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Foundation for Child Development

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$250k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$8.3MCommunity Improvement$4.1MSocial Science$1.9MPublic Benefit$1.3MCivil Rights$978kHealth$975kScience & Tech$940kEmployment$864kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.0M
$75,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$124M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC$250,000
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC$250,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$250,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$250,000
THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS$200,000
GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION$200,000
GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES$167,000
START EARLY$152,000
CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES$150,000
THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC$150,000
CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY$150,000
CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES$150,000
ERIKSON INSTITUTE$150,000
NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER$125,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$100,000
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 (FY20–25, $769k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL PARENTS UNION: $75k → 8%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $30k → 23%CHILD TRENDS INC: $114k → 8%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $134k → 8%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $95k → 8%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC: $150k → 14%CHILD TRENDS INC: $60k → 8%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $31k → 8%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $30k → 8%FIRST FOCUS: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 50 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
41

Total granted

$16M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+17%

Still filing today

78%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropySocial ScienceCivil RightsOther
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

  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +31%
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +22%
  • THE URBAN INSTITUTE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $965k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • PA
    PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE OFFICE FOR SPONSORED PROGRAMS
    one grant, 2021 · $255k
  • WW
    WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $225k
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOC OF STATE BOARDS OF ED
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 109 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/75
Grantees still filing
51/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $466,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORN…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION: $400,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS …NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $400,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLAT…NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $357,000 · OtherPRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE OFFICE FOR SPONSORED PROGRAMS: $255,000 · OtherEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION: $240,000 · OtherNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $250,000 · OtherCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $300,000 · Other+49 more: $4,367,406 · Other+49 moreResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $1,329,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the …Erikson Institute: $777,500 · EducationErikson InstituteNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 · EducationNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES I…National Louis University: $383,000 · EducationNational Louis UniversityGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $357,000 · EducationGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RE…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE LEADERS IN EARLY EDUCATION: $280,000 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STA…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $275,000 · EducationBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $255,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · Education+18 more: $856,500 · Education+18 moreTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $3,754,936 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $475,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHA…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $302,000 · Community Improvement+4 moreTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $965,000 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN I…NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $650,000 · Social ScienceNATIONAL OP…BRAZELTON TOUCHPOINTS PROJECT INC: $445,000 · Social ScienceBRAZELTON T…Society for Research in Child Development Inc: $120,000 · Social ScienceSociety for…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $400,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $172,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $54,376 · PhilanthropyCHILD TRENDS INC: $434,449 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $150,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL PARENTS UNION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesFirst Focus on Children: $50,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $30,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $475,000 · Science & Tech
Other$7,035,406Education$5,213,000Community Improvement$4,731,936Social Science$2,180,000Philanthropy$1,126,376Human Services$769,449Science & Tech$475,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $3,754,936 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $1,329,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $965,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetErikson Institute: $777,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $650,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $475,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $475,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBRAZELTON TOUCHPOINTS PROJECT INC: $445,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetCHILD TRENDS INC: $434,449 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION: $400,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Louis University: $383,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $357,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE LEADERS IN EARLY EDUCATION: $280,000 over 3y, 63% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $255,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION: $240,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetGUARDIANORG FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSTART EARLY: $225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE: $225,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY: $185,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $172,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE: $150,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $149,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $122,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for Research in Child Development Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $109,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $108,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $98,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $96,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $63,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Focus on Children: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $46,950 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT EVIDENT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAYL Institute Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% 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.

WK Kellogg FoundationGates FoundationAnnie E Casey Foundat…Pritzker Family Found…The Robert Wood Johns…The Kresge FoundationThe David and Lucile …The Heising-Simons Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…The William & Flora H…Alliance for Early Su…William T Grant Found…
WK Kellogg FoundationMI38.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · Gates Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Pritzker Family Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance · William T Grant 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 Foundation for Child Development funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Child Development. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Child Trends Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 109 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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