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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by CHILDREN FIRST INC.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2023 , filed 9 July 2025. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue
$530,487 changed to $552,235
Total expenses
$446,847 changed to $451,865
Contributions and grants received
$444,350 changed to $449,049
Program service revenue
$1,900 changed to $0
Investment income
$1,169 changed to $0
Other revenue
$83,068 changed to $103,186
Total assets, end of year
$1,390,466 changed to $1,520,313
Total liabilities, end of year
$445,769 changed to $474,110
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$944,697 changed to $1,046,203
Program services expenses
$275,237 changed to $289,111
Management and general expenses
$122,364 changed to $114,721
Fundraising expenses
$49,246 changed to $48,033
Program service expenses (Part III)
$275,237 changed to $289,111

Listed only on the earlier return

  • Lynn McGinley

Listed only on the later return

  • Amber Alexander

Totals

Total revenue
$530,487
Total expenses
$446,847
Contributions and grants received
$444,350
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$1,900
Investment income
$1,169
Other revenue
$83,068
Total assets, end of year
$1,390,466
Total liabilities, end of year
$445,769
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$944,697
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$275,237
Management and general expenses
$122,364
Fundraising expenses
$49,246
Program service expenses (Part III)
$275,237

Program services were 61.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $421,681

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $22,669

  • 2a · Program service revenue: COUNSELING FEES

    total $1,900 · related or exempt $1,900

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1,169 · related or exempt $1,169

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $115,187

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $32,119

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $83,068

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $285,774 · program services $209,340 · management and general $61,226 · fundraising $15,208

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $21,951 · program services $15,365 · management and general $3,293 · fundraising $3,293

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $381 · management and general $381

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $9,814 · program services $6,870 · management and general $1,472 · fundraising $1,472

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $35,058 · program services $24,540 · management and general $5,259 · fundraising $5,259

  • 20 · Interest

    total $14,754 · management and general $14,754

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $6,276 · program services $4,394 · management and general $941 · fundraising $941

  • 24a · Other expenses: GRANT WRITING

    total $21,206 · fundraising $21,206

  • 24b · Other expenses: CONTRACT COUNSELORS

    total $20,512 · program services $5,562 · management and general $14,950

  • 24c · Other expenses: PRIOR YEAR MISC

    total $11,505 · management and general $11,505

  • 24d · Other expenses: SUPPLIES

    total $8,038 · program services $5,626 · management and general $1,206 · fundraising $1,206

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $11,578 · program services $3,540 · management and general $7,377 · fundraising $661

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $529,235 · end of year $469,315

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $960,135

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $50,052

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $768,233 · end of year $910,083

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $11,068 · end of year $11,068

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    end of year $2,278

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $447,167 · end of year $443,491

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $839,061 · end of year $922,389

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $22,308 · end of year $22,308

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

CHILDREN FIRST FOSTERS FREEDOM AND HEALING OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT BY PROVIDING EXCEPTIONAL THERAPEUTIC SERVICES IN INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN OUR GROWING AND CHANGING COMMUNITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CHILDREN FIRST PROVIDES HOPE AND HEALING THROUGH COUNSELING AND EDUCATION FOR ALL AGES, EMPHASIZING THE PREVENTION OF AND RECOVERY FROM PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL ABUSE.

  • CHILDREN FIRST PROVIDES COUNSELING, GUIDANCE, AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED ON CHILD ABUSE, NEGLECT, AND VICTIMIZATION TO THE RESIDENTS OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS AND SURROUNDING AREAS WHO COULD NOT AFFORD THESE SERVICES OTHERWISE.

    Expenses $275,237

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Clayton Fisher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Daniel Scesney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Susana Delgado

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Don Goldsmith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Doug Bryan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Emily Liles

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Gail Wills

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Jeff Kerr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Julie Ramirez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Meagan Godfrey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Michelle Madden

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Mildred Walker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Nancy Bridges

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Prudence Mathis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Reyes Flores

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Richard Whitman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Sammie Walker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Sharon Boshart

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Shelley Whatley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Julie Debaun

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Lynn McGinley

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
11 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202423179349303042

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