· Public charity
Action for Children
To transform the lives of children by supporting, empowering, and advocating for the adults who make the biggest impact on children's lives-their parents, caregivers and teachers.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CDCFC NORTH LINDEN EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| LITTLE MIRACLES EDC | $15,000 |
| NCBC HUMAN SERVICES CORP | $15,000 |
| PATHWAY II DESTINY CHILDCARE | $15,000 |
| STARTING POINT LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| DRIVING PARK EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| TENDER YEARS LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| G TYREE LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| FULBRIGHT LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| FUTURE SCHOLARS LEARNING ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| YMCA - JERRY L GARVER CHILD CARE PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| RAINBOW2 CHILDCARE INC | $10,000 |
| CDCFC LINDEN PARK | $10,000 |
| BLESSED ASSURANCE CHILDCARE LLC | $10,000 |
| LITTLE ONES LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $590k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO3× · 2023–2025 · $237k · revenue +9%
- MAMOMMY AND ME CHILDCARE AND ENRICHMENT CENTER LLC2× · 2023–2024 · $85k
- NBNICOLE BROWN2× · 2024–2025 · $56k
Funded once
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $274k · revenue 0%
- JWJAMIE WADEone grant, 2024 · $63k
- LPLA PETITE ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $42k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Young Child Assiciates mission is to keep children safe and to support families in the daily care and guidance of their children. Our programs are designed to promote social, academic and personal growth using large and small group…
Child Education Center is a licensed daycare serving children ages 6 weeks thru 6 years.
Building a stronger tomorrow through nurturing today.
The organization operates and provides quality childcare in a nurturing and learning environment in multiple locations.
Childcare
Child care
The education of young people in the preschool through twelfth grade in a christian centered learning facility.
To provide a child centered educational program at a reasonable tuition that will honor god in a high quality christian based environment benefiting both our children and families.
To provide preschool services to children ages 2 and older.
Our mission is to provide a nurturing and challenging montessori preschool environment for children ages 18 months to 6 years old in which children explore the world and their place in it through hands-on learning experiences and positive…
LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…
Ccdc's mission is to provide the highest quality educational childcare services to families with children from infancy through their preschool years.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 288 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Early Care and Learning Inc · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Harry C Moores Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Hillsborough County School Readiness Coalition Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Action for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Action for Children. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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