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I've created a sub-type of Individual Contact named Sponsorable_Child.  I've created about 15 custom fields for that sub type, and have created a profile intended for data entry thereof.

Means that the profile is specific to this subtype, and could only be used to add / update a contact of this subtype.

However, when I try to use the profile for editing, I get this error:

This profile is configured for contact type 'Sponsorable_Child'. It cannot be used to edit contacts of other types.

If you wan't to be able to change subtypes from profile, make sure profile doesn't have 'Sponsorable_Child' specific fields (in your case its custom fields). For example a profile with fields of type contacts / individual (parent type) would allow you to change subtypes.

The analogy is same as - a profile once configured for Individual, can't be used to add / update fields for a contact of type organization.
However if the profile is configured for type 'Contact' could be used to add / update fields for all types of contacts.

This feature of - Keeping profile specific to a subtype and allowing changing subtypes is not currently supported or doesn't exit. You will not to customize / extend the code to achieve that (may not be trivial).

The contact that I'm trying to edit, is of subtype Sponsorable_Child.  That profile contains mostly fields of type Sponsorable_Child, and about 5 fields that are 'Individual'.

So I'm correct in concluding that I cannot build a profile that will allow me to edit custom fields of the Sponsorable_Child subtype?

If the contact you are trying to edit via profile is of "Sponsorable_Child" subtype only, profile should allow you to update custom fields or any other fields (but not subtype itself).

If the above is not happening, could you reproduce the problem on demo.civicrm.org ?