How much did Festival of Children Foundation grant in FY2024?

Festival of Children Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $217,135 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Festival of Children Foundation based?

Festival of Children Foundation is based in CA.

Festival of Children Foundation

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· Public charity

Festival of Children Foundation

Festival of children's mission is to improve the lives of children by strengthening the charities that serve them through fostering education, entertainment, art and community involvement.

$217k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

0164% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$317kHuman Services$301kYouth Development$127kEducation$63kArts & Culture$62kPhilanthropy$20kCivil Rights$13kAnimals$11kOther$506k

02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k5 grants · $109k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$16,686

Median grant

States reached

$674k

Total assets

Largest grants

Gold Pacific Studios LLC$100,000
Chicago Academy for Arts$32,311
Turning Pointe Autism Fdn$29,391
Jesse Rees Foundation$16,686
RoyalFamilyKidsCamp187$16,281
InZone Project$13,966
The Sanfilippo Foundation$7,500

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$902k · 10 repeat orgs$518k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$902k

$404k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+36%

Still filing today

80%

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

GG
Global Genes
2× · 2017–2018 · $193k · revenue +89%
TP
Turning Pointe Autism Foundat
6× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +199%
CA
Chicago Academy for the Arts
4× · 2018–2024 · $102k · revenue +14%

Funded once

4P
4 Paws for Ability Inc
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +2%
CureDuchennegraduated
one grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue +32%
OC
Orange County School of Artsgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +53%

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.

Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch funds & supports children's cancer research & provides education & resources to all those affected by children's cancer.

Health

The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health

Childrens Cancer Therapy

To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.

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Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services

Seriousfun Children's Network

Our mission is to create opportunities for children and their families to reach beyond serious illness and discover joy, confidence and a new world of possibilities, always free of charge.

Health

CancerFree Kids

To eradicate cancer as a life-threatening disease in children by funding promising research that might otherwise go unfunded.

Health

Autism Service Center of San Antonio Dba

THE MISSION OF THE CENTER IS TO MAXIMIZE THE POTENTIAL OF CHILDREN WITHAUTISM BY PROVIDING EARLY DIAGNOSIS FOR THOSE WITH LIMITED ACCESS ANDEDUCATING AND EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT THEM. The primary goals of ACN are to provide…

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Childrens Oncology Services Inc

We empower kids who have cancer, encouraging them to take on the world.

Health

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

Kids Can Community Center

At kids can community center, our mission is to educate, engage, and inspire children through early childhood care and out-of-school experiences.

Human Services

Focus Center for Autism Inc

Focus center for autism: helping children and adults with autism achieve their full potential.

Education

The Manhattan Childrens Center

Provides transdisciplinary behavioral intervention and education to children and young adults, ages six to twenty-one, diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Sanfilippo Foundation. 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 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/35

the rest of the field

12%

22,289/186,943

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.

04the grantee network

33 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)

29/33

Grantees still filing

22/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$529,606Health$317,294Human Services$301,381Youth Development$126,583Education$63,179Arts & Culture$62,322Philanthropy$20,000

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Oneoc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · United Way Worldwide · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation

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 Festival of Children 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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: The Happiness Project Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 113809975 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 The Happiness Project Inc, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 35% 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.

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How do I get to Festival of Children Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Festival of Children 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.

Festival of Children Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Festival of Children Foundation?

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Festival of Children Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Festival of Children Foundation?

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