Massachusetts · Nonprofit
STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC
STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,117,569 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($2,023,200). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Strategies for Children Inc does
Mission
Founded in 2001, strategies for children (sfc) is a privately funded policy organization that leverages its core strengths in policy development and monitoring, constituency building and partnerships, research, advocacy, communications/outreach, and practice at both the local and state levels to achieve its goals. Sfc's mission is to ensure that massachusetts invests the resources needed for all children, from birth to age five, to access high-quality early education programs that prepare them for success in school and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sfc made numerous organizational improvements and policy/advocacy advances in fiscal year 2025. Highlights include: - led advocacy for massachusetts department of early education and care's fy26 budget appropriation, a historic high of 1.68 billion (a 180 million, 12% increase over the fy24 budget two years prior. - monitored federal administration proposals and policy changes and responded strategically by sharing timely information and resources with our early childhood community. - grew sfc's board of directors to 10 members, including 9 new members since 2024. - completed a strategic planning process to guide the next 3 years of our work. - launched a new strategisforchildren.org website. - celebrated 5 years of "the 9:30 call." - launched the new early childhood policy pathways fellowship. - continued hosting the early childhood agenda, evolving its structure for greater impact and community engagement. - graduated cohort 4 of our advocacy network for early childhood.
$744,680 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $744,680.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.0M to $3.3M (+63%).
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.
98% of STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Sally Fuller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $118k → $826k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN 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
STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 58% · 2019 43% · 2020 27% · 2021 34% · 2022 43% · 2023 30% — 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
86% of STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC?
- STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,117,569 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($2,023,200). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $5,117,569 in grants to STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,023,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing