Florida · Nonprofit
THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC
THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC (Florida) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,388,798 to it, the largest being HEALTHY START COALITION OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY INC ($15,229,373). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What The Children's Home Inc does
Mission
To unlock the potential of at-risk children and families by providing compassionate and effective services that create opportunities for success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Prevention and intervention services:the supporting and empowering educational and developmental services (seeds) program is a multi-disciplinary intervention team composed of schools, community, and family representatives. The primary goal of seeds is to ensure children: 1) are ready for kindergarten; 2) are promoted at the end of the school year; and 3) are reading on level by third grade. These goals are accomplished by working together with the family to support the child's development, educational, and social needs so he or she can successfully function at home, school, and in the community.(continued on schedule o)the seeds team utilizes strength-based planning to support the child and the family by combining the strengths of the family, school system, community services, and existing family supports. Seeds collaborates with the hillsborough county elementary schools across the county to provide children and families with the help they need to overcome some of life's obstacles. Seeds served a total 1,584 children and parents (799 children + 785 adults).kinship is a program available to family members caring for a relative's child(ren) in broward, dade, hillsborough, orange,…
$13,154,518 spentof which $163,524 as grants$99,741 earned by the program59% of program spendingResidential services:children's home network (chn) operates a therapeutic residential program, kid's village serving up to 54 children ages 6-17 all of whom have been removed from their families due to abuse and/or neglect. As a result of their life experiences, our children and youth have all been traumatized and demonstrate emotional and behavioral challenges that preclude them from a successful placement in a licensed foster home.(continued on schedule o)chn provides every child with safety, stability, and quality care by trained childcare staff, mental health services and an evidenced based model for behavioral support, on-site nurse and psychiatric services as well as linkage to medical, dental and vision care, nutritious and well-balanced meals, structured and diverse activities on and off campus, a youth employment program for our teens and intensive educational support to include on-site tutoring and a state-of-the-art learning center. Education is prioritized and all our youth attend school or are enrolled in a ged or job training program. Through our program for youth with developmental disabilities, chn is able to provide aba supports in addition to our other robust…
$5,961,897 spentof which $107,069 as grants$545,031 earned by the program27% of program spendingFoster care support services:children's home network (chn) recruits and licenses quality foster homes in hillsborough, pasco and pinellas counties and provides specialized therapeutic foster care overlay services in polk, highland and hardee counties to serve children that have been removed from their families due to abuse or neglect. Chn's capacity continues to grow, and we currently support over 130 foster homes and serve an average of 160 foster children, ages 0-17, on any given day. We believe that children in foster care are best served in a stable, family-like setting and with their siblings whenever possible. Chn foster families provide safety and excellent care where children heal from their trauma. (continued on schedule o)in addition to traditional and specialized foster care in pasco and pinellas counties chn recruits and licenses safe foster homes for victims of human trafficking and operates a crisis response team for foster youth have been victims of human trafficking.our foster families are skilled parents and strong advocates for their foster children, functioning as a member of the child's case management team. Foster families co-parent with the child's birth…
$3,157,307 spentof which $936,324 as grants$1,158,554 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,273,722.
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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $14M (+18%).
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: 2017 49% · 2018 46% · 2019 44% · 2020 33% · 2021 28% · 2022 32% · 2023 34% · 2024 35% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Irene Rickus
President & CEO
Board chair
Kalei Mcelroy Blair
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $5.4M.
12 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Children's Home Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 90% · 2019 66% · 2020 81% · 2021 68% · 2022 59% · 2023 60% — 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
39% of THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
96% of THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $896k 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
THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $445k on record.
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $444k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $1k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $14
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 THE CHILDREN'S HOME 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 Florida
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
100%
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 5 related entities
- The Children's Home Community Inc · exempt
- The Children's Home Community Based Care Inc · exempt
- The Children's Home Properties Inc · exempt
- The Children's Home Foundation Inc · exempt
- Perpetual Trust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC?
- THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC (Florida) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,388,798 to it, the largest being HEALTHY START COALITION OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY INC ($15,229,373). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $29,388,798 in grants to THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC?
- HEALTHY START COALITION OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,229,373 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDREN'S HOME INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 57 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