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Children Can Shape the Future Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$430k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$849kYouth Development$840kRecreation & Sports$205kArts & Culture$182kHuman Services$120kCrime & Legal$92kCommunity Improvement$90kHealth$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUCY OUTREACH A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION$25,000
JOUNCE PARTNERS$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA$25,000
NORTH10 PHILADELPHIA$20,000
KENSINGTON SOCCER CLUB$20,000
WEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN$20,000
READING ALLOWED$20,000
HARLEM LACROSSE PHILADELPHIA$15,000
HORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC$15,000
HISTORIC FAIR HILL$15,000
CODED BY KIDS$15,000
ROCK TO THE FUTURE$15,000
SQUASHSMARTS INC$15,000
WEST PARK CULTURAL CENTER$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $50k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $50k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Children Can Shape the Future Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Children Can Shape the Future Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 29 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
25

Total granted

$1.3M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+15%

Still filing today

90%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BC
    Bicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia
    3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • BP
    BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $98k · revenue +98%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SR
    STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $131k · revenue +56%
  • WL
    WORKSHOP LEARNING
    one grant, 2019 · $129k · revenue +8%
  • PO
    PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $110k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
2
Philadelphia Youth for Change Charter School Inc

To empower young adults (17-20 year-olds) to develop skills and connect to opportunities by fostering an environment of love, support, and respect for their whole person. students graduate high school and successfully transition to college…

Education
3
Philadelphia Public Access Corporation

Phillycam provides transformative opportunities for people and communities to express themselves, to learn from each other, and to produce and share media reflective of the experiences of everyday people.

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4
Philadelphia Reads Inc

The mission of philadelphia reads is to build a "city of readers" by providing "in and "out of school time" programs that strengthen the literacy skills of philadelphia school children so they will be able to read at or above grade level…

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5
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…

Youth Development
6
Liguori Inc

The mission of liguori academy is to prepare future leaders through individualized learning in a community that offers boundless opportunities. liguori academy uses individualized curricula to drive the instructional approach each student…

Education
7
Natural Creativity

To help young people and their families enhance their innate ability to think flexibly and meet challenges creatively.

Youth Development
8
Revolution School

Revolution school is breaking down the walls between learning and life because high school can and should be a revolution. we are creating an environment for education where students and teachers are inspired by each other, their world,…

Education
9
Philadelphia Youth Organization

To provide underserved youth from philadelphia with opportunities to develop to their fullest potential athletically, academically, and as citizens, in an environment that builds character, promotes positive decision-making, and produces…

Youth Development
10
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
11
Multicultural Academy Charter School

It is the mission of the multicultural academy charter school to educate the whole child by providing a safe environment where students can learn and teachers can instruct while emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in the…

Education
12
Philly Sound Exchange Llc

Students wrote produced and performed an original musical Bridges The musical follows students as they navigate their racial identities address issues of race at their suburban school and challenge a music education system in need of…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative and the most unlike its peers is NORTH10 Philadelphia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Jewish Student & Youth Prog…Faith-Based Community Minis…Neighborhood Revitalization…History & Heritage Preserva…Pediatric Medical Specialty…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%23%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%23%5–10yr18%30%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
16%
1,554/9,547

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
31/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORKSHOP LEARNING — $129,000 · EducationWORKSHOP LEARNINGBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA — $97,562 · EducationBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIATRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $75,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY O…BUILDING 21 — $50,000 · EducationBUILDING 21SUNRISE OF PHILADELPHIA — $47,000 · EducationSUNRISE OF PHILADELPHIAREADING ALLOWED — $45,000 · EducationREADING ALLOWEDHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $40,000 · EducationHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIAHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC — $40,000 · EducationHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INCPhiladelphia Robotics Coalition Inc — $35,000 · EducationCODED BY — $35,000 · EducationTREE HOUSE BOOKS — $35,000 · EducationWRITERS MATTER — $30,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $110,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS EDUCATION & WORKFORCE SERVICES DIVISION — $55,000 · OtherCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS EDUCATION …CHILDREN FIRST PA (FORMERLY PCCY) — $50,000 · OtherCHILDREN FIRST PA (FORMERLY PCCY)WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $40,000 · OtherWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $35,000 · OtherHORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC — $35,000 · OtherHARLEM LACROSSE PHILADELPHIA — $35,000 · OtherTHE PRINT CENTER — $35,000 · OtherFAB YOUTH PHILLY — $35,000 · OtherURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $35,000 · OtherTHE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC — $30,000 · OtherHealthy NewsWorks — $30,000 · OtherYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC — $92,350 · OtherYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT IN…LIVEWELL FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherLIVEWELL FOUNDATIONHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC — $35,000 · OtherWEST PARK CULTURAL CENTER — $30,000 · Other+5 more — $105,000 · Other+5 moreSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE — $130,565 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY ST…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS O…JOUNCE PARTNERS INC — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOUNCE PARTNERS INCLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NON…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF C…NORTH10 PHILADELPHIA — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH10 PHILADELPHIAJOYFUL READERS INC — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOYFUL READERS INCTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMANDLA INC — $20,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsSQUASHSMARTS INC — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsPLAY ON PHILLY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICOPIA INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureROCK TO THE FUTURE INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY — $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — $100,000 · PhilanthropyPHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA — $50,000 · Human Services
Education$658,562Other$847,350Youth Development$505,565Recreation & Sports$205,000Arts & Culture$152,000Philanthropy$125,000Human Services$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE — $130,565 over 1y, 10% of budgetWORKSHOP LEARNING — $129,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia — $100,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA — $97,562 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC — $92,350 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOUNCE PARTNERS INC — $65,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLIVEWELL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $55,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING 21 — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSUNRISE OF PHILADELPHIA — $47,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC — $45,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetREADING ALLOWED — $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH10 PHILADELPHIA — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER — $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJOYFUL READERS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSQUASHSMARTS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $35,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Robotics Coalition Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCODED BY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PRINT CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC — $35,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTREE HOUSE BOOKS — $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST PARK CULTURAL CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWRITERS MATTER — $30,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetHealthy NewsWorks — $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMANDLA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNEED IN DEED — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN BALLET COMPANY — $7,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…The Allen Hilles FundHenrietta Tower Wurts…The Patricia Kind Fam…The William Penn Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Adam and Maria Sarah …Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Ludwick FdnConnelly FoundationThe Barra Foundation …Grace S and W Linton …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA71.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Allen Hilles Fund · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Ludwick Fdn · Connelly Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Children Can Shape the Future Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Center Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Children Can Shape the Future Inc?

Find your warmest path to Children Can Shape the Future 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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