Covenant Childrens Home

What Covenant Childrens Home does

Covenant Children's Home (CCH) is a faith-based, non-profit residential foster care ministry headquartered in Dunnellon, Florida, on the state's Nature Coast. Founded in the early 2000s and operationally active since 2009, the organization operates two licensed foster homes — the original "Faith House" (opened 2009) and the second "Hope House" (opened 2021) — that together serve children in crisis on the Nature Coast, with a stated 2025 focus on keeping sibling groups together under the care of dedicated Christian house-parent couples. CCH positions itself as a Christ-centered alternative to institutional foster care, emphasizing a traditional Mom-and-Dad family model, individualized attention (capacity was reduced from a combined 14 to 12 per home in 2025), and a serene coastal setting as a backdrop for healing.

The core "products" are the two residential foster homes, delivered by hired, experienced married couples serving as full-time House Parents under a Direct Care Staff program, and supplemented by a volunteer and community engagement program, a recurring themed in-kind donation drive, a PayPal-hosted online donation channel, periodic Executive Director PDF communications, and a Stories blog. There is no proprietary technology, software platform, or AI capability — the underlying infrastructure is conventional: licensed homes, human staff, a basic informational website with a hosted PayPal donate button, an email newsletter signup, and an Instagram feed.

CCH is funded entirely through charitable giving and in-kind contributions; no equity, debt, grant, or venture funding is disclosed. Child placements are sourced through a flagship referral partnership with Kid's Central Inc., the regional child-welfare agency listed on the homepage, while donors, prayer partners, and community supporters are engaged directly via the website, speaking events, and local faith-community networks (notably Springs Presbyterian Church and Seven Rivers Presbyterian Church). Revenue mechanics are therefore donation-driven, not transactional, and the organization's customer base is effectively two-sided: the children and child-welfare partners it serves, and the donor and volunteer community that funds and supports the ministry.

Name

Covenant Childrens Home

Legal name

Covenant Children's Home

Website

https://covenantchildrenshome.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Covenant Children's Home is a faith-based non-profit that operates two licensed residential foster homes — Faith House and Hope House — on the Nature Coast of Florida, serving children in crisis, with a focus on keeping sibling groups together under the care of Christian house-parent couples and funded by charitable donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dunnellon

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations: Charitable donations collected via PayPal (hosted button). Themed monthly in-kind donation drives (e.g., March & April are health, bath & accessory donations months) supplement cash contributions.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Covenant Children's Home operates two licensed residential foster homes on the Nature Coast of Florida — Faith House (opened 2009) and Hope House (opened 2021) — providing Christ-centered, family-style residential care to children in crisis, with an explicit focus on keeping sibling groups together under the supervision of dedicated Christian house-parent couples. The homes serve up to 12 children each from 2025 onward, supported by recurring themed in-kind donation drives, online PayPal giving, volunteer engagement, and partnerships with child-welfare agencies such as Kid's Central Inc.

