How much does Children's Equity Fund give?

Children's Equity Fund reported 31 grants totaling $6,931,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.

What does Children's Equity Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Public Benefit (32%), Human Services (11%).

Who are Children's Equity Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: DC Action for Children Today DC Act ($4.9M), Impact Fellows Action Fund ($2.3M), Future Now Action ($2.2M).

Does Children's Equity Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Children's Equity Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Advocacy, Open Society Action Fund Inc.

Where is Children's Equity Fund based?

Children's Equity Fund is based in DC.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Children's Equity Fund

To champion comprehensive policy changes at the federal, state and local levels to create lasting systems change that improves the well-being of children and families.

$6.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 31
Grants FY2025: 22
Organizations funded FY2024: 41%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $150,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $930,000
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 22; FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 11
Total assets, FY2025: $114M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Children's Equity Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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
FY2025still arriving	25	$6.7M	52%
FY2024	22	$9.2M	41%
FY2023	10	$3.5M	60%
FY2022	11	$3.0M	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, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$9.2MPublic Benefit$7.5MHuman Services$2.5MCivil Rights$2.5MReligion$825kCommunity Improvement$740kYouth Development$120k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
DC Action for Children Today DC Act	$4,914,000	4	56%
Impact Fellows Action Fund	$2,325,000	3	23%
Future Now Action	$2,200,000	3	5%
Alliance for Youth Action	$1,800,000	3	16%
Economic Security Project Action Inc	$1,800,000	3	18%
Jews United for Justice Campaign Fund	$1,350,000	2	n/a
Center for Community Change Action	$850,000	3	7%
Jews United for Justice Inc	$825,000	2	14%
DC Fiscal Policy Institute Inc	$755,500	4	16%
Fusion Partnership Inc	$670,000	3	2%

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All grantees of Children's Equity Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
DC Action for Children Today DC Act	$4,914,000	4	56%
Impact Fellows Action Fund	$2,325,000	3	23%
Future Now Action	$2,200,000	3	5%
Alliance for Youth Action	$1,800,000	3	16%
Economic Security Project Action Inc	$1,800,000	3	18%
Jews United for Justice Campaign Fund	$1,350,000	2	n/a
Center for Community Change Action	$850,000	3	7%
Jews United for Justice Inc	$825,000	2	14%
DC Fiscal Policy Institute Inc	$755,500	4	16%
Fusion Partnership Inc	$670,000	3	2%
Casa in Action Inc	$560,000	3	6%
Pennsylvania Stands Up Inc	$550,000	3	14%
Let's Grow Kids Action Network	$500,000	2	40%
Living United for Change in Arizona	$475,000	2	4%
The Clapham Group LLC	$395,000	1	n/a
DC Early Learning Collaborative Inc	$336,000	2	8%
Mississippi Voter Alliance	$250,000	1	n/a
Momsrising Together	$250,000	2	3%
Virginia Promise in Action Inc	$240,000	1	41%
Strong Start PAC	$200,000	1	n/a
Far Southeast Family Strengtening	$140,000	1	1%
The Ohio Organizing Campaign	$100,000	1	1%
Mississippi Votes Action Fund Corporation	$100,000	1	n/a
Casa in Action PAC Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Advance Carolina	$100,000	1	n/a
Advance North Carolina Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Citizens Not Politicians	$100,000	1	n/a
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$100,000	1	n/a
Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc	$100,000	1	3%
Children First Action Fund	$75,000	1	26%
National Redistricting Foundation	$45,750	1	0%
National Redistricting Action Fund	$35,750	1	1%
No on 2109 Commitee	$30,000	1	n/a
Child Care Aware of America	$25,000	1	0%
Project Pneuma Inc	$20,000	2	n/a
The Washington Bus Education Fund	$10,000	1	n/a
Washington Community Action Network	$10,000	1	0%
Oneamerica Votes	$10,000	1	n/a
Freedom Inc	$10,000	1	0%

Children's Equity Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 25.

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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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC36.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Advocacy · Open Society Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · America Votes · Tides Foundation · Wellness Advocacy Fund · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Center for Community Change Action · North Fund

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's Equity Fund

How much does Children's Equity Fund give?: Children's Equity Fund reported 31 grants totaling $6,931,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Children's Equity Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Public Benefit (32%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Children's Equity Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: DC Action for Children Today DC Act ($4.9M), Impact Fellows Action Fund ($2.3M), Future Now Action ($2.2M).
Does Children's Equity Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Children's Equity Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Advocacy, Open Society Action Fund Inc.
Where is Children's Equity Fund based?: Children's Equity Fund is based in DC.