Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,438,153 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ($3,088,757). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center does
Mission
Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising practices, policies and partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Client advocacy services program: safe shores' client advocacy services program is a child victim's first point of contact with safe shores. It works with children and their non-offending caregivers throughout the continuum of services. This means helping them access critical information, short- and long-term resources, and tailored, individualized support as these young crime victims and their caregivers move toward healing, reclaiming their sense of agency and self-efficacy, and restoring their sense of trust and hope. The client advocacy services program provides crisis support, ongoing advocacy, follow-up, referrals to community services, and information on crime victims' rights and programs to assist crime victims. Through this program, safe shores also provides child victims and their families with new transitional clothing, meals, and emergency financial assistance.
$1,290,667 spent33% of program spendingClinical services: safe shores' clinical services program helps families on the road to healing from trauma and abuse by providing evidence-based trauma-informed mental health services. Within the framework of trauma- focused cognitive behavioral therapy (tfcbt) the clinical services team provides a safe space for children to identify and overcome challenges, develop positive coping skills and build healthy relationships through talk therapy, play therapy, art therapy, sand-tray therapy and other modalities provided to child victims, their non-offending caregivers, and siblings. During fy2020, the clinical services program provided 1,162 therapy sessions to 32 children and provided 1,172 consultations with parents/caregivers, serving 75 children and 90 caregivers.
$795,678 spent20% of program spendingForensic services: safe shores' forensic services program (fsp)coordinates and conducts neutral, fact-finding and developmentally-sensitive (forensic) interviews with children affected by abuse and child witnesses to violence on behalf of fellow multidisciplinary team member agencies. The goal of forensic interviews is to ensure that childrens' voices are heard and to minimize the number of times a child must recount any incident of abuse. Forensic services also supports multidisciplinary team collaboration, updating protocols and ensuring best practices. In fy 2019, 702 forensic interviews were conducted by safe shores, with children as young as three-years-old up to adolescents aged 17. On occasion upon request by law enforcement, fsp conducts forensic interviews with intellectually disabled adults.
$718,949 spent18% of program spendingTeen advocacy initiative adolescents between the ages of 13 to 17 who have been sexually assaulted in the district of columbia have the right to an advocate pursuant to dc's sexual assault and victims' rights amendment act of 2019. Safe shores teen advocates are on call around the clock to be dispatched to help teen survivors in the midst of crisis understand their options and support them in their choices. Teen advocates travel to where the survivors is--at a hospital or elsewhere in the community, as soon as the crime is reported. Examples of the support a teen advocate might provide include referrals to medical care, mental health care, or legal aid. Prevention and outreach program - safe shores' prevention and outreach program is rooted in the belief that adults are the first line of defense in protecting children from abuse. Deploying evidence-informed training curricula and also by participating in community events to provide basic information to the public, safe shores provides adults who work with and/or care for children in various settings with information about the impact of child abuse and child trauma and equips them with skills to recognize, respond to, and prevent…
$1,131,331 spent29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,936,625.
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 $2.6M to $3.4M (+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 60% · 2018 61% · 2019 61% · 2020 64% · 2021 70% · 2022 67% · 2023 79% · 2024 76% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Maegan Scott
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $429k → $746k.
6 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER’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 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 82% · 2019 60% · 2020 50% · 2021 71% · 2022 75% · 2023 63% — 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
36% of THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
74% of THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER?
- THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,438,153 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ($3,088,757). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $5,438,153 in grants to THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER?
- WASHINGTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,088,757 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing