Massachusetts · Public charity
Children's Investment Fund Inc
The children's investment fund's (cif) primary purpose is to improve the quality of and expand access to early learning and school-age child care programs for low and moderate-income families. In order to broaden the impact of its work cif also seeks to support affordable housing for low-income families through place-based two-generation…
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 86%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $195,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $195,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Children's Investment Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 | 7 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $1.2M | 86% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $77k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $7k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $40k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $129k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $70k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Crispus Attucks Children's Center Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Paige Academy Inc | $387,660 | 2 | 8% |
| Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc | $235,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Nurtury Inc | $216,780 | 2 | 1% |
| United South End Settlements | $215,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center Inc | $195,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Vietnamese American Initiative for Development Inc | $195,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East Boston Social Centers Inc | $185,000 | 3 | 2% |
| John F Kennedy Family Service Center Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Dimock Community Foundation Inc | $117,841 | 1 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Children's Investment Fund Inc 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: Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Franklin Square House Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Health Resources in Action Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
How this is measured
About Children's Investment Fund Inc
- How much does Children's Investment Fund Inc give?
- Children's Investment Fund Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $1,109,579, out of $1,137,671 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Children's Investment Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (61%), Education (15%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are Children's Investment Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Crispus Attucks Children's Center Inc ($400k), Paige Academy Inc ($388k), Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc ($235k).
- Does Children's Investment Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Children's Investment Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Children's Investment Fund Inc based?
- Children's Investment Fund Inc is based in MA.
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