New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY
THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,780,024 to it, the largest being THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC ($1,196,671). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $15M
What The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey does
Mission
The mission of the children's home society of new jersey is to save children's lives and build healthy families. Chs provides at-risk children and their families with a range of culturally sensitive social services that strengthen, support and empower them to achieve their fullest potential and become productive members of society. Our goal is to give children and parents the skills they need to help themselves long after chs' active case involvement has ended.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early childhood and parenting education:chs of nj operates five head start/early head start locations, serving 507 children, with an additional 117 children served in the early head start home-based program. Head start/early head start services include early childhood education, health services, family support, mental health support, nutrition and support for children with disabilities. The children's home society of new jersey is the child care resource and referral agency for ocean county, assisting families to access child care and child care subsidies for their children and helps providers to become and stay certified. Staff provide training and technical assistance for child care providers and parents around child care, child development and safety issues.
$14,018,549 spent$230,137 earned by the program57% of program spendingMaternal child health, family and community support services:programs include prenatal health education provided in an array of culturally-sensitive services; three family success centers designed to promote family well-being while empowering families and helping them identify and build on their own strengths; supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (wic) of mercer county.
$5,646,524 spent23% of program spendingChild welfare and permanency planning:program services consist of adoption related programs offering adoption placement, home studies for prospective adoptive families, birth parent counseling, and post adoption background and search services.
$4,757,645 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,422,718.
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 2020 to 2021, from $21M to $26M (+28%).
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 88% · 2018 85% · 2019 85% · 2020 89% · 2021 85% · 2022 88% · 2023 85% · 2024 82% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Micah Parker
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $100k → $920k.
8 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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 CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
48% 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 CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 39% · 2020 28% · 2021 49% · 2022 31% · 2023 65% — 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
48% of THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
71% of THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $639k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$80.7M
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chs Charitable Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: 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 CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY?
- THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,780,024 to it, the largest being THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC ($1,196,671). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,780,024 in grants to THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY?
- THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,196,671 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 49 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