Tennessee · Nonprofit
Variety - the Childrens Charity International
Variety - the Childrens Charity International (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,965 to it, the largest being REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION ($43,096). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $622k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Variety - the Childrens Charity International does
Mission
We empower children who are sick, disadvantaged, or living with disabilities through life-changing programs that provide medical care, mobility, education, and support to live without limits.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
All children are special. However, variety the childrens charitys purpose is to serve children who are less fortunate children who live and grow up with a serious illness, disability or disadvantage. These are extra special children who require a special kind of help. That help is you and variety the childrens charity. Under four core programs variety the childrens charity delivers on its promise to provide a future without limits for every child, regardless of their background or ability, and to be the most trusted and effective childrens charity in the world. 1.varietys care program delivers critical life-saving medical equipment and services, healthcare and well-being to individual children and childrens health organizations. 2.varietys freedom program delivers vital life-changing equipment and services for mobility, independence and social inclusion to individual children and childrens organizations. 3.varietys future program delivers crucial life-enriching communication equipment and services, education and self-esteem to individual children and childrens organizations. 4.varietys international childrens fund delivers imperative mobility equipment for children in developing…
$580,684 spentof which $165,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $580,684.
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 $1.8M to $2.2M (+17%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Variety - the Childrens Charity International’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Caylen Santos
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $46k → $28k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Variety - the Childrens Charity International’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
Variety - the Childrens Charity International leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Variety - the Childrens Charity International.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 68% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Variety - the Childrens Charity International draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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
Variety - the Childrens Charity International holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Variety - the Childrens Charity International
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 Variety - the Childrens Charity International: 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 Variety - the Childrens Charity International?
- Variety - the Childrens Charity International (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,965 to it, the largest being REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION ($43,096). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Variety - the Childrens Charity International have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $114,965 in grants to Variety - the Childrens Charity International, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Variety - the Childrens Charity International?
- REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,096 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Variety - the Childrens Charity International find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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