CHILDRENS AID CLUB

EIN 59-6194364 FT LAUDERDALE, FL

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Revenue 2024: $356,262
Expenses 2024: $303,868

Program services were 96.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 1000
Street: 3296 N FEDERAL HWY UNIT 11503

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 · 2024

Mission

Our purpose is to help fill the gap for countless children in South Florida whose needs are not always met by existing social service programs. We accomplish this by intervening to assist children and their families suffering from medical, financial, and social hardships.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Our purpose is to help fill the gap for countless children in South Florida whose needs are not always met by existing social service programs.

Organizations - Children's Aid Club ("CAC") partnered with 25 organizations with budgets from $1,000 to $17,500 depending on their specific needs. Spending of budgeted funds is monitored by individual CAC member liaisons who keep in contact with the organizations. Examples include shopping for and assembling 24 layettes each month for at-risk newborns of low-income mothers; purchasing diapers and wipes for a local soup kitchen; purchasing car seats for newborns; sponsoring recognition and learning incentive programs at three schools in low- income areas; providing a school uniform to 1,100 needy students; providing gas cards and food cards for families of children receiving cancer treatment; and providing funds for children's bereavement support and family trauma programs. An additional two organizations were helped through our Special Request Fund for special projects submitted by our members and approved by the Welfare Committee, the governing body and the general membership.

Expenses $197,724
Individuals - Children's Aid Club provided assistance to 17 families throughout the year, including 50 children and 26 adults by providing rent, utilities, car insurance payments, beds, household items, gas cards and food cards. CAC also provided shelter in a hotel for a single mother and her four children who were living in their car for three months.

Expenses $27,812
Holiday Baskets - Children's Aid Club assembled and distributed baskets for three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. The families are submitted by the organizations we support. The Thanksgiving basket consisted of a book about the holiday and food cards worth $19,850. The number of food cards given was based on the size of the family. Baskets were distributed to 100 families with 315 children and 100 adults. In September, a letter was sent to those on our mailing list as part of our Holiday Appeal. Donations were requested and donors were asked if they wished to adopt a family for Christmas shopping. From that mailing, 14 individuals and 29 members volunteered to adopt a family. It was suggested that gifts of clothing, two or three toys and a book be considered. In addition, food cards were included in each basket in the total amount of $13,750, and each child received a $25 Target card. For the Christmas holiday, 75 families received baskets, including 228 children and 138 adults. For Easter, the baskets consisted of Easter candy and food cards worth $17,255, and each child also received a $25 Target card. Easter Baskets were distributed to 97 families with 284 children and 170 adults. In all, CAC provided holiday cheer to 272 families with 827 children and 408 adults.

Expenses $66,983 · Revenue $17,568

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Laura Balistreri

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
Linda Ianelli

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Pam Markus

Recording Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Barbara Hume

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

10
Valerie Taylor

Membership

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Belinda McDonald

Ways and Means

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
Kristina Bryn

Welfare

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Pam Ferrante

Parliamentarian

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Janice Bloomfield

Corresponding Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$356,262

Expenses

$303,868

Contributions

$230,444

Grants paid

$292,519
2023

Revenue

$285,456

Expenses

$337,293

Contributions

$181,761

Grants paid

$319,927
2022

Revenue

$365,483

Expenses

$330,351

Contributions

$284,650

Grants paid

$319,434
2022

Revenue

$365,483

Expenses

$338,447

Contributions

$284,650

Grants paid

$327,530
2022

Revenue

$365,483

Expenses

$338,447

Contributions

$240,288

Grants paid

$327,530

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$356,262	$303,868	$230,444	$292,519
2023	$285,456	$337,293	$181,761	$319,927
2022	$365,483	$330,351	$284,650	$319,434
2022	$365,483	$338,447	$284,650	$327,530
2022	$365,483	$338,447	$240,288	$327,530

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

$254,410

Expenses

$232,731

Assets (EOY)

$423,969
2020 · 990

Revenue

$217,433

Expenses

$217,571

Assets (EOY)

$402,253
2020 · 990

Revenue

$217,433

Expenses

$217,571

Assets (EOY)

$402,253
2019 · 990

Revenue

$182,458

Expenses

$208,952

Assets (EOY)

$407,121
2018 · 990

Revenue

$209,413

Expenses

$201,610

Assets (EOY)

$427,009
2017 · 990

Revenue

$189,137

Expenses

$170,870

Assets (EOY)

$419,206
2017 · 990

Revenue

$189,137

Expenses

$170,870

Assets (EOY)

$419,206
2016 · 990

Revenue

$248,634

Expenses

$169,705

Assets (EOY)

$400,939
2014 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$177,879

Expenses

$136,688

Assets (EOY)

$283,072
2013 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$103,130

Expenses

$130,389

Assets (EOY)

$241,880

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$254,410	$232,731	$423,969
2020	990	$217,433	$217,571	$402,253
2020	990	$217,433	$217,571	$402,253
2019	990	$182,458	$208,952	$407,121
2018	990	$209,413	$201,610	$427,009
2017	990	$189,137	$170,870	$419,206
2017	990	$189,137	$170,870	$419,206
2016	990	$248,634	$169,705	$400,939
2014	990-EZ	$177,879	$136,688	$283,072
2013	990-EZ	$103,130	$130,389	$241,880

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

Back to Basics Inc

$27,500

2022
Tomorrow's Rainbow

$21,000

2022
Children's Diagnostic Center

$18,549

2022
God's Little Lambs

$17,708

2022
Henderson Behavioral Health

$16,793

2022
Broward Partnership For the Homeless

$14,600

2022
The Little Schoolhouse

$13,328

2022
Cypress Elementary

$12,869

2022
DonorsChoose

$10,000

2022
North Side Elementary

$9,958

2022

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTY

$10,000

2024 YOUTH HUMAN SERVICES
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$5,500

2022 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$5,200

2024 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
DELIVERING GOOD INC

$0

2022 POVERTY ASSISTANCE

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.