How much did ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION reported 20 grants totaling $262,882 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION based?

ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION is based in NY.

ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION

Help seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation.

$263k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$30k

Largest

01What you fund

0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$1.1MEducation$99kHuman Services$16kCivil Rights$10kOther$265k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

music therapistwelcome kitspediatric emergencywall-mountedartsmusic therapyequipment

2020

sensory

2021

—

2022

music therapychildoutreachpatient careeducation research

2023

medicallycomplexyoung adultsinnovationchild professionalshealth careeducational

2024

systemmainehealthmedicalhealth careexclusively benefitbrooklyngreater

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $65k
$10k–50k12 grants · $176k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

MOUNT SINAI KRAVIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$30,000
NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN KOMANSKY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$25,000
NYC HEALTH HOSPITALSBELLEVUE$25,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFIORE$14,000
OUR LADY OF THE LAKE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$12,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS$10,000
GOOD SAMARITAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$10,000
BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY$10,000
TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
HURLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC (HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION)$10,000
UMASS MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER$9,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$9,000
NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (MIAMI CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM INC)$9,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$974k · 16 repeat orgs$502k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$974k

$402k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+49%

Still filing today

94%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

MS
MOUNT SINAI KRAVIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
5× · 2017–2022 · $215k · revenue +64%
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RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
5× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +385%
MOUNT SINAI KRAVIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
2× · 2023–2024 · $66k · revenue +58%

Funded once

TB
THE BERNARD & MILLIE DUKER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $33k
BA
BERNARD AND MILLIE DUKER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2018 · $30k
CH
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF NEW ORLEANSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +86%

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

04Your 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.

Children's Hospital Medical Center

Provision of pediatric healthcare to patients.

Health

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health

Montefiore Health System Inc

To heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve.

Health

The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities.

Health

Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health

Jefferson Memorial Hospital

Jefferson Memorial Hospital is a non-profit, critical access hospital serving the residents of the Eastern Panhandle of WV.

Health

Staten Island University Hospital

Staten Island strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality of care for the community regardless of ability to pay

Health

Morris Hospital

Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers exist to provide healthcare in a general short-term hospital in addition to delivering primary Healthcare services in the outpatient setting. The mission of Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers is to…

Health

Tufts Medical Center Physicians

The tufts medical center physicians organization, inc. coordinates the administrative and billing activities for the group practices in their mission of providing quality health care services to patients of tufts medical center, inc. and…

Health

University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. to accomplish our mission, we call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance…

Health

Illinois Children's Healthcare

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Marys Hospital for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/61

the rest of the field

10,118/120,699

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/50

Grantees still filing

41/50

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$1,086,961Other$265,107Education$98,780Human Services$15,745Civil Rights$10,000

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

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.

Joy In Childhood Foundation IncMA37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Child's Play · American Cancer Society Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Toy Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Will Rogers Motion Picture · Gamers Outreach Foundation Inc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · American Academy of Pediatrics · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Direct Relief

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 organisation ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NYC HEALTH HOSPITALSBELLEVUE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 131679615 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NYC HEALTH HOSPITALSBELLEVUE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Encourage Kids Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Encourage Kids Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Encourage Kids Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Encourage Kids Foundation?

More from the funding graph