New York · Nonprofit
The Children's Law Center
The Children's Law Center (New York) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,232,339 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($1,273,721). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $-355724
What The Children's Law Center does
Mission
To provide legal services to indigent children in contested custody/ visitation and related cases.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Children's Law Center (clc) is an interdisciplinary legal service organization that provides legal representation at the trial and appellate level for childen involved in the new york family courts. Clc is focused on advocating for vulnerable children who are experiencing complex custody, domestic violence, mental health or other issues leading to family court involvement. Our dedicated social workers provide immediate assistance and referrals to promote child-wellbeing and reduce the impact of both family dissolution and court involvement. Clc enhances youth empowerment by providing zealous advocacy for childrens rights and promotes system reform through legislative and policy work. Clc launched the childrens voice project, the only youth board in new york dedicated to providing a voice for subject children in custody, visitation, guardianship and order of protection proceedings. Clc tracks weekly intake and case volume data. Each borough and jurist maintains a mixture of virtual, hybrid and in-person proceedings. In fy24-25, clc appeared on more than 8,000 intake petitons on behalf of more than 4700 children. Clc also filled more than 40 appeal briefs and secured outcomes…
$8,994,200 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,994,200.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $16M (+599%).
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 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 98% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of The Children's Law Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Hon Liberty Aldrich
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $128k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 The Children's Law Center’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
The Children's Law Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 Law Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 37% · 2019 60% · 2020 70% · 2021 44% · 2022 37% · 2023 47% — 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
33% of The Children's Law Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
88% of The Children's Law Center'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. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Law Center receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.2M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like The Children's Law Center
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
87% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Children's Law Center: 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 The Children's Law Center?
- The Children's Law Center (New York) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,232,339 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($1,273,721). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Children's Law Center have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,232,339 in grants to The Children's Law Center, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Children's Law Center?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,273,721 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Children's Law Center 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.
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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 30 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