CHILDRENS AGENDA INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P013

Classification

1200

Street

1 S WASHINGTON ST STE 120

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• The Children's Agenda improves the health, education, and success of children by advocating for effective, equitable policies, especially for families most impacted by poverty, racism, health inequities and trauma. Many communities have programs to help children and families through direct services. To make lasting change, we need to address the root causes of why children and families need services in the first place, and to improve all children's lives, especially the most vulnerable. That's were The Children's Agenda comes in.(Continued on Schedule O)We work across systems, from local neighborhoods to the state capitol, and apply our strengths in policy-driven research, effective parent organizing, and impactful advocacy to improving children's lives and futures. This approach has yielded many wins for children, including: NYS Paid Family Leave Signed into law, supporting 117,851 families for newborn and infant care by 2022; NYS Child Poverty Reduction Act signed into law in 2021, impacting the futures of 895,000 children; 993,700 children included in the Empire State Child Credit, and the first Early Intervention rate increase in decades, benefiting 65,000 children annually. At the local level, our Very Invested Parents (VIP) group harness their lived experiences to drive the advocacy for key agenda areas and systemic reforms, especially with the Rochester City School District in areas like school-based health centers with on-site mental health counseling and restorative practices to improve school climate.

  Expenses $1,199,169

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $1,823,791

  Expenses

  $1,872,470

  Contributions

  $1,785,957

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,799,686

  Expenses

  $1,803,573

  Contributions

  $1,775,391

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,669,784

  Expenses

  $1,673,257

  Contributions

  $1,625,964

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,377,332

  Expenses

  $1,343,452

  Contributions

  $1,325,039

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,541,034

  Expenses

  $1,197,514

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,076,991

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,090,929

  Expenses

  $1,546,922

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,240,986

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,422,825

  Expenses

  $1,439,828

  Assets (EOY)

  $680,311

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,081,143

  Expenses

  $1,034,740

  Assets (EOY)

  $645,398

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,108,768

  Expenses

  $1,009,563

  Assets (EOY)

  $636,117

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,097,073

  Expenses

  $994,903

  Assets (EOY)

  $635,163

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $919,517

  Expenses

  $867,675

  Assets (EOY)

  $448,590

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $799,919

  Expenses

  $768,765

  Assets (EOY)

  $479,970

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $699,147

  Expenses

  $650,715

  Assets (EOY)

  $389,222

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $475,924

  Assets (EOY)

  $321,682

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION

  $500,000

  2023 · POVERTY RELIEF

• ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION

  $300,000

  2022 · POVERTY RELIEF

• LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC

  $250,000

  2023 · DATA EQUITY PROGRAM

• ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $181,250

  2023 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• SCHUYLER CENTER FOR ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY INC

  $175,600

  2023 · SUBCONTRACT

• ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $148,000

  2024 · ADVCY/CVL RGHTS

• SCHUYLER CENTER FOR ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY INC

  $102,000

  2022 · SUBCONTRACT

• ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $91,500

  2022 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $80,500

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICAS CHILDREN

  $65,000

  2022 · TO SUPPORT CHILD ADVOCACY WORK

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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