North Carolina · Public charity
Alliance for Children
To support vital programs and policies that have a positive impact on the quality of life of children birth to age 5 and their families, by advocating, collaborating and being fiscally responsible.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $148,307
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $866,941
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $332k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Alliance for Children funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $3.1M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $2.7M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $2.9M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $3.0M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $3.3M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $3.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union County Public Schools | $5,573,767 | 6 | n/a |
| Childtime Childcare Inc | $2,450,845 | 6 | n/a |
| Weekday Children's Ministries CDC | $2,226,986 | 6 | n/a |
| Union County Government | $1,532,177 | 6 | n/a |
| Kids Are Kids | $1,360,052 | 6 | n/a |
| Childcare Network Inc | $1,084,829 | 6 | n/a |
| South Piedmont Community College | $939,262 | 6 | n/a |
| A Childcare & Learning Center | $758,317 | 6 | n/a |
| Wingate Baptist Daycare | $751,545 | 6 | n/a |
| Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc | $525,886 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union County Public Schools | $5,573,767 | 6 | n/a |
| Childtime Childcare Inc | $2,450,845 | 6 | n/a |
| Weekday Children's Ministries CDC | $2,226,986 | 6 | n/a |
| Union County Government | $1,532,177 | 6 | n/a |
| Kids Are Kids | $1,360,052 | 6 | n/a |
| Childcare Network Inc | $1,084,829 | 6 | n/a |
| South Piedmont Community College | $939,262 | 6 | n/a |
| A Childcare & Learning Center | $758,317 | 6 | n/a |
| Wingate Baptist Daycare | $751,545 | 6 | n/a |
| Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc | $525,886 | 2 | 1% |
| Steps Developmental Academy Inc | $387,115 | 4 | n/a |
| The Arc of Union Cabarrus Inc | $158,585 | 4 | 22% |
| Leafspring of Matthews | $142,539 | 1 | n/a |
| Kelley Austin Kindercare | $117,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oakboro Kids Club | $74,160 | 4 | n/a |
| Julia's Community | $27,221 | 1 | n/a |
| My Little Angels Learning Center | $500 | 1 | n/a |
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Alliance for Children
- How much does Alliance for Children give?
- Alliance for Children reported 14 grants totaling $3,122,633 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Alliance for Children fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (82%), Human Services (11%), Health (5%).
- Who are Alliance for Children's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Union County Public Schools ($5.6M), Childtime Childcare Inc ($2.5M), Weekday Children's Ministries CDC ($2.2M).
- Does Alliance for Children fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alliance for Children?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is Alliance for Children based?
- Alliance for Children is based in NC.
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