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Colorado · Public charity

Child First Inc

Child first helps to heal and protect children and families from the devastating effects of trauma and chronic stress by fostering the development of strong, nurturing, caregiver-child relationships, promoting adult capacity, and connecting families with services.

$3.7M
Granted FY2020
1
Itemized grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$1.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$1,569,648
Largest grant, FY2020
$1,569,648
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Child First Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20201$1.6M100%
FY20188$1.5M0%
FY20178$3.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$3.2MHuman Services$1.6MEducation$707kPhilanthropy$702k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nurse-Family Partnership$1,569,64814%
Lower Naugatuck Valley Parent Child Resource Center$706,5812n/a
The Intercommunity Foundation Inc$702,1312100%
Family and Children's Aid Inc$668,61222%
The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital$640,21420%
Community Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut Inc$622,884216%
United Community and Family Servicesinc$610,20821%
Wheeler Clinic Inc$343,20020%
The Village for Families and Children$337,06221%

Where it is load-bearing

Child First Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNurse-Family Partnership: $1,569,648 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Intercommunity Foundation Inc: $702,131 over 2y, 100% of budgetFamily and Children's Aid Inc: $668,612 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetThe Charlotte Hungerford Hospital: $640,214 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut Inc: $622,884 over 2y, 16% of budgetUnited Community and Family Servicesinc: $610,208 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWheeler Clinic Inc: $343,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Village for Families and Children: $337,062 over 2y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Child First Inc?

Find your warmest path to Child First Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Child First Inc

How much does Child First Inc give?
Child First Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $1,569,648, out of $3,745,074 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Child First Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (52%), Human Services (25%), Education (11%).
Who are Child First Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Nurse-Family Partnership ($1.6M), Lower Naugatuck Valley Parent Child Resource Center ($707k), The Intercommunity Foundation Inc ($702k).
Does Child First Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Child First Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Child First Inc based?
Child First Inc is based in CO.

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 9 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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