Virginia · Nonprofit
The Orphanetwork
The Orphanetwork (Virginia) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,854,935 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,310,435). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What The Orphanetwork does
Mission
The mission of ORPHANetwork is to partner with the the local church to break cycles of poverty amongst highly vulnerable children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health and Feeding includes the Life Saving, Life Transforming,and Health & Nutrition programs. The Life Saving Program (LSP) provides basic needs for survival in the form of soy-fortified rice and the development of local leaders. The Life Transforming Program (LTP) provides beyond basic needs to eliminate malnutrition and establish a platform of health in the community that will ultimately break cycles of poverty. ORPHANetworks Health and Nutrition program has aligned goals and actions to six global goals that the World Health Organization has defined as priorities (stunting, anemia, low birth weight, childhood overweight, breastfeeding, and wasting). Our partners are developed through quarterly leadership development trainings so they can execute the holistic programs that are designed to break cycles of poverty while empowering them to share Jesus Christ. This program also includes leadership development initiatives.
$1,798,420 spentof which $1,022,030 as grants71% of program spendingStudents from the orphanages that we previously had relationships with have now all moved into our transition program. We committed to support these adolescents in the pursuit of their dreams of graduating from high school, becoming independent and ultimately breaking cycles of poverty. We are continuing to support these students through their college years with scholarship assistance with transportation and materials and beyond by providing funds for work internships.
$79,551 spentof which $51,043 as grants3% of program spendingTraining for a Better Future includes Job Training and the Education Program. The Job Training program empowers young adults from our partner LTPs to learn a trade and gain employment. We are equipping young adults to compete for and win the in-demand job markets in welding, construction, garment manufacturing and tourism. Our vocational job training programs create an opportunity to land jobs that provide steady income and improve the quality of life for an entire family to break the cycle of poverty once and for all. This program also includes leadership development initiatives.
$639,143 spentof which $108,363 as grants25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,517,114.
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 $2.5M to $1.9M (−26%).
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.
99% of The Orphanetwork’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Robert Cleary
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Lane Moyer
Board Chairman
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 broadened from 15 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $487k → $859k.
21 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 Orphanetwork’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 Orphanetwork has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 Orphanetwork.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 47% · 2019 26% · 2020 15% · 2021 19% · 2022 23% · 2023 28% — 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
52% of The Orphanetwork's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
56% of The Orphanetwork'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 $3.9M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 Orphanetwork is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Orphanetwork
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Orphanetwork: 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 Orphanetwork?
- The Orphanetwork (Virginia) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,854,935 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,310,435). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Orphanetwork have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $8,854,935 in grants to The Orphanetwork, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Orphanetwork?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,310,435 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Orphanetwork find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 51 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