How much does Children Count Foundation give?

Children Count Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,123,107 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Children Count Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (27%), International (19%).

Who are Children Count Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ashesi University Foundation ($768k), Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc ($581k), Technology Access Foundation ($462k).

Does Children Count Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Children Count Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Children Count Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Artsfund.

Where is Children Count Foundation based?

Children Count Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Children Count Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 22
Grants FY2024: 25
Organizations funded FY2023: 40%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $9,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 15 to 25; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $3.3M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Children Count Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	21	$873k	33%
FY2023	25	$522k	40%
FY2022	18	$996k	33%
FY2021	15	$783k	20%
FY2020	24	$514k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MEducation$1.1MInternational$768kCivil Rights$664kYouth Development$96kCommunity Improvement$34kPublic Benefit$24kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ashesi University Foundation	$768,398	5	6%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc	$581,197	5	2%
Technology Access Foundation	$462,023	4	5%
Key to Change	$80,100	5	9%
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy	$53,000	4	0%
Leschi PTA	$51,041	4	18%
The Mt Baker Community Club	$33,500	5	2%
Children's Defense Fund	$30,000	1	0%
New Georgia Project Inc	$24,000	2	0%
Allied Arts Foundation	$23,500	5	11%

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All grantees of Children Count Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ashesi University Foundation	$768,398	5	6%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc	$581,197	5	2%
Technology Access Foundation	$462,023	4	5%
Key to Change	$80,100	5	9%
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy	$53,000	4	0%
Leschi PTA	$51,041	4	18%
The Mt Baker Community Club	$33,500	5	2%
Children's Defense Fund	$30,000	1	0%
New Georgia Project Inc	$24,000	2	0%
Allied Arts Foundation	$23,500	5	11%
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio	$20,000	4	0%
Seattle Nativity School	$20,000	2	0%
Northwest African American Museum	$14,020	1	1%
Cascade Public Media	$10,108	2	0%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc	$9,000	1	0%
261 Fearless Inc	$7,000	1	1%
Everett Community College Foundation	$6,000	1	0%
Book-It Repertory Theatre	$5,000	1	1%
Seattle Chamber Music Festival	$3,000	1	0%
Wellspring Family Services	$2,900	3	0%
Blood Cancer United Inc	$2,500	1	0%
The Amy Yee Tennis Foundation	$2,000	1	n/a
The Bush School	$1,250	2	0%
Puget Sound Music Collaborative	$1,100	1	n/a
Music of Remembrance	$1,100	1	0%
Artsfund	$1,000	1	0%
Earth Creative	$1,000	1	1%
Washington State Bar Foundation	$400	3	0%
Seattle Children's Hospital	$100	1	0%
Pcc Farmland Trust	$10	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Children Count Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 28.

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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.

Seattle FoundationWA28.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Lucky Seven Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Ridge Road Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Count Foundation

How much does Children Count Foundation give?: Children Count Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,123,107 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Children Count Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (27%), International (19%).
Who are Children Count Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ashesi University Foundation ($768k), Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc ($581k), Technology Access Foundation ($462k).
Does Children Count Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Children Count Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Children Count Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Artsfund.
Where is Children Count Foundation based?: Children Count Foundation is based in WA.