Oregon · Public charity
Friends of the Children
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with paid professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what.
- $13M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $219,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,391,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Friends of the Children funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.3M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $13M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $15M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $9.5M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $6.5M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $4.6M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $8.7M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $3.8M | 8% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $4.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Resources Inc | $8,105,138 | 2 | 94% |
| Friends of the Children - Sw Washington | $5,691,064 | 5 | 57% |
| Fotc - Los Angeles | $5,151,568 | 8 | 77% |
| Friends of the Children - He Sapa | $3,235,374 | 4 | 100% |
| Friends of the Children- New York | $3,076,532 | 8 | 19% |
| Friends of the Children Tacoma | $2,417,534 | 6 | 97% |
| Friends of the Children - Utah | $2,369,261 | 6 | 100% |
| Friends of the Children - Seattle | $2,343,107 | 8 | 23% |
| Friends of the Children - Montana | $2,102,249 | 5 | 21% |
| Friends of the Children-Portland | $1,937,878 | 8 | 8% |
Show all 32 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Friends of the Children supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 20 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Friends of the Children
- How much does Friends of the Children give?
- Friends of the Children reported 32 grants totaling $13,475,394 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Friends of the Children fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (98%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Friends of the Children's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Youth Resources Inc ($8.1M), Friends of the Children - Sw Washington ($5.7M), Fotc - Los Angeles ($5.2M).
- Does Friends of the Children fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Friends of the Children?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Friends of the Children based?
- Friends of the Children is based in OR.
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