Texas · Nonprofit
SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN
SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,716,045 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($1,325,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Spaulding for Children does
Mission
To transform the lives of children in need of safe and nurturing permanent families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The post adoption/post permanency programs provided individual, family, and group counseling; respite; residential treatment; and case management services to 752 children and their families. These services are designed to resolve issues related to prior trauma, to strengthen family functioning, and to increase the quality of life for all family members to ensure that each adoptive/post permanency family remains intact.
$1,838,223 spentof which $39,273 as grants$1,573,282 earned by the program51% of program spendingThe foster care program provided 8,223 hours of foster care for 53 children.
$1,278,605 spent$901,612 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe foster care adoption program recruited, screened, educated, prepared, and united families with 15 children who were waiting in the foster care system.
$466,603 spent$48,000 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,583,431.
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 $1.8M to $2.8M (+56%).
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: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% 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.
Chief executive
Dejuana Jernigan
President/CEO
Board chair
Whitney Cox
Board member - chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $552k → $608k.
8 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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). Top 30 of 46 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
SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
81% 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 37% · 2018 41% · 2019 35% · 2020 28% · 2021 21% · 2022 18% · 2023 25% — 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
65% of SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
69% of SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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 Texas
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
70%
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 (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,716,045 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($1,325,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $5,716,045 in grants to SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN, 29 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 $1,325,000 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 Texas. 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 46 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