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THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC

THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,294,478 to it, the largest being SCHMIDT-MESSMER PERPCHARTW XXXXX6009 ($406,514). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$21M
Funders on record
75
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$47M
49/75 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What The Whas Crusade for Children Inc does

Mission

The whas crusade for children makes life better for children with identified health care, educational, and emotional wellness needs by inspiring generosity with our community partners.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide financial aid for organizations in the kentucky and southern indiana areas that serves children with indentified health care, educational, and emotional wellness needs.

    $6,053,374 spentof which $5,890,190 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,053,374.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.9M) Expenses 100 ($6.4M) Net assets 100 ($23M)2018 Revenue 84 ($7.5M) Expenses 104 ($6.7M) Net assets 109 ($25M)2019 Revenue 77 ($6.8M) Expenses 106 ($6.8M) Net assets 107 ($25M)2020 Revenue 59 ($5.2M) Expenses 91 ($5.8M) Net assets 110 ($26M)2021 Revenue 91 ($8.1M) Expenses 95 ($6.1M) Net assets 150 ($35M)2022 Revenue 106 ($9.4M) Expenses 97 ($6.3M) Net assets 139 ($33M)2023 Revenue 115 ($10M) Expenses 116 ($7.4M) Net assets 159 ($37M)2024 Revenue 239 ($21M) Expenses 107 ($6.9M) Net assets 199 ($47M)
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Revenue (239)Expenses (107)Net assets (199)

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 $32M to $41M (+30%).

$31M
$33M
$32M
$32M
$41M
$39M
$45M
$54M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.4M
’17
$797k
’18
$47k
’19
−$604k
’20
$2.0M
’21
$3.1M
’22
$2.8M
’23
$14M
’24
17
months of
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

Dawn Lee

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2125312928242424
Joined·+5+11+5+2+0+6+6
No longer listed·1573466
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $138k → $496k.

16 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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 WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

54% 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 WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC.

12%
largest funder
34%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 19% · 2021 14% · 2022 17% · 2023 23% — 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

45% of THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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

73% of THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
DE
AZ
TN
NC
TX
FL

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

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’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $983k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC

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 Kentucky

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 11%Fundraising 7%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC?
THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,294,478 to it, the largest being SCHMIDT-MESSMER PERPCHARTW XXXXX6009 ($406,514). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC have?
IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $3,294,478 in grants to THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC?
SCHMIDT-MESSMER PERPCHARTW XXXXX6009 is the largest funder on record, with $406,514 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 75 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