Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Children's Funding Project
CHILDREN'S FUNDING PROJECT helps communities and states expand equitable opportunities for children and youth through strategic public financing.
- $185k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $46,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $46,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Children's Funding Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $139k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $86k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $8k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $41k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poughkeepsie Childrens Cabinet Inc | $68,200 | 2 | 4% |
| Learn to Earn Dayton | $68,200 | 2 | 1% |
| United Way of Muscatine Iowa | $68,200 | 2 | 2% |
| Children Now | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Washington STEM Center | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Sycamore Institute Inc | $8,070 | 1 | 1% |
| Preschool Promise Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blueprint North Carolina | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| First Steps Kent | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Children's Funding Project supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Children's Funding Project
- How much does Children's Funding Project give?
- Children's Funding Project reported 4 grants totaling $184,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Children's Funding Project fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Philanthropy (28%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Children's Funding Project's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Poughkeepsie Childrens Cabinet Inc ($68k), Learn to Earn Dayton ($68k), United Way of Muscatine Iowa ($68k).
- Does Children's Funding Project fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Children's Funding Project?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Children's Funding Project based?
- Children's Funding Project is based in DC.
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