Public Charity

CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE

CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE is a Public Charity headquartered in PROVIDENCE, RI. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $35.7M revenue, $35.7M expenses, $34.5M total assets. 115 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $8.1M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 050258819 PROVIDENCE, RI Human Services NTEE: P Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$35.7M
Total Expenses$35.7M
Total Assets$34.5M
Grant Records115
Funding Total$8.1M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

THE MISSION OF CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE (THE ORGANIZATION) IS TO BE THE INNOVATIVE LEADER IN IMPROVING THE WELL-BEING AND HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT OF RHODE ISLAND'S MOST VULNERABLE YOUNG CHILDREN. THEY ACCOMPLISH THIS BY PROVIDING FLEXIBLE AND EFFECTIVE CULTURALLY RELEVANT SERVICES AND ADVOCATING FOR PROGRAMS AND POLICIES THAT SUPPORT AND STRENGTHEN CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES. THE ORGANIZATION ACCOMPLISHES ITS MISSION THROUGH A VARIETY OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES.

Where $100 goes at Children's Friend and Service

How Children's Friend and Service divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$92 Programs the work itself
$5 Management running the organization
$3 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $92 for programs

$58
Family support initiativeduring 2025, there were 324 families who received home visiting services from the early head start program
63% of program spending · Reported in the filing: 324 families; 1,167 children; 114 children
$16
Health and nutrition servicesspecial supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC) is a nutrition program that provides: healthy foods, nutrition education to improve family health, breastfeeding…
17% of program spending · Reported in the filing: 5,412 children; 651 children; 354 participants
$11
Early intervention services families and children with developmental delay and/or risk and children with disabilities between the ages of birth to 3 years
12% of program spending · Reported in the filing: 770 children

Plus 1 more program. Cost per person served and the full program breakdown are on the full profile.

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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

BOARD MEMBER Ana Echevarria De Saquic
BOARD MEMBER Aneri A Patel
SECRETARY Bahjat Shariff
ASST. TREASURER (AS OF 6/25) Benjamin J Mellino
CHAIR (AS OF 6/25) Carmen A Mirabal
CHIEF OF PROGRAMS Dana Mullen

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$2,088,116 49 grants
Human & Social Services
$922,789 12 grants
Mental Health & Substance Abuse
$239,317 4 grants
Health & Medicine
$221,800 12 grants
Education
$92,952 6 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $35.7M $35.7M $34.5M
2024 $40.8M $50.3M $34.1M
2023 $37.2M $36.9M $42.9M
2022 $38.4M $35.0M $41.6M
2021 $32.3M $32.1M $41.5M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $32.3M to $35.7M (+11%), with total assets most recently reported at $34.5M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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