How much did FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN grant in FY2024?

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN reported 29 grants totaling $15,456,783 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN based?

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN is based in OR.

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· 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.

$15M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$4.7M

Largest

01What you fund

0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Youth Development$22MHuman Services$16MEducation$7.3MCrime & Legal$4.3MHealth$2.6MOther$1.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

—

2021

mentorship kindergarten

2022

mentorship kindergarten

2023

mentorship kindergartenhours toghether

2024

mentorship kindergartenhours toghether

2025

mentorship kindergartenhours toghether

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $42k
$50k–250k18 grants · $2.4M
$250k+10 grants · $13M

$182,050

Median grant

States reached

$33M

Total assets

Largest grants

YOUTH RESOURCES INC$4,713,638
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON$3,038,791
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY$1,383,212
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PHILADELPHIA$1,190,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LOS ANGELES$624,386
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TACOMA$556,429
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA$472,210
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - NEW YORK$393,300
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH$358,850
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TWIN CITIES$276,360
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PORTLAND$225,218
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HOUSTON$223,232
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN IDAHO$210,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PHOENIX$195,270
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TAMPA BAY$182,050

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $14.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$46M · 26 repeat orgs$7.3M 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.

26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$46M

$7.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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

FO
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON
4× · 2021–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +153% · 57% of their budget
FO
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LOS ANGELES
7× · 2018–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +213% · 77% of their budget
FO
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH
5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +1% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

YR
YOUTH RESOURCES INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $4.7M · revenue +3944% · 94% of their budget
FO
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY
one grant, 2024 · $1.4M
FO
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PHILADELPHIA
one grant, 2024 · $1.2M · 99% 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.

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

Friends of the Children -

Professional mentorship for youth from kindergarten through high school

Human Services

Friends of the Children -

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 high priority youth.

Youth Development

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

Companions for Children

Companions for children provides children with voluteer adults who empower them to reach their full potential through a mentoring relationship.

Youth Development

Friends for Youth Inc

Provide Mentoring Opportunities For Disenfranchised (or other) Youth

Youth Development

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

Friends Center for Children Inc

Educate children, empower families, inspire teachers, engage community, embrace diversity, embody equity

Human Services

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

Friends of Special Children

To seek out and provide assistance in the betterment of the lives of special children in our community.

Human Services

Friends of Children Everywhere

To partner with and provide financial, physical, spiritual and strategic support to existing Christ-centered ministries committed to the restoration of vulernable children and families, breaking cycles of abuse, poverty and neglect, to…

Religion

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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children-Portland 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 7 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 26% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/29

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,536

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.

05the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/29

Grantees still filing

19/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Development$21,825,358Human Services$15,871,953Education$7,260,933Crime & Legal$4,281,802Health$2,610,904Other$1,179,845

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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA18.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Friends of the Children-Portland · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 882636267 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Friends of the Children?

Find your warmest path to Friends of the Children through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Friends of the Children?

More from the funding graph

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Friends of the Children?

More from the funding graph