Product overview

Covenant Children's Home is a faith-based, single-ministry organization (not a modular software platform) operating two residential foster homes on the Nature Coast of Florida: the original "Faith House" (opened 2009) and the second "Hope House" (opened 2021). Together these core service offerings form a unified foster-care ministry licensed to serve children in crisis, with a stated 2025 focus on keeping sibling groups together in homes staffed by dedicated Christian house-parent couples under the "Direct Care Staff Program." Supporting products and services include the "Volunteer & Community Engagement Program," the recurring themed "Donation Program" (with PayPal online giving), "Executive Director Communications" (periodic PDF newsletters from Kimberly Habedank), and a "Stories Blog" (RSS) sharing life inside the homes. The overall offering is best described as a residential-care ministry with a portfolio of communication, fundraising, and volunteer-engagement offerings wrapped around the two core foster homes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Faith House (residential foster home) Faith House is the original licensed residential foster home operated by Covenant Children's Home, opened in 2009 on the Nature Coast of Florida. It provides a Christ-centered, family-style residential environment for children in crisis, with care delivered by a hired Christian married couple acting as Mom-and-Dad house parents and an explicit structural focus on keeping sibling groups together. Children are placed via referral from child-welfare partners such as Kid's Central Inc.
• Hope House (residential foster home) Hope House is the second licensed residential foster home operated by Covenant Children's Home, opened in 2021 to extend the organization's capacity on the Nature Coast of Florida. Together with Faith House it forms a two-home model under which both homes serve up to 12 children each from 2025 onward, with the same Christ-centered, sibling-togetherness focus and house-parent staffing model.
• Sibling-Group Foster Care Model A 2025 programmatic offering in which Covenant Children's Home formally refocuses both Faith House and Hope House on sibling-group placements (keeping brothers and sisters together), reduces home capacity from 14 to 12 children each for more individualized attention, and continues staffing each home with a dedicated live-in Christian married couple modeling a traditional family for children who may have never experienced a functioning, caring family.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100 children served since opening in 2009.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Kid's Central Inc.flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed on the homepage footer as "IN PARTNERSHIP WITH KID'S CENTRAL INC." Kid's Central Inc. is the child-welfare partner through which Covenant Children's Home receives child placements on the Nature Coast of Florida.
• Springs Presbyterian ChurchcoreOthersMultiple board members (Chairman Lester "Butch" Hilliard, Vice Chairman, Treasurer Avis Marie Craig, Board Member Rande Watson) are active members of Springs Presbyterian Church. CCH has roots in the church and is supported by it.
• PayPalcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPayPal provides the hosted donation button (hosted_button_id=SRBH6FNKV8E3E) used on the homepage and Donate page to accept charitable contributions.
• Seven Rivers Presbyterian ChurchminorOthersBoard member Daniel Watson is identified as an active member of Seven Rivers Presbyterian Church, supporting CCH's faith community.
• Share the Love Ocala (formerly RFKC)minorOthersBoard member Mark Canova served on the board of RFKC (now Share the Love Ocala) from 2010–2013 and has been involved in ministries in the foster care system since 2010, linking CCH to the broader regional foster-care ministry network.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Boys Town: National nonprofit operating residential group homes, foster care, and family services for at-risk youth; broadly comparable as a long-established residential care operator, though at much greater scale and a more secular framing.
• Embrace Families: Central Florida child welfare lead agency contracting with the state for foster care and family services; comparable as a regional child welfare ecosystem player that funnels placements to providers like CCH.
• Children's Home Society of Florida: One of Florida's largest child- and family-services nonprofits, offering foster care, adoption, and family preservation. Broader and more established, but overlaps directly on the foster-care ministry space.
• Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health: Large national nonprofit operating residential and community-based programs for at-risk children and families; comparable on the residential care model, though at significantly greater scale and secular framing.
• Bethany Christian Services: Large national faith-based child and family services organization offering foster care, adoption, and family support; comparable as a faith-rooted, established foster care operator with a wider footprint.

Direct peers

• Camelot Community Care: Florida-based child welfare and behavioral health provider offering foster care, residential, and family services; directly comparable in the residential/foster care delivery model.
• Florida Baptist Children's Homes: Faith-based residential care provider in Florida operating multiple children's homes; directly comparable in model (foster/group residential care) and mission framing (Christ-centered care for children in crisis).
• Place of Hope: Faith-based foster and adoption organization in Florida providing residential care and family-style homes; directly comparable as a faith-rooted residential care ministry serving children in crisis.

Regional players

• 4Kids of South Florida: South Florida faith-based residential and foster care ministry; comparable in faith-rooted residential foster care model, but serves a different Florida geography.
• Kids Central Inc. The child-welfare lead agency for the Nature Coast region and CCH's flagship referral partner; comparable as the regional child welfare infrastructure through which CCH placements are routed.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CCHDunnellonfl
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/covenant-childrens-home-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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