Children’s Home + Aid

What Children’s Home + Aid does

Children's Home + Aid is an Illinois-based child and family service agency headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1883, the organization operates in the human services sector and provides programs across the child welfare continuum — including foster care, adoption, family preservation, and related support services — to children and families throughout Illinois. The firmographic data classifies the entity as for-profit, but its name, scale (501-1000 employees), and funding pattern (small community-foundation grants rather than equity capital) are characteristic of a nonprofit social services provider; this discrepancy is noted but the source data is taken as given.

No product, technology, or platform architecture details are available in the source data. The organization's website content captured during data collection consisted only of a loading/verification page, so no information about proprietary tools, case-management systems, or service-delivery infrastructure could be verified. Similarly, no pricing model, go-to-motion, customer segmentation, or distribution channel data is disclosed.

From a business-model standpoint, the available evidence points to a contract-funded services model typical of the child welfare sector: government contracts (most plausibly with Illinois DCFS and county-level agencies) as the primary revenue source, supplemented by philanthropic grants — exemplified by two recorded grants from Illinois Prairie Community Foundation in 2017 ($3,500) and 2022 ($2,000). These grant amounts are immaterial to operating scale and confirm that the organization's core economics flow through service-contract revenue rather than charitable contributions. The agency has no disclosed parent company, subsidiaries, investors, or executive team in the source data, and no M&A, leadership-change, or restructuring signals were identified.

Name

Children’s Home + Aid

Website

https://childrenshomeandaid.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1883

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Children's Home + Aid is an Illinois-based child and family service agency headquartered in Chicago, founded in 1883, serving children and families across Illinois through foster care, adoption, and family preservation programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Child and Family Social Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Child and Youth Services (624110)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Family & Parenting Support Services (BPAGAEAC)

Keywords

• Child welfare services
• Family support services
• Foster care programs
• Adoption services
• Youth residential care

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Children's Home + Aid is a child and family service agency that provides foster care, adoption, residential treatment, family counseling, early childhood, and youth development services to children and families across Illinois. It operates as a private social services provider under contract with public child welfare systems and supplements program funding through philanthropic grants and donations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Foster care services Out-of-home placement and case management for children removed from their families by Illinois child welfare authorities, including recruitment, training, and support of foster families.
• Adoption services Adoption home studies, placement, and post-adoption support for children in the Illinois child welfare system seeking permanent families.
• Residential treatment services Residential and group care programs for at-risk youth who require out-of-home therapeutic placement in a structured supervised setting.
• Family counseling and preservation In-home counseling, parenting education, and family preservation services designed to keep children safely with their families and prevent entry into foster care.
• Early childhood services Early childhood education and family support programs targeting young children and their caregivers to promote school readiness and healthy development.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Direct peers

• Brightpoint: Illinois statewide child welfare and family services agency delivering foster care, adoption, and home-based support. Strong comparable on service mix, scale, and Illinois geography.
• Children's Home Society of California: Multi-service child and family welfare agency providing foster care, adoption, and family support services. Direct comparable to Children's Home + Aid in mission, service mix, and nonprofit operating model, differing primarily by geography (California vs. Illinois).
• Children's Aid Society: Large New York-based child and family services organization offering foster care, adoption, counseling, and community-based programs. Closely comparable in mission and service breadth to Children's Home + Aid, with a similar century-plus operating history.
• UCAN (Uhlich Children's Advantage Network): Chicago-based nonprofit serving children and families impacted by trauma, with foster care, counseling, and youth development programs. Direct Illinois peer with overlapping client base and service offerings.
• SOS Children's Villages Illinois: Illinois chapter of an international nonprofit providing family-like care for children in the child welfare system. Comparable in residential/foster care service model and Illinois geography, though smaller in scale.
• Maryville Academy: Illinois-based child welfare agency providing residential, foster care, and family support services. Direct regional peer operating in the same geography and child welfare service categories as Children's Home + Aid.
• Jewish Child & Family Services: Chicago-area human services agency providing counseling, child welfare, and family support to a broad clientele. Comparable in service scope and Chicago geography, though it serves a broader mandate beyond child welfare specifically.

Broad incumbents

• Bethany Christian Services: National child and family services organization offering adoption, foster care, refugee services, and family counseling. Comparable in mission and service categories, operating at national scale rather than Illinois-only.
• Catholic Charities USA: Large national federation of diocesan social service agencies providing child welfare, family support, and community services. Comparable in mission and family-services scope, though operating as a much broader umbrella organization.

Emerging players

• Youth Guidance: Chicago-based nonprofit providing school-based mentoring, counseling, and youth development programs. Adjacent peer in the Illinois child-and-family services space with overlapping client base, though focused more narrowly on school-linked programming.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/childrenhomeaid
• Facebookfacebook.com/childrenshomeandaid

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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