Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Fight for Children Inc
Fight for children's mission is to help individuals, organizations, and communities in the metropolitan washington, dc area leverage the power of sports to improve the lives of underserved youth.
- $212k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $107k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,750
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Fight for Children Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $107k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $264k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $3.4M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $1.5M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $660k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $1.4M | 71% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $370k | 86% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $690k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $5,000,000 | 4 | 3% |
| College Track | $600,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Alexandria Boxing Club Inc | $449,000 | 7 | 100% |
| Athletes for Hope | $341,403 | 1 | n/a |
| Living Classrooms Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Next One Up Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Steer for Student Athletes Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 32% |
| DC Scores | $126,500 | 6 | 2% |
| The Washington Ballet | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| So Kids SOAR | $83,750 | 4 | 14% |
Show all 42 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Fight for Children Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Good Sports Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Hattie M Strong Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Fight for Children Inc
- How much does Fight for Children Inc give?
- Fight for Children Inc reported 15 itemized grants totaling $106,893, out of $212,222 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Fight for Children Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (61%), Youth Development (17%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Fight for Children Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Hospital Foundation ($5.0M), College Track ($600k), Alexandria Boxing Club Inc ($449k).
- Does Fight for Children Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fight for Children Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Good Sports Inc, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
- Where is Fight for Children Inc based?
- Fight for Children Inc is based in DC.
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