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Childtrust Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.2MYouth Development$3.0MHuman Services$1.0MCrime & Legal$504kCivil Rights$457kPhilanthropy$355kHealth$293kEmployment$197kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $707k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP CORRAL$250,000
EDUCATION NC$125,000
NC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
NC EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION$100,000
REACH OUT AND READ INC$100,000
POSITIVE CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE NC$71,050
AMIR INSTITUTE$61,000
NC RURAL CENTER$50,000
STEP UP MINISTRY$50,000
WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC$40,000
EDUCATION JUSTICE ALLIANCE$40,000
LEARNING TOGETHER$35,000
EL CENTRO HISPANO$30,000
BREASTFEEDING FAMILY FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $16k → 24%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $15k → 24%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $12k → 24%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $12k → 24%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 24%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 24%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $9k → 24%PLACE OF POSSIBILITES INC: $32k → 24%LEARNING TOGETHER: $35k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $12k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 8%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $40k → 8%LEARNING TOGETHER: $15k → 8%LEARNING TOGETHER: $10k → 8%LEARNING TOGETHER: $10k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $52k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $50k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $50k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $50k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $50k → 8%SHEPHERD YOUTH RANCH INC: $2k → 8%AMIR INSTITUTE: $61k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $100k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $100k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $40k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $30k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $30k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $30k → 8%THE YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $25k → 8%THE YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $25k → 8%EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 43 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
37

Total granted

$10M
$803k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+24%

Still filing today

72%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CAMP CORRAL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +10%
  • PS
    PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $783k · revenue +374%
  • REACH OUT AND READ INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $723k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
  • KN
    KIPP NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -30%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALBEMARLE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children

Ncaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. we advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on…

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2
North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children

To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.

Philanthropy
3
North Carolina Early Education Coalition

Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, training, newsletters, fact sheets, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and…

Education
4
Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc

Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…

Human Services
5
Sparknc

Sparknc empowers students to discover careers in high-tech fields like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, software development and computer systems engineering. we help schools move away from traditional classes…

Education
6
North Carolina Assoc of Educators Inc

To advocate for members and students, to enhance the education profession, and to advance public education.

—
7
North Carolina Council On Economic Education Inc

The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…

Social Science
8
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
9
Carolina Collaborative Prep

Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.

Education
10
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
11
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
12
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educationnc; the most unlike its peers is Amir Institute. 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

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NC EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION: $754,375 · OtherNC EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATIONNC CHILD: $437,375 · OtherNC CHILDPositive Childhood Alliance North Carolina: $400,375 · OtherPositive Childhood Alliance North Carol…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $387,375 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL CAROLINABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $322,375 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INCNC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $310,000 · OtherNC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONNURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $215,000 · OtherNURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIPSTEP UP MINISTRIES: $150,000 · Other+37 more: $998,488 · Other+37 morePUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC: $782,775 · EducationPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INCREACH OUT AND READ INC: $723,375 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INCTeach for America Inc: $382,375 · EducationTeach for America IncWAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $330,375 · EducationWAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPTHE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INC: $262,375 · EducationTHE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INCSCHOOLS THAT LEAD: $162,375 · EducationDOWN EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $122,375 · Education+12 more: $493,100 · Education+12 moreCAMP CORRAL: $1,952,375 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP CORRALTHE DANIEL CENTER FOR MATH & SCIENCE INC: $133,375 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DANIEL CENTER FOR…+3 more: $87,825 · Youth DevelopmentThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $380,000 · Human ServicesThe Young …STEPUP MINISTRY: $252,375 · Human ServicesSTEPUP MIN…BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $84,375 · Human ServicesBERTIE COU…EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesEAST WAKE …LEARNING TOGETHER INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesLEARNING T…AMIR INSTITUTE: $61,000 · Human ServicesAMIR INSTI…READ AND FEED: $56,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $40,000 · Human Services+3 more: $65,992 · Human Services+3 moreEDUCATIONNC: $657,375 · Public BenefitKIDZNOTES INC: $117,375 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA BALLET INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSAFECHILD: $90,000 · Crime & LegalCenter for Child and Family Health Inc: $13,550 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,975,363Education$3,259,125Youth Development$2,173,575Human Services$1,084,742Public Benefit$657,375Arts & Culture$212,375Crime & Legal$103,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP CORRAL: $1,952,375 over 8y, 20% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC: $782,775 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $723,375 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATIONNC: $657,375 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetNC CHILD: $437,375 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetPositive Childhood Alliance North Carolina: $400,375 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $382,375 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $380,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $330,375 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetTHE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INC: $262,375 over 6y, 27% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $252,375 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSCHOOLS THAT LEAD: $162,375 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE DANIEL CENTER FOR MATH & SCIENCE INC: $133,375 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetDOWN EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $122,375 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKIDZNOTES INC: $117,375 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetSTANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $106,600 over 3y, 19% of budgetSAFECHILD: $90,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $84,375 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC: $80,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetEAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $72,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLEARNING TOGETHER INC: $70,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAMIR INSTITUTE: $61,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $54,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $51,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP NORTH CAROLINA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCAROLINA BALLET INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEducation Justice Alliance: $40,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS: $35,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Methodist Home for Children Inc: $32,375 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $32,375 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSIMPLY GIRLS INCORPORATED: $27,825 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBREASTFEEDING FAMILY FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRIANGLE LITERACY COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMYFUTURENCINC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY: $20,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetHOPE REINS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Child and Family Health Inc: $13,550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARE GROUP INC: $12,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEARLY YEARS INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CAMP CORRAL ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATIONNC ↗
  • Who funds NC CHILD ↗
  • Who funds Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
  • Who funds WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds THE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOLS THAT LEAD ↗
  • Who funds THE DANIEL CENTER FOR MATH & SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWN EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
  • Who funds STANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
  • Who funds BERTIE COUNTY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
  • Who funds EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMIR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds READ AND FEED ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KIPP NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗

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.

Triangle Community Fo…United Way of the Gre…North Carolina Commun…Duke Energy FoundationAnonymous Trust U/A D…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…John Rex EndowmentFoundation for the Ca…John William Pope Fou…The Leon Levine Found…The Winston-Salem Fou…The Cannon Foundation…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC63.9× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · John Rex Endowment · Foundation for the Carolinas · John William Pope Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Childtrust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Childtrust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Schools That Lead: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Childtrust Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Childtrust Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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