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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 FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$3.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Youth Development$65MHuman Services$1.2M
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $177k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+14 grants · $12M
$219,750
Median grant
19
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH RESOURCES INC$3,391,500
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - STOCKTON$1,797,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN WASHINGTON$1,102,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN OREGON$949,350
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE$713,750
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA$624,470
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON$582,428
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LOS ANGELES$515,135
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - WESTERN MONTANA$403,020
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - NEW YORK$395,100
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - FARGO-MOORHEAD$348,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TAMPA BAY$287,305
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TACOMA$285,750
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN MONTANA$274,863
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PORTLAND$233,563
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $20.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $264k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN IDAHO: $803k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY: $1.4M → 11%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HOUSTON: $749k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TAMPA: $413k → 12%YOUTH RESOURCES INC: $4.7M → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY: $804k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN WASHINGTON: $1.1M → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $591k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - FARGO-MOORHEAD: $425k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $227k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN IDAHO: $210k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY: $27k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HOUSTON: $223k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TAMPA BAY: $287k → 12%YOUTH RESOURCES INC: $3.4M → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY: $249k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $300k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - FARGO-MOORHEAD: $394k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $122k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN IDAHO: $157k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HOUSTON: $26k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TAMPA: $283k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY: $153k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $283k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - FARGO-MOORHEAD: $348k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $112k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TAMPA BAY: $182k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY: $142k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $183k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - FARGO-MOORHEAD: $200k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $100k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TAMPA: $175k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY: $99k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $63k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - FARGO-MOORHEAD: $153k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $78k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TAMPA: $174k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY: $55k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $57k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - FARGO-MOORHEAD: $102k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $63k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TAMPA BAY: $100k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $46k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - FARGO-MOORHEAD: $100k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $62k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TAMPA BAY: $30k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$63M · 29 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
3

Total granted

$63M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalHealthOther

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

  • YR
    YOUTH RESOURCES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8.1M · revenue +1% · 94% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +153% · 57% of their budget
  • FL
    FOTC - LOS ANGELES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +299% · 77% of their budget

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - STOCKTON
    one grant, 2025 · $1.8M
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2025 · $1.1M · 84% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN OREGON
    one grant, 2025 · $949k · 80% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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.

Youth Development
2
Friends of the Children - Texas

The objectives of friends of the children - texas are to sustain and grow existing friends of the children chapters in austin and houston, expand and build new friends of the children chapters in other texas cities, and enhance the…

Human Services
3
Friends for Youth Inc

Empowering underserved youth through mentorship and community relationships.

Youth Development
4
Friends of the Children - Portland Foundation

The foundation raises private donations and manages investments for the future use of friends of the children-portland program. friends of the children-portland provides long-term mentors to portland's most vulnerable children.

Youth Development
5
Friends of Children of Walla Walla

Identify youths at high risk and provide an adult friend to help build a caring, trusting relationship.

Youth Development
6
Circle of Friends for Kids
International
7
Friends of Alaska's Children in Care

The mission of friends of alaska's children in care is to improve outcomes for children and youth in state and tribal care.

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8
Friends of Youth

Friends of youth partners with youth and families to provide the relationships, resources, and skills they need to attain personal growth and success.

Health
9
Friends School Inc

Friend's school is a supportive, dynamic community committed to educating the whole child head, hand, and heart and to training exceptional teachers for tomorrow's classrooms. we provide a strong academic foundation while developing…

Education
10
Colorado Volunteers in Juvenile & Criminal Justice

The mission of Friends for Youth is to support positive youth development for at-risk youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems by providing caring adult mentors life enriching experiences and enhanced community resulting in…

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11
Friends of the Family Inc

Further the development of youths

Education
12
Friends of Children Inc

The organization is a child advocacy agency that provides information, referral services, and training to volunteers as advocates for court involved children.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children - Seattle and the most unlike its peers is Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 6 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%33%<5yr14%40%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%24%<5yr14%45%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 33% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,533

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

32 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.

20
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON — $5,691,064 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTONFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA — $2,417,534 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMAFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH — $2,369,261 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAHFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE — $2,343,107 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLEFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA — $2,102,249 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANAFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $1,937,878 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLANDFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN — $1,709,618 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTINFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TWIN CITIES — $1,652,360 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TWIN CITIESFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PHOENIX — $1,648,770 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PHOENIXFriends of the Children - Colorado — $1,429,020 · Youth DevelopmentFriends of the Children - ColoradoFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON — $1,115,186 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN OREGON — $949,350 · Youth Development+1 more — $541,828 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH RESOURCES INC — $8,105,138 · Human ServicesYOUTH RESOURCES INCFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO- MOORHEAD — $1,721,674 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO- MOORHE…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- TAMPA BAY INC — $1,644,517 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- TAMPA BAY IN…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO — $1,553,581 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA — $1,534,053 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTA…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY — $1,502,571 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTYFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY — $1,409,712 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA V…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN IDAHO — $1,170,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN IDA…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN WASHINGTON — $1,102,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC — $1,026,997 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HOUSTON — $998,532 · Human ServicesFOTC - LOS ANGELES — $5,151,568 · EducationFOTC - LOS ANGEL…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - STOCKTON — $1,797,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE C…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA — $1,512,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE C…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PHILADELPHIA — $1,207,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE C…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK — $3,076,532 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT — $1,623,370 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA — $3,235,374 · HealthTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC — $1,226,845 · Other
Youth Development$25,907,225Human Services$21,768,775Education$9,668,068Crime & Legal$4,699,902Health$3,235,374Other$1,226,845

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUTH RESOURCES INC — $8,105,138 over 2y, 94% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON — $5,691,064 over 5y, 57% of budgetFOTC - LOS ANGELES — $5,151,568 over 8y, 77% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA — $3,235,374 over 4y, 100% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK — $3,076,532 over 8y, 19% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA — $2,417,534 over 6y, 97% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH — $2,369,261 over 6y, 100% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE — $2,343,107 over 8y, 23% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA — $2,102,249 over 5y, 21% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $1,937,878 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO- MOORHEAD — $1,721,674 over 7y, 39% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN — $1,709,618 over 8y, 36% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TWIN CITIES — $1,652,360 over 3y, 81% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PHOENIX — $1,648,770 over 4y, 70% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- TAMPA BAY INC — $1,644,517 over 8y, 73% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT — $1,623,370 over 6y, 91% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO — $1,553,581 over 8y, 28% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA — $1,534,053 over 3y, 80% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA — $1,512,500 over 8y, 27% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY — $1,502,571 over 6y, 21% of budgetFriends of the Children - Colorado — $1,429,020 over 5y, 21% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY — $1,409,712 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC — $1,226,845 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PHILADELPHIA — $1,207,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN IDAHO — $1,170,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON — $1,115,186 over 8y, 22% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN WASHINGTON — $1,102,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC — $1,026,997 over 8y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HOUSTON — $998,532 over 3y, 89% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN OREGON — $949,350 over 1y, 80% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN — $541,828 over 8y, 9.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Silicon Valley Commun…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…M J Murdock Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
The Oregon Community FoundationOR17.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Friends of the Children 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Friends of the Children- Central Oregon — 16% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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