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Children's Funding Project

CHILDREN'S FUNDING PROJECT helps communities and states expand equitable opportunities for children and youth through strategic public financing.

$108k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Education$56kPhilanthropy$44kHuman Services$22kCivil Rights$20kSocial Science$8kPublic Benefit$7k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$22,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF TUCSON AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA$22,000
LEARN TO EARN DAYTON$22,000
UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA$22,000
POUGHKEEPSIE CHILDRENS CABINET INC$22,000
CHILDREN NOW$20,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDREN NOW: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MI
NY
IA
OH
CA
AZ
TN
NC

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.

03Your field

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.

1
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
2
Wake County Smart Start Inc

Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.

Education
3
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education

To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.

Education
4
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
5
Whole Child Collaborative

To provide a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities

Education
6
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
7
Yes Every Kid Inc

yes. every kid. is a leading advocacy team with a families-first approach to transform America's education policy landscape.

8
United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties

Since 1958, United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties has been raising funds and creating partnerships to improve lives and strengthen communities. We collaborate to support a foundation for the well-being, safety, and academic success of…

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy
10
Voices of Tomorrow

To provide culturally responsive, child-focused programs that support the growth, learning, and well-being of children and families. To strengthen community-based systems by empowering providers to deliver equitable........

Youth Development
11
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
12
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Steps Kent and the most unlike its peers is Blueprint North Carolina. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEARN TO EARN DAYTON — $22,000 · EducationLEARN TO EARN DAYTONTHE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER — $20,000 · EducationTHE WASHINGTON STEM CENTERPRESCHOOL PROMISE INC — $8,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL PROMISE INCBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $6,500 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINAFIRST STEPS KENT — $6,000 · EducationFIRST STEPS KENTPOUGHKEEPSIE CHILDRENS CABINET INC — $22,000 · OtherPOUGHKEEPSIE CHILDRENS CABINET …UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA — $22,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWAUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc — $22,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of T…CHILDREN NOW — $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NOWTHE SYCAMORE INSTITUTE INC — $8,070 · Public Benefit
Education$62,500Other$44,000Philanthropy$22,000Human Services$20,000Public Benefit$8,070

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPOUGHKEEPSIE CHILDRENS CABINET INC — $22,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLEARN TO EARN DAYTON — $22,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA — $22,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc — $22,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN NOW — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SYCAMORE INSTITUTE INC — $8,070 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPRESCHOOL PROMISE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST STEPS KENT — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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's Funding Project 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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