· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $6,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $141,116 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,116 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hasan's Interactive Learning Center | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $294k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CVChildren's Village Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $141k · revenue +36%
- GHGREATER HOPE MINISTRIES2× · 2021–2023 · $105k · revenue +52%
- FDFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES3× · 2021–2023 · $84k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- HMHIGHWAY MISSION TABERNACLEone grant, 2021 · $42k
- KCKOREAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTERone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -18%
- XXIENTEone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ccdc's mission is to provide the highest quality educational childcare services to families with children from infancy through their preschool years.
To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.
Our mission is to provide a nurturing and challenging montessori preschool environment for children ages 18 months to 6 years old in which children explore the world and their place in it through hands-on learning experiences and positive…
Child development centers, inc. (cdc) is a 54-year-old non-profit organization that provides child care and early childhood education for more than 1,800 children at 15 sites in venango, crawford, and erie counties, in northwestern…
Community care and learning center strives to provide accessible, qualaity child care that supports parents' ability to maintain stable employment while knowing their children are in a safe, nurturing, and enriching environment.
The mission of community montessori school is to provide authentic montessori education in a nature-rich environment that cultivates collaboration, curiosity, love of learning, and respect for oneself, others and the world.
Private Infant PreK and Elementary Education
Provide childcare services
The center's mission is to serve the children of economically diverse working families with quality childcare, early education, and nutritional services in a safe and nurturing environment.
Our mission is to provide an accessible, safe, and nurturing environment in which school-aged children learn, grow, and play to promote the development of the whole child.
The children's center provides early child care and education in a vibrant learning community that emphasizes personal development, social relationships and family involvement, in order to establish a foundation for lifelong learning.
We provide comprehensive child care, education, and child deelopment services withthe framework of quality developmental standards for children between the ages of two months and five years. We do this through supportive a and healthy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Village Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Hope Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Children's Village Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CARING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Wonderspring ↗
- Who funds KOREAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds XIENTE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METHODIST SERVICES ↗
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.
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
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 organization First Up 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.
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 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.