,071.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($354k) Expenses 100 ($333k) Net assets 100 ($413k)2018 Revenue 99 ($349k) Expenses 112 ($372k) Net assets 94 ($390k)2019 Revenue 123 ($435k) Expenses 119 ($395k) Net assets 104 ($428k)2020 Revenue 129 ($456k) Expenses 119 ($396k) Net assets 118 ($487k)2021 Revenue 27 ($95k) Expenses 34 ($112k) Net assets 130 ($536k)2022 Revenue 142 ($501k) Expenses 134 ($447k) Net assets 160 ($662k)2023 Revenue 133 ($469k) Expenses 133 ($443k) Net assets 167 ($688k)2024 Revenue 201 ($710k) Expenses 168 ($559k) Net assets 195 ($804k)2025 Revenue 182 ($645k) Expenses 155 ($516k) Net assets 241 ($994k)
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Revenue (182)Expenses (155)Net assets (241)Peer revenue range

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 $819k to $1.0M (+24%).

$432k
$414k
$467k
$561k
$607k
$674k
$736k
$819k
$1.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 80% · 2018 82% · 2019 83% · 2020 87% · 2021 85% · 2022 73% · 2023 86% · 2024 67% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
−$23k
’18
$40k
’19
$59k
’20
−$17k
’21
$54k
’22
$26k
’23
$151k
’24
$128k
’25
15
months of
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

Catherine Alexander-Wright

Exec. Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181515141114101016
Joined·+2+0+3+4+6+7+0+6
No longer listed·504731100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $132k → $132k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center.

55%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 51% · 2019 47% · 2020 42% · 2021 37% · 2022 54% · 2023 52% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

DC
AL
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

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 Alabama

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 17%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center?
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center (Alabama) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,268,668 to it, the largest being ALABAMA NETWORK OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS INC ($691,798). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,268,668 in grants to Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center?
ALABAMA NETWORK OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $691,798 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 12 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