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Child Trends Inc

Child trends, inc. (child trends) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs and policies that affect children and their families. In advancing its mission, child trends collects and…

$4.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$85,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$545,021
States reached, FY2025
21
Total assets, FY2025
$24M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Morehouse School of Medicine$545,02110%
University of Massachusetts$544,2291n/a
Latin American Youth Center$332,62612%
Duke University$292,12710%
University of Delaware$225,68910%
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro$217,7291n/a
Power to Decide$210,31311%
Pacific American Foundation$186,8141n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$172,6051n/a
Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Jus$172,5981n/a
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All grantees of Child Trends Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Morehouse School of Medicine$545,02110%
University of Massachusetts$544,2291n/a
Latin American Youth Center$332,62612%
Duke University$292,12710%
University of Delaware$225,68910%
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro$217,7291n/a
Power to Decide$210,31311%
Pacific American Foundation$186,8141n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$172,6051n/a
Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Jus$172,5981n/a
Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc$131,43111%
My Health Ed Inc$126,3211n/a
USC School of Medicine Greenville$116,5131n/a
Televisa Foundation Inc$106,8211n/a
Chapin Hall Center for Children$104,84210%
Health Education and Research Associates Inc$85,0001n/a
Rutgers the State University$85,0001n/a
School of Sexuality Project Inc$85,0001n/a
Kool Mom Incorporated$85,0001n/a
Ivanhoe Broadcast News Inc$73,8031n/a
Group I&I Consultancy LLC$68,7191n/a
McRel International$58,0091n/a
Search Institute$56,65712%
University of Maryland College Park$48,7821n/a
Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council$45,94411%
Hispanic Access Foundation$36,5141n/a
Education Northwest$30,6211n/a
Children's National$21,50010%
Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation Inc$20,00011%
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center$20,0001n/a
Regents Univ of California$20,0001n/a
University of Rhode Island$18,0051n/a
Mef Associates LLC$16,7521n/a
Healthy Teen Network Inc$15,83710%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Child Trends Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMorehouse School of Medicine: $545,021 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLatin American Youth Center: $332,626 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDuke University: $292,127 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Delaware: $225,689 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPower to Decide: $210,313 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSasha Bruce Youthwork Inc: $131,431 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChapin Hall Center for Children: $104,842 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSearch Institute: $56,657 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBuilding Bright Futures State Advisory Council: $45,944 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's National: $21,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHugh Lane Wellness Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHealthy Teen Network Inc: $15,837 over 1y, 0.3% 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 12.

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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.

Annie E Casey Foundation IncMD14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Child Trends Inc

How much does Child Trends Inc give?
Child Trends Inc reported 36 grants totaling $4,401,653 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Child Trends Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (33%), Health (27%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are Child Trends Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Morehouse School of Medicine ($545k), University of Massachusetts ($544k), Latin American Youth Center ($333k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Child Trends Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, Gates Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Child Trends Inc based?
Child Trends Inc is based in MD.

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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