Georgia · Nonprofit
TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $604,225 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF TOOMBS & MONTGOMERY ($542,361). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $670k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $604k
- Net assets
- $919k
What Tlc Children's Services Inc does
Mission
The mission of tlc children's services is to provide supportive services to abused and neglected children and their families, to improve outcomes for children, and to support children in having safe, permanent forever families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide trained, screened, supervised community volunteers to advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children in juvenile court deprivation proceedings.
$552,781 spentof which $5,576 as grants$5,445 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $552,781.
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 2021 to 2022, from $622k to $757k (+22%).
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 86% · 2018 86% · 2019 72% · 2020 75% · 2021 90% · 2022 88% · 2023 84% · 2024 82% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Sherri Howard
Executive director
Board chair
Thalia Gillis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $65k → $71k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 78% · 2023 97% — 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
50% of TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% 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
98% of TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC is better cushioned than half of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: 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 TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC?
- TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $604,225 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF TOOMBS & MONTGOMERY ($542,361). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $604,225 in grants to TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF TOOMBS & MONTGOMERY is the largest funder on record, with $542,361 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 9 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