Michigan · Nonprofit
Spaulding for Children
Spaulding for Children (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,735,786 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($1,387,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What Spaulding for Children does
Mission
In partnership with diverse communities, Spaulding for Children's mission is to develop and integrate revolutionary and innovative programs that provide families the support needed to enhance the care of children and youth with the pursuit of permanency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Child and Family Services (CFS)During the last year, Spaulding for Children was able to return 12 children home. This was an increase of one child from the previous year. An additional two children were able to secure permanency through a guardianship with a relative. Lastly, 10 children achieved permanency through adoption. The agency was able to work with over 110 families.
$3,911,071 spent$3,977,367 earned by the program30% of program spendingSpaulding Institute and AcademyThe Academy and the Institute had a total of 4 federal grants over the past year. One project focuses on increasing kinship support and shared parenting in Macomb County. Another project has several sites working on youth engagement practices. There is an extension of a project to support implementation and training of new foster and adopt parents across the nation. We have a project focused on supporting sites to improve their post-permanency services. Two projects are both subawards, one focused on leadership development for adoption professionals and another on training hospital staff on adoption sensitivity.
$8,960,126 spent70% of program spendingScholarships for Children formerly served by the OrganizationSpaulding for Children provides scholarship funds to support youth interested in higher education or to assist with trade related programs. This year we sent applications to eligible people but did not receive any completed applications. No awards were provided.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,871,197.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.6M to $12M (+35%).
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 64% · 2018 73% · 2019 76% · 2020 57% · 2021 52% · 2022 57% · 2023 61% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of Spaulding for Children’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Melissa Jenovai
President/CEO
Board chair
Kristi Plain
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $180k → $243k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Spaulding for Children’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
Spaulding for Children leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 Spaulding for Children.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 65% · 2022 63% · 2023 64% — 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 Spaulding for Children's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
Spaulding for Children draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k 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.
Against its field
Spaulding for Children runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Spaulding for Children receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $64.8M on record — $64.8M federal, $808 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$64.8M
- NJ$650
- VT$158
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Spaulding for Children
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Spaulding for Children: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Spaulding for Children?
- Spaulding for Children (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,735,786 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($1,387,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Spaulding for Children have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,735,786 in grants to Spaulding for Children, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Spaulding for Children?
- DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION is the largest funder on record, with $1,387,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Spaulding for Children find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 11 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