Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Support Center for Child Advocates
Support Center for Child Advocates (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,658,290 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($934,518). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 110
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Support Center for Child Advocates does
Mission
The Support Center for Child Advocates, founded in 1977, is the country's oldest and largest pro bono legal and social services agency for children. Our mission is to advocate for victims of child abuse and neglect with the goal of securing safety, justice, well-being and a permanent, nurturing environment for every child.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Child advocates' comprehensive service included training volunteer attorneys to team with staff social workers and staff attorneys in the representation of children and youth in all court hearings and interagency meetings. Working in concert, staff social workers, staff attorneys and volunteer attorneys assessed each child victim's safety and needs by conducting home visits, reviewing all relevant documents, and arranging for further assessments and services. These child advocate teams also represented children who were victims of prosecuted crimes, accompanying and supporting child/victims to prepare for court and to testify in preliminary hearings and trials of alleged abusers. Child advocates served as the child's counsel and guardian ad litem as long for as the child was a party to dependency or criminal proceedings, providing continuing protection of rights, assessment, referral to services, and progression towards permanent nurturing homes. On average, child advocates represents clients for slightly more than 2 years.
$3,926,366 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,926,366.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $8.1M to $12M (+49%).
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 44% · 2021 50% · 2022 50% · 2023 43% · 2024 58% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Support Center for Child Advocates’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $457k → $1.0M.
14 of 110 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Support Center for Child Advocates’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 110 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
Support Center for Child Advocates has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
53% 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 Support Center for Child Advocates.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 16% · 2019 31% · 2020 16% · 2021 14% · 2022 12% · 2023 15% — 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
59% of Support Center for Child Advocates's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
57% of Support Center for Child Advocates's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Support Center for Child Advocates is better cushioned than half of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Support Center for Child Advocates receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $450k on record.
- Department of Justice$450k
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 Support Center for Child Advocates
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Child Advocates LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Support Center for Child Advocates: 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 Support Center for Child Advocates?
- Support Center for Child Advocates (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,658,290 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($934,518). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Support Center for Child Advocates have?
- IRS filings report 110 organizations giving $7,658,290 in grants to Support Center for Child Advocates, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Support Center for Child Advocates?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $934,518 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Support Center for Child Advocates find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 110 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