Texas · Nonprofit
THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER
THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER (Texas) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,787,391 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ($5,069,385). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What The Children's Shelter does
Mission
Provide a safe trauma focused place for children in crisis, restoring innocence while strengthening families to break the cycle of abuse.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Behavioral health solutionshope center: the harvey e. Najim hope center is an outpatient behavioral/mental health clinic providing a continuum of trauma-informed care for children in bexar county who are suffering traumatic and emotional disorders because of prolonged abuse, neglect or abandonment. The hope center offers accessible, specialized programs by licensed counselors, psychiatrists, and social workers in a loving, safe environment.
$1,601,717 spentof which $46,554 as grants25% of program spendingChild welfare solutionsfoster care: the shelter is licensed by, and receives funding from, the texas department of family and protective services as a child placing agency. The Children's Shelter offers and coordinates foster family services, partnering with couples and individuals who can provide temporary care for children removed from their birth families due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. The shelter provides the required training and licensing for prospective foster parents and individuals interested in foster care. The shelter also provides the same services for kinship homes, homes providing full-time care, nurturing and protection of children by relatives or significant adults.adoption: the shelter recruits and trains adoptive parents. This program provides support to children and adoptive families during every phase of the adoption process. Support includes regular shelter visits, facilitation of a support group that meets regularly, and a published newsletter with helpful information.
$1,937,616 spentof which $726,648 as grants30% of program spendingFamily strengthening and prevention servicesnurse family partnership: the nurse-family partnership is an evidence-based voluntary prevention program providing nurse shelter visitation services to any woman who is low income and pregnant with her first child. Registered nurses provide support, education, and counseling on health, behavioral, and self-sufficiency issues throughout pregnancy, infancy, and continuing until the child reaches the age of two.compadre y compadre: compadre y compadre is a 15-week parenting program that provides men in a fatherhood role the opportunity to learn valuable, life-changing skills as father, provider, teacher, and hero. While most participants are referred to the program from child protective services or the court system, some participate voluntarily seeking the chance to become a stronger and more nurturing parent. Programming is tailored for any male in a caregiving role, taught by an all-male staff. After the 15-week class is completed, all graduates have the opportunity to register for an additional 10-week class to become a compadre mentor.iparent: iparent sa is a comprehensive parenting and family strengthening program with immediate and…
$2,674,797 spentof which $133,165 as grants41% of program spendingDirect care serviceseffective june 30, 2021, family tapestry terminated the bexar county single source continuum contract (sscc) from the texas department of family and protective services (dfps) to implement community based care in region 8a-bexar county that had been awarded to The Children's Shelter. The program was a result of the texas legislature's directive in 2017 for dfps to expand the community's role to meet the challenges of serving children in foster care under foster care redesign. Community based care is a new way of providing foster care and case management services. It is a community-based approach to meeting the individual and unique needs of children, youth, and families, within a geographic service area. The whataburger center for children and youth provided temporary residential care for children and youth up to age 17, and young adults up to age 22 in a therapeutic 20-bed facility with round-the-clock care. Children and youth served by the emergency shelter may have been discharged from a psychiatric hospital, released from juvenile detention, had emotional disorders and challenging behaviors, and complex medical needs. The emergency shelter zachry cottage,…
$262,876 spent$920 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,477,006.
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 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $2.3M (−84%).
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 58% · 2018 40% · 2020 94% · 2021 8% · 2022 45% · 2023 56% · 2024 56% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER’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. 6 of the last 8 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
Larhesa Moon
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 27 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.3M.
13 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $458k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Children's Shelter Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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 SHELTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% 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 SHELTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 38% · 2019 53% · 2020 41% · 2021 33% · 2022 35% · 2023 36% — 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
43% of THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
97% of THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 SHELTER's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
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 SHELTER
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 Texas
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
98%
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
- The Children's Shelter Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: 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 SHELTER?
- THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER (Texas) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,787,391 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ($5,069,385). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $16,787,391 in grants to THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER?
- UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $5,069,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 82 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