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American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc

To empower families, especially lower-income families, with the freedom to choose the best k-12 education for their children.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$21MCommunity Improvement$110kCivil Rights$55kPublic Benefit$47k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $525k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOOL CHOICE OHIO$750,000
EMPOWER KENTUCKY PARENTS INC$500,000
PARENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM NORTH CAROLINA$500,000
INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION$225,000
EDUCATION FREEDOM ALABAMA$150,000
OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS OF NEBRASKA$100,000
CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA$50,000
IOWA ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$40,000
PALMETTO PROMISE INSTITUTE$35,000
PENNSYLVANIA FAMILIES FOR EDUCATION CHOICE$25,000
NEBRASKA COALITION OF NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE: $55k → 16%LAS VEGAS URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 13%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $50k → 23%INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $35k → 23%INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE: $40k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $30k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 19 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
22

Total granted

$19M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

79%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $790k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    SCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +108% · 80% of their budget
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +37%
  • CE
    CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI
    2× · 2019–2022 · $560k · revenue +7% · 55% of their budget

Funded once

  • KK
    KEEP KIDS FIRST
    one grant, 2023 · $375k · 28% of their budget
  • II
    INVEST IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $292k · revenue +133% · 39% of their budget
  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM IN NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ohioans for School Choice

The organization is committed to helping people find a learning environment that allows children to grow and thrive. it is the only statewide organization that educates parents on their education options and advocates for the expansion of…

Education
2
Parents for School Options

The coalition advocates for public school options, educating policymakers about the need for expanding access to school choice options. the coalition engages media to generate news coverage about public school options.

Education
3
Education United Indy Inc

Education united fights for education justice and opportunities for indianapolis students by informing and engaging our community on public education issues.

Education
4
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
5
National Education Opportunity Network Inc

The National Education Equity Lab propels economic mobility for students from low-income communities by delivering college credit-bearing courses from our nation's top universities and colleges into low-income Title I high schools at…

Education
6
Parent Choice Inc

Parent choice, inc. exists to support school choice wisconsin, inc. and other exempt organizations that seek to expand and maintain quality educational options available to families to choose from when creating the best educational…

Education
7
Campaign for School Equity

The organization's mission is to ensure that all children, especially those of color, and families in tennessee have access to high quality education choices by uniting communities of clergy, parents, and students to raise their voices to…

Education
8
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education

To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.

Education
9
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education Policy and Research

To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.

Education
10
Parent Advocates for Choice in Education Foundation

To conduct public policy research on matters affecting educational choice and to propose approaches to public policy issues related to educational choice. To conduct nonpartisan public policy research and to distribute policy studies on…

Education
11
Technology for Education Consortium

To bring transparency, efficiency, and collaboration to k-12 schools engaged in evaulating and purchasing edtech products and services. we believe that greater transparency and better information will allow school districts to improve…

Education
12
Education Analytics Inc

Education analytics' mission is to conduct research and develop policy and management analytics to support reform and continuous improvement in american education.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Illinois; the most unlike its peers is Urban League of Louisiana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 47 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/39
Grantees still filing
17/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INC: $6,223,500 · EducationSCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INCParents for Educational Freedom in NC: $4,715,000 · EducationParents for Educational Freedom in NCINSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $2,240,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INCEMPOWER ILLINOIS: $1,280,000 · EducationEMPOWER ILLINOISSCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC: $650,000 · Education+18 more: $2,420,179 · Education+18 moreALABAMA OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $882,630 · OtherALABAMA OPPOR…EMPOWER KENTUCKY PARENTS INC: $500,000 · OtherEMPOWER KENTU…KEEP KIDS FIRST: $375,000 · OtherKEEP KIDS FIR…PARTNERS FOR EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM IN NORTH CAROLINA: $200,000 · OtherPARTNERS FOR …BEACON CENTER: $136,500 · OtherBEACON CENTER+9 more: $422,500 · Other+9 moreEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $180,000 · Human ServicesINDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $145,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $115,000 · Human ServicesLAS VEGAS CLARK COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $25,000 · Human ServicesPalmetto Promise Institute: $255,000 · HealthHOOSIERS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementSCISSORTAIL COMMUNITY DEVELOP CORP: $95,000 · Community ImprovementSouth Carolina Opportunity Now: $140,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitENVIRONMENTALISTS FOR EFFECTIVE EDUCATION INC: $15,488 · Environment
Education$17,528,679Other$2,516,630Human Services$465,000Health$255,000Community Improvement$215,000Public Benefit$165,000Environment$15,488

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INC: $6,223,500 over 8y, 80% of budgetParents for Educational Freedom in NC: $4,715,000 over 8y, 64% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $2,240,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetEMPOWER ILLINOIS: $1,280,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC: $650,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetCHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI: $560,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetEMPOWER KENTUCKY PARENTS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetEDCHOICE KENTUCKY INC: $448,000 over 5y, 76% of budgetKEEP KIDS FIRST: $375,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS OF NEBRASKA: $350,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetINVEST IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $291,662 over 1y, 39% of budgetPalmetto Promise Institute: $255,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetMY SC EDUCATION: $200,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetEDUCATION FREEDOM ALABAMA: $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $145,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSouth Carolina Opportunity Now: $140,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetHOOSIERS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $120,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $115,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSCISSORTAIL COMMUNITY DEVELOP CORP: $95,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetLet MI Kids Learn: $80,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $65,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIOWA ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetASSOCIATED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS OF LOUISIANA: $35,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA FAMILIES UNITED FOR EDUCATION INCORPORATED: $27,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPA FAMILIES FOR EDUCATION CHOICE: $25,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAS VEGAS CLARK COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA NON-PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetIOWA ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $20,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetYoung Voices: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCATHOLIC MEMPHIS URBAN SCHOOLS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

National School Choic…EdChoice IncAmerican Federation f…Walton Family Foundat…The Seminar Network I…Donors Trust IncLovett & Ruth Peters …Yes Every Kid IncState Policy NetworkCampaign for Great Pu…Beth and Ravenel Curr…Enterprise Holdings F…
National School Choice Awareness Foundation IncFL34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National School Choice Awareness Foundation Inc · EdChoice Inc · American Federation for Children Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Seminar Network Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation · Yes Every Kid Inc · State Policy Network · Campaign for Great Public Schools · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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