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CHILDRENS ROOM - CENTER FOR GREIVING CHILDREN & TEENAGERS INC

EIN 04-3316013 ARLINGTON, MA

Revenue 2024
$2,065,712
Expenses 2024
$1,834,205

Program services were 68.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1000
Street
1210 MASSACHUSETTS AVE

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

The Childrens Room creates safe, supportive commuities so that no child, teen or family has to grieve alone.

  • The Childrens Rooms mission is to create safe, supportive communities so that no child, teen, or family has to grieve alone. We provide free, peer-based grief support to children, teens, and their caregivers following the death of a parent, child, or sibling. Services are offered at our Arlington center as well as in schools and community settings throughout eastern Massachusetts. Our programs include Peer Support Groups for children and teens ages 3 to 18 and their caregivers; grief support groups designed specifically for teens; psychoeducational series for parents and caregivers; arts-based family programs; professional education and training; information and referral services; and individual consultations. All services are offered at no cost, recognizing that grief and loss are often accompanied by financial hardship. During FY25, The Childrens Room served 675 children, teens, and adults through direct grief support programming, reached 968 professionals through training and consultation, partnered with 21 schools and community organizations to provide peer support to students, and responded to 602 information and referral inquiries from families and professionals.

    Expenses $1,257,222

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.

  • Jon Gay

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $171,998
    From this org
    $167,242
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,756
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,242
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,756
    Filer's total
    $171,998

  • Angelo Firenze

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alan Fanger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joy Fisher-Williams

    SFC Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Lazarus

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christine Tangishaka

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emmanuel Ebot

    Gov Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anne Favaloro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Iroso Onamade

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carol Gildea

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Parmpreet Kalsi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ed Orazem

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sam Peper

    Treasurer & Finance Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John DeCecca

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Crissy Straub

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,065,712
    Expenses
    $1,834,205
    Contributions
    $1,971,329
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,899,558
    Expenses
    $1,716,920
    Contributions
    $1,785,715
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,927,923
    Expenses
    $1,512,351
    Contributions
    $1,867,589
    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
    $1,721,154
    Expenses
    $1,358,626
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,640,749

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,480,215
    Expenses
    $1,264,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,212,016

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,380,720
    Expenses
    $1,219,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,221,765

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.

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

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.