· Public charity
Children First - America's Charities
To support the activities and purposes of other 501(c)(3) organizations that assist children, families, adults & communities by providing funds distribution services that further their exempt purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $372k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC | $189,071 |
| CHILDRENS HOUSE AT JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL INC | $70,210 |
| CURESEARCH FOR CHILDRENS CANCER | $59,052 |
| NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC | $53,304 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $49,993 |
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC | $38,060 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC | $37,698 |
| PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA | $36,276 |
| BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC | $23,355 |
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $20,010 |
| STANDUP FOR KIDS | $10,093 |
| SESAME WORKSHOP | $8,623 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA4× · 2017–2020 · $1.7M · revenue +38%- RMRonald McDonald House Global5× · 2017–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +82%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL4× · 2017–2020 · $373k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CMCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $86k · revenue +31%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue +120%
- CLChildrens Leukemia Research Assn Incone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -87%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…
Safe kids worldwide is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing childhood injuries.
See schedule ochildren's hospital foundation dba children's national hospital foundation supports world class care and research for the nation's children. children's national hospital foundation serves as the fundraising arm for children's…
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
Children's foundation of america (the foundation) is a not-for-profit organization established to raise funds and provide support to children in need. the primary goal of the foundation is to identify and access resources to support foster…
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOUSE AT JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST - AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds FIRST CANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Childrens Leukemia Research Assn Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR CHILD PROTECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM FACTORY INC - HEADQUARTERS ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: America's Charities · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 First - America's Charities 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- First Candle Inc — 46% of income from government
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.
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