Pennsylvania · Public charity
First Up
We empower and equip early childhood professionals, families, and other adults influential in young children's lives through training, coaching and advocating to positively impact educational and developmental outcomes for young children.
- $141k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $6k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations First Up funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $140k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $82k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $333k | 90% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $62k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 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 Village Inc | $141,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Greater Hope Ministries | $105,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Federation Day Care Services D/B/A Federation Early Learning Services | $83,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Caring Center | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Highway Mission Tabernacle | $42,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Wonderspring | $41,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Xiente | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Korean Community Development Services Center | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Children's Playhouse Early Learning | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Children's Community School | $15,500 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Village Inc | $141,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Greater Hope Ministries | $105,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Federation Day Care Services D/B/A Federation Early Learning Services | $83,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Caring Center | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Highway Mission Tabernacle | $42,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Wonderspring | $41,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Xiente | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Korean Community Development Services Center | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Children's Playhouse Early Learning | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Children's Community School | $15,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Methodist Services | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wescott's Fov Child Care Center | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Pearls Academic Center LLC | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Beginning Foundation Academy | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Acclaim Academy | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget First Up supplied at peak.
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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 Reinvestment Fund Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About First Up
- How much does First Up give?
- First Up reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,000, out of $141,116 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does First Up fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (99%), Employment (1%).
- Who are First Up's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Children's Village Inc ($141k), Greater Hope Ministries ($105k), Federation Day Care Services D/B/A Federation Early Learning Services ($84k).
- Does First Up fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as First Up?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Reinvestment Fund Inc, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is First Up based?
- First Up is based in PA.
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