Illinois · Nonprofit
THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION
THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,847,853 to it, the largest being START EARLY ($8,894,143). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $-5732667
What The Children's Place Association does
Mission
To build a secure and hopeful today so children facing health issues and poverty succeed tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foster care program addresses the needs of children unable to return to their birth families and in need of a foster or adoptive home. The goal of the foster care program is to see that every child grows up in a stable and loving family. To that end, the staff workto reunite children with their birth families whenever possible and assist their foster families in adopting them if parentalrights are terminated. In our foster care program, 72 children received child welfare serivices and 8 children found a loving home through adoption or reunification with birth parents.
$1,849,002 spent45% of program spendingEarly education is vital for a child's future achievement, yet low-income families often lack access to early learning opportunities, especially those with children facing illness or disabilities.
$1,938,063 spentof which $772,883 as grants47% of program spendingConcentrating on the west humboldt park neighborhood, child thrive is community-directed, providing education, counseling, mentoring,afterschool programs, and health services in a high-need area of chicago's westside struggling with gun violence, economic uncertainty, and the impacts of structural racism.
$354,698 spent9% of program spendingChild and family support services offers supportive housing through 16 apartments for vulnerable households, medical case management for up to 11 adults, and family case management for up to 35 adult and children.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,141,763.
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 $2.4M to $1.9M (−20%).
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 95% · 2018 98% · 2019 72% · 2020 79% · 2021 92% · 2022 74% · 2023 69% · 2024 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
Board chair
Kristen Daihes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.6M.
10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $257k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Children's Place Association Group Return). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION’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 PLACE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 PLACE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 76% · 2019 80% · 2020 37% · 2021 81% · 2022 67% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
95% of THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Illinois 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 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
THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% 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
- Childrens Place Communiyt Living L · disregarded
- The Childrens Place Foundation · exempt
- The Childrens Place Home Health · exempt
- The Childrens Place International · exempt
- The Childrens Place Housing Corp · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: 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 PLACE ASSOCIATION?
- THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,847,853 to it, the largest being START EARLY ($8,894,143). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $11,847,853 in grants to THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION?
- START EARLY is the largest funder on record, with $8,894,143 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 29 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