Pennsylvania · Public charity
Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation
To provide financial relief to the families of fallen and critically injured first responders at their time of greatest grief and highest need. Through our police youth alliance program, which was created by the foundation to connect cops and kids by spearheading non-enforcement, positive programs to change the dynamic between police…
- $562k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $241k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 30
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 | 15 | $241k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $246k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $364k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $528k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $340k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $286k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $599k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery County Hero Fund | $345,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 Charitable Foundation | $321,103 | 5 | 21% |
| Fraternal Order of Police South Jersey Lodge 56 | $225,000 | 7 | 51% |
| Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Founda Foundation Inc | $223,828 | 5 | 2% |
| Independence Mission Schools | $215,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Atlantic City Police Foundation Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 52% |
| Daniel Faulkner Educational Grant | $120,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Beat the Streets Wrestling Program Philadelphia | $114,039 | 5 | 4% |
| Citiznes for Fire Prevention Committee | $66,000 | 7 | 15% |
| Philabundance | $63,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Ibew Local #98 Labor Management Cooperative Committee Inc · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · The Wawa Foundation Inc · The Snider Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation with peer funders
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About Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation
- How much does Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation give?
- Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation reported 15 itemized grants totaling $240,700, out of $562,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Montgomery County Hero Fund ($345k), Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 Charitable Foundation ($321k), Fraternal Order of Police South Jersey Lodge 56 ($225k).
- Does Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Wsfs Cares Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
- Where is Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation based?
- Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation is based in PA.
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