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Children Can Shape the Future Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA$25,000
JOUNCE PARTNERS$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC$25,000
LUCY OUTREACH A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION$25,000
READING ALLOWED$20,000
KENSINGTON SOCCER CLUB$20,000
NORTH10 PHILADELPHIA$20,000
WEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN$20,000
ROCK TO THE FUTURE$15,000
MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT$15,000
JOYFUL READERS INC$15,000
HORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC$15,000
HISTORIC FAIR HILL$15,000
THE PRINT CENTER$15,000
TREE HOUSE BOOKS$15,000
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 (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 its 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
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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Children Can Shape the Future Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Children Can Shape the Future Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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.

—
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…

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative; 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.
05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 56 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ALLOWEDHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $40,000 · EducationHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INCHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 · EducationHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIATREE HOUSE BOOKS: $35,000 · EducationCODED BY: $35,000 · EducationPhiladelphia Robotics Coalition Inc: $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 · OtherHARLEM LACROSSE PHILADELPHIA: $35,000 · OtherFAB YOUTH PHILLY: $35,000 · OtherTHE PRINT CENTER: $35,000 · OtherWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 · OtherHORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $35,000 · OtherURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $35,000 · OtherHealthy NewsWorks: $30,000 · OtherTHE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC: $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…JOYFUL READERS INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOYFUL READERS INCNORTH10 PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH10 PHILADELPHIATHE 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 · PhilanthropyNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $50,000 · Human Services
Education$658,562Other$847,350Youth Development$505,565Recreation & Sports$205,000Arts & Culture$152,000Philanthropy$125,000Human Services$100,000

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 budgetSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $130,565 over 1y, 10% of budgetWORKSHOP LEARNING: $129,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia: $100,000 over 3y, 2.5% 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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBUILDING 21: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $47,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetREADING ALLOWED: $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC: $45,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetJOYFUL READERS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH10 PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSQUASHSMARTS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTREE HOUSE BOOKS: $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PRINT CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCODED BY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPhiladelphia Robotics Coalition Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetWRITERS MATTER: $30,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHealthy NewsWorks: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWEST PARK CULTURAL CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 15% 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 budgetAMANDLA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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
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.

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

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 Children Can Shape the Future Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children Can Shape the Future Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 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-PF 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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