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STOP IT NOW INC

STOP IT NOW INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $836,134 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION RESEARCH INC ($240,683). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$398k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$836k
Net assets
$-1217497
9/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Stop It Now Inc does

Mission

To help end the sexual abuse of children by mobilizing adults, families, and communities to take actions that protect children, especially before they are ever harmed.stop it now! Programming demonstrates that: adults will act to prevent abuse, if they have access to accurate information, practical tools, and non-judgemental support; and communities will mobilize around prevention initiatives that address the complexities of abuse closer to home. Stop it now! Remains the only national organization focused exclusively on helping adults and communities protect children from sexual abuse pefore they are ever harmed- and on getting appropriate help for everyone involved.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Now! Collaborates with organizations and communities to customize and deliver our circles of safety curriculum for the purpose of creating environments where children can be free from sexual harm. The goal is to imbed effective prevention policies, practices, and programming in organizations serving children and youth.the helpline service provides training to build capacity in existing helplines to prevent child sexual abuse through increased knowledge and ability to respond to inquiries about child sexual abuse and engage adults around its prevention.now! Provides training and advising services to organizations, coalitions, and community-based programs on strategies, policies and practices for preventing child sexual abuse. As part of strategic partnerships, the organization consults long term with groups that are adapting key elements of our adult-responsibility, community-based program model.

    $497,176 spent$25,914 earned by the program
    89% of program spending
  2. Prevention education develops, assesses and distributes educational materials through the website (www.stopitnow.org), publications, trainings, and events. These help adults and professionals recognize harmful behavior and how to take action - including where to get information and resources for action. Help servicesprovides direct help to individuals with questions or concerns about child sexual abuse; online via email and our online help center (www.gethelp.stopitnow.org) and by phone through our helpline (1.888.prevent). The professionally-staffed, specialized national helpline provides confidential support, intervention strategies, and referrals in response to their questions and concerns about preventing child sexual abuse.

    $59,117 spent
    11% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $556,293.

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 ($665k) Expenses 100 ($289k) Net assets 100 ($374k)2018 Revenue 23 ($153k) Expenses 100 ($290k) Net assets 53 ($200k)2019 Revenue 16 ($108k) Expenses 117 ($337k) Net assets -8 ($-29394)2020 Revenue 15 ($99k) Expenses 106 ($308k) Net assets -64 ($-237643)2021 Revenue 52 ($348k) Expenses 128 ($371k) Net assets -70 ($-260498)2022 Revenue 45 ($299k) Expenses 153 ($442k) Net assets -108 ($-403134)2023 Revenue 39 ($262k) Expenses 162 ($468k) Net assets -163 ($-609415)2024 Revenue 41 ($273k) Expenses 221 ($640k) Net assets -261 ($-976120)2025 Revenue 60 ($398k) Expenses 221 ($639k) Net assets -325 ($-1217497)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (221)Net assets (-325)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 2023 to 2024, from $49k to $216k (+343%).

$463k
$360k
$210k
$72k
$125k
$72k
$49k
$216k
$106k
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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

92% of STOP IT NOW INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,334 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$375k
’17
−$138k
’18
−$229k
’19
−$208k
’20
−$23k
’21
−$143k
’22
−$206k
’23
−$367k
’24
−$241k
’25
1.1
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

Stephen A Girelli Phd

President/CEO

Board chair

William Woodman

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed221816151818181413
Joined·+3+0+1+6+3+2+2+3
No longer listed·72233264
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $76k → $143k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 STOP IT NOW 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

STOP IT NOW INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 STOP IT NOW INC.

29%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2019 83% · 2020 83% · 2021 39% · 2022 68% · 2023 40% — 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

50% of STOP IT NOW INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

STOP IT NOW INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.

NY
NJ
CA
NC
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k 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

STOP IT NOW INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−61% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Klingberg Comprehensive Program Services Inc · exempt
  • Klingberg Family Centers Inc · exempt
  • Klingberg Comprehensive Family Services Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds STOP IT NOW INC?
STOP IT NOW INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $836,134 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION RESEARCH INC ($240,683). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STOP IT NOW INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $836,134 in grants to STOP IT NOW INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STOP IT NOW INC?
CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION RESEARCH INC is the largest funder on record, with $240,683 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STOP IT NOW INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing