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The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children

The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children (Massachusetts) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,062,746 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,119,705). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.1M
Revenue FY2025
113
Funders on record
$6.1M
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
68/113 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%

Against its field

The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve6.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 107 ($1.5M) Expenses 104 ($1.3M) Net assets 109 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 125 ($1.7M) Expenses 111 ($1.4M) Net assets 123 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 140 ($1.9M) Expenses 124 ($1.5M) Net assets 141 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 138 ($1.9M) Expenses 141 ($1.7M) Net assets 148 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 150 ($2.1M) Expenses 150 ($1.8M) Net assets 158 ($3.8M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (150)Expenses (150)Net assets (158)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$162k
20
$216k
21
$363k
22
$416k
23
$183k
24
$232k
25
6.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $329k → $958k.

17 of 113 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)50% 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 Room Center for Grieving Children’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 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 Room Center for Grieving Children has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

59% 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 Room Center for Grieving Children.

18%
largest funder
33%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 22% · 2019 37% · 2020 19% · 2021 24% · 2022 13% · 2023 12%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

58% of The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

50% of The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.0M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
NH
MN
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
DE
AZ
NC
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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19
20
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23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 113 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 11%Fundraising 21%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children?
The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children (Massachusetts) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,062,746 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,119,705). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children have?
IRS filings report 113 organizations giving $6,062,746 in grants to The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,119,705 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 113funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing