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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 FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$5.1MYouth Development$1.4MRecreation & Sports$860kEducation$770kArts & Culture$146kCommunity Improvement$14kPhilanthropy$13kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $106,893, the rows itemized in this filing. The $212,222 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $105,329 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$5,750
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER$20,000
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC$10,000
SO KIDS SOAR$6,750
CITY KIDS DC$6,625
GIRLS ON THE RUN DC$6,050
STUDENT-ATHLETES ORGANIZED TO UNDERSTAND LEADERSHIP$6,000
JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER$6,000
WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES - YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY$5,750
ALEXANDRIA SOCCER ASSOCIATION$5,750
GRASSROOTS HEALTH$5,750
DC SCORES$5,750
DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON$5,750
OPEN GOAL PROJECT$5,750
THE STAND FOUNDATION$5,600
WRESTLING TO BEAT THE STREETS DC$5,368
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $540k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL FITNESS FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%THE STAND FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%ALEXANDRIA BOXING CLUB: $50k → 14%BEACON HOUSE: $30k → 14%ALEXANDRIA BOXING CLUB: $50k → 14%BEACON HOUSE: $20k → 14%BEACON HOUSE: $13k → 14%ALEXANDRIA BOXING CLUB: $128k → 14%ALEXANDRIA BOXING CLUB: $72k → 14%ALEXANDRIA BOXING CLUB: $60k → 14%ALEXANDRIA BOXING CLUB: $50k → 14%ALEXANDRIA BOXING CLUB: $40k → 14%WANDA DURANT THE REAL MVP FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Fight for Children Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 86%.

Fight for Children Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 23 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
17

Total granted

$6.9M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+44%

Still filing today

96%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $5.0M · revenue +72%
  • CT
    COLLEGE TRACK
    3× · 2019–2021 · $600k · revenue +105%
  • AB
    Alexandria Boxing Club Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $449k · revenue +38% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • AF
    ATHLETES FOR HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $341k · revenue +105%
  • LC
    LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +58%
  • NO
    NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +302% · 46% of their budget
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
Ward 7 Blue Bulls Youth Organization

To empower and uplift the youth in under-resourced areas through comprehensive programming that takes a holistic approach for no cost or financial burden.

Recreation & Sports
2
Browne Academy

The Academy is a pre-kindergarten through grade eight independent school preparing girls and boys in the metropolitan Washington, DC area for competitive secondary schools. The Academy is a diverse independent day school committed to…

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3
Global Kids Inc

Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.

Youth Development
4
Capital Travel Sports Inc

The primary mission of capital travel sports is to bring professional coaching to all committed players; to develop their technical capability, their understanding, their love of the game, and their sportsmanship. to utilize our…

Recreation & Sports
5
Kingman Boys Club Inc

The Club provides a comprehensive spectrum of services to inner-city youth in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, with the objective of promoting moral, physical and emotional growth. The Club is committed to teaching children and…

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6
Learn Dc Public Charter School

Provide students with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree.

Education
7
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
8
Donkor Tennis & Education Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
9
Technology Playground

Technology Playground is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering youth in Washington, DC, by equipping them with the tools, knowledge, and experiences necessary to break the cycle of poverty. The organization addresses economic…

Youth Development
10
Dmv Fc Inc

Unity through excellence. dmv fc is a new youth soccer club in the greater reston-herndon, virginia area. we are a boutique club that caters to the elite athlete developing from the youngest stages. our partnership with the total futbol…

Recreation & Sports
11
Stoddert Soccer League Inc

Stoddert Soccer League, Inc. d/b/a DC Soccer Club (DCSC) is a premier 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to the youth of Washington, DC. DCSC provides a positive, fun, and developmentally focused soccer experience for approximately 7,500…

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12
Dc Preparatory Academy

Dc prep's mission is to bridge the educational divide in washington, dc by increasing the number of students from underserved communities with the academic preparation and personal character to succeed in competitive high schools and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Next One Up Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Knock Out Abuse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 42 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+2 more: $72,500 · HealthATHLETES FOR HOPE: $341,403 · Youth DevelopmentATHLETES FOR H…NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT ONE UP FO…STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTEER FOR STUD…So Kids SOAR: $83,750 · Youth DevelopmentSo Kids SOARWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $57,500 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON TEN…City Kids to Wilderness Project Inc: $38,125 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN - DC: $36,050 · Youth Development+3 more: $38,010 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLEGE TRACK: $600,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationLIVING CLASSRO…Student-Athletes Organized to Under: $70,500 · EducationStudent-Athlet…WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $57,500 · EducationWASHINGTON INT…+3 more: $56,666 · Education+3 moreAlexandria Boxing Club Inc: $449,000 · Human ServicesBEACON HOUSE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC: $62,500 · Human Services+3 more: $28,800 · Human ServicesWRESTLING TO BEAT THE STREETS DC: $83,568 · Recreation & SportsOPEN GOAL PROJECT: $44,000 · Recreation & SportsDC GRAYS BASEBALL INC: $39,000 · Recreation & SportsJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $22,320 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsPRINCE GEORGES TENNIS AND EDUCATION: $13,680 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $6,500 · Recreation & SportsDC SCORES: $126,500 · OtherALEXANDRIA SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $42,250 · OtherWASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY: $37,500 · OtherCapitol Post Inc: $13,500 · Other+2 more: $12,750 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureKNOCK OUT ABUSE: $12,500 · Philanthropy
Health$5,072,500Youth Development$1,044,838Education$1,034,666Human Services$540,300Recreation & Sports$245,068Other$232,500Arts & Culture$140,000Philanthropy$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $600,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAlexandria Boxing Club Inc: $449,000 over 7y, 100% of budgetLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetSTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $200,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetDC SCORES: $126,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSo Kids SOAR: $83,750 over 4y, 14% of budgetWRESTLING TO BEAT THE STREETS DC: $83,568 over 4y, 20% of budgetStudent-Athletes Organized to Under: $70,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetBEACON HOUSE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC: $62,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $57,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN GOAL PROJECT: $44,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetALEXANDRIA SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $42,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDC GRAYS BASEBALL INC: $39,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc: $38,125 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY: $37,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER: $36,750 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN - DC: $36,050 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetGRASSROOTS HEALTH: $35,750 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetDC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $26,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $22,320 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetELSIE WHITLOW STOKES COMMUNITY FREEDOM PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $20,666 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPRINCE GEORGES TENNIS AND EDUCATION: $13,680 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: $13,510 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCapitol Post Inc: $13,500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION ON FITNESS SPORTS AND NUTRITION: $13,200 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL COOPERATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEENS RUN DC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCAPITAL ROWING CLUB INC: $6,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON: $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…Good Sports IncThe Morris and Gwendo…Clark Charitable Foun…United Way of the Nat…Clark-Winchcole Found…Hattie M Strong Found…Dimick Foundation Joh…Dick's Sporting Goods…Nora Roberts Foundati…Philip L Graham Fund …The Carl M Freeman Fo…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC36.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Fight for Children Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fight for Children Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Living Classrooms Foundation: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 42 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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