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Children and Families First

Children & families first helps children facing adversity on their journey to adulthood. We use proven methods to help families raise their children so they can flourish.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Itemized grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$421k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$25,352
Largest grant, FY2024
$73,179
Organizations funded a year
11 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Children and Families First funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23
EducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving14$421k21%
FY202311$281k18%
FY202215$357k13%
FY202013$270k8%
FY201916$428k6%
FY201817$481k18%
FY201715$476kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$2.7MEducation$19k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cacfptinytotsch$457,1837n/a
One Step Ahead Childcare & Pre$231,6177n/a
Pirulo's Childcare & Learning Center$225,7026n/a
Cacfpchildrensp$203,7544n/a
First Steps Preschool - Lunch$175,1447n/a
Newark Christian Child Care$173,2597n/a
First Steps Preschool - Milford$143,2387n/a
Sunshine Kids Academy$129,4515n/a
Little Destiny II$128,6845n/a
Bear Early Education Center$119,9115n/a
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All grantees of Children and Families First by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cacfptinytotsch$457,1837n/a
One Step Ahead Childcare & Pre$231,6177n/a
Pirulo's Childcare & Learning Center$225,7026n/a
Cacfpchildrensp$203,7544n/a
First Steps Preschool - Lunch$175,1447n/a
Newark Christian Child Care$173,2597n/a
First Steps Preschool - Milford$143,2387n/a
Sunshine Kids Academy$129,4515n/a
Little Destiny II$128,6845n/a
Bear Early Education Center$119,9115n/a
Dis Day Care$104,6123n/a
Kids Kastle LLC$83,5777n/a
Junebugs Little Rubies LLC$79,9954n/a
Little Destiny II$62,1672n/a
Cacfplittlepeop$58,3983n/a
Shining Stars Academy LLC$57,9271n/a
Almost Home Daycare LLC$51,0945n/a
The Little People CDC 2 LLC$49,6043n/a
Red Lion Christian Academy Inc F/K/A Reach Christian Schools Inc$38,8422n/a
North Towne Preschool$25,8752n/a
Beverly's Helping Hand$25,3521n/a
Care a Lot Development Center$20,4511n/a
Little People - Big Dreams$18,5121n/a
The Little People CDC 3 LLC$16,8644n/a
Brownchristine$14,5981n/a
Mercylove Academy LLC$11,7571n/a
Riverview Place$8,0261n/a

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Children and Families First

How much does Children and Families First give?
Children and Families First reported 14 itemized grants totaling $421,306, out of $2,283,400 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Children and Families First fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (99%), Education (1%).
Who are Children and Families First's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cacfptinytotsch ($457k), One Step Ahead Childcare & Pre ($232k), Pirulo's Childcare & Learning Center ($226k).
Does Children and Families First fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Children and Families First?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Children and Families First based?
Children and Families First is based in DE.

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 27 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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