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Children Count Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $416k
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$9,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASHESI UNIVERSITY Foundation$300,000
Stanford University$250,000
SEATTLE SYMPHONY$180,937
Technology Access Foundation$120,000
Asian American Justice Center$115,000
Individual grant recipient$45,000
Individual grant recipient$29,000
THE KEY TO CHANGE$20,000
Mt Baker Community Club$9,000
Kuow$9,000
Wikimedia Foundation$9,000
American Constitution Society$9,000
ALLIED ARTS FOUNDATION$7,500
261 Fearless$7,000
Book it Repertory Theater$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Wellspring Family Services: $2k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $800 → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $600 → 9%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 22 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
21

Total granted

$3.5M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+10%

Still filing today

68%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHealthInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AU
    ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $768k · revenue +17%
  • TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $462k · revenue +49%
  • KT
    KEY TO CHANGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +337%

Funded once

  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +17%
  • NA
    NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue -23%
  • 2F
    261 Fearless
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
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
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
2
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
3
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
4
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.

Arts & Culture
5
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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6
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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7
Friends of Kexp

Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.

Youth Development
8
Seattle Public Library Foundation

The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.

Education
9
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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10
Aclu of Washington Endowment Fund

To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights by supporting the aclu-wa foundation.

—
11
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
12
The University of Puget Sound

University of puget sound, as a community of learning, maintains a strong commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly engagement, and fruitful student-faculty interaction. the mission of the university is to develop in its students'…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Earth Creative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE SYMPHONY: $1,313,410 · OtherSEATTLE SYMPHONY+31 more: $288,882 · Other+31 moreASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $768,398 · InternationalASHESI UNIVERSITY FOU…ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $581,197 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS A…CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $30,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $24,000 · Civil RightsTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $425,700 · EducationTHE BOARD OF T…AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $53,000 · EducationAMERICAN CONST…SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $16,250 · EducationTECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION: $462,023 · Community ImprovementTECHNOLOGY A…KEY TO CHANGE: $80,100 · Arts & CultureKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $14,020 · Arts & CultureCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $10,108 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $6,100 · Arts & Culture261 FEARLESS INC: $7,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,602,292International$768,398Civil Rights$635,197Education$514,950Community Improvement$462,023Arts & Culture$130,328Recreation & Sports$7,000

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 budgetASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $768,398 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $581,197 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION: $462,023 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $425,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKEY TO CHANGE: $80,100 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $53,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLESCHI PTA: $51,041 over 4y, 18% of budgetTHE MT BAKER COMMUNITY CLUB: $33,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAllied Arts Foundation: $23,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $14,020 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $10,108 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget261 FEARLESS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBook-It Repertory Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSeattle Chamber Music Festival: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUSH SCHOOL: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE: $1,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTSFUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH CREATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION: $400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPCC FARMLAND TRUST: $10 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…ArtsfundGs Donor Advised Phil…Lucky Seven FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Ridge Road FoundationWyman Youth TrustThe Satterberg Founda…M J Murdock Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Children Count Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children Count Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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