New York · Nonprofit
SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN
SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN (New York) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,913,822 to it, the largest being THE THEODORE J FORSTMANN CHARITABLE TR ($5,588,541). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $58M
What Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children does
Mission
The mission of spence-chapin is to help find loving families for children whatever their needs or circumstances and provide counseling and support for all children and the families to whom they have been born or entrusted.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adoption programs:domestic adoption program: we find families for infants and children domestically. We prepare families for adoption through trainings, counseling, and support prior to and after placement. Services for birth and expectant women and families: we provide comprehensive options counseling to women and their partners who are contemplating an adoption before or after birth. Spence-chapin provides the option of interim care for the baby and provides all supplies and medical visits. For women who choose adoption, spence-chapin offers them counseling and support pre and post placement and at any time thereafter. This includes free independent legal counsel.continued on schedule ointernational adoption: we find families for children from multiple countries (south africa, colombia, jamaica, antigua and barbuda, dominica, grenada, saint lucia, and saint vincent and the grenadines), and provide training, support, and ongoing services to the family and the child.special needs adoption: we place children with significant medical challenges including, but not limited to, rare genetic disorders, chronic prenatal exposure to drug and alcohol. We provide extensive education and…
$5,179,166 spentof which $1,440,734 as grants$1,939,710 earned by the program58% of program spendingGranny and granny related programs:the agency also has a thriving granny program overseas, where we ensure children living in orphanages receive the love and attention of a dedicated primary caregiver, a "granny." the recruited grannies provide activities that nurture physical and emotional development of children residing in orphanages.
$1,803,063 spent20% of program spendingClinical services:therapy and community engagements: we provide ongoing support and therapy to all individuals connected to adoption. We build community and awareness through social and therapeutic community events and engagements for children and adults connected to adoption. Counseling and community: we provide support, education and counseling to adoptive families, adoptees, and birth parents. Programs include educational workshops, groups for young children, mentorship programs and support groups. Continued on schedule opost-adoption services: we provide personal adoption histories to individuals who meet the criteria to receive non-identifying information under the applicable state law. We offer clinical support for individual(s) who are contemplating or have been in reunion with their birth family.
$1,300,664 spent$204,953 earned by the program15% of program spendingPost adoption support services for foster care families.
$591,544 spentof which $591,544 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,874,437.
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 $55M to $64M (+17%).
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: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND 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. 6 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
Yekaterina Trambitskaya
CEO
Board chair
Ian Rowe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $63k → $2.7M.
11 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 44% · 2019 70% · 2020 22% · 2021 52% · 2022 51% · 2023 84% — 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
64% of SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
91% of SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $751k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
29%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN?
- SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN (New York) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,913,822 to it, the largest being THE THEODORE J FORSTMANN CHARITABLE TR ($5,588,541). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $7,913,822 in grants to SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN?
- THE THEODORE J FORSTMANN CHARITABLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $5,588,541 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 54 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