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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 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, FY2018 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NC
TX
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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
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.

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Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development
2
Friends of the Children - Montana

Friends of the children montana has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Youth Development
3
Friends of the Children - Coachella Valley

Friends of the children coachella valley (friends cv) has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92%…

Human Services
4
Friends of the Children Tacoma

Friends of the children - tacoma is a washington based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no…

Youth Development
5
Friends of the Children- New York

Friends of the children - new york has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Crime & Legal
6
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
7
Friends of the Children - Colorado

Friends of the Children - Colorado has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Youth Development
8
Friends of the Children- Tampa Bay Inc

Friends of the children tampa bay has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Human Services
9
Friends of the Children - Phoenix

Friends of the children - phoenix has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with profesional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 83% of our youth receive…

Youth Development
10
Friends of the Children - Detroit

Friends of the children - detroit has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Crime & Legal
11
Friends of the Children - Austin

Friends of the children - austin is a texas based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years,no matter…

Youth Development
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children - Seattle; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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

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 Friends of the Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends of the Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 32 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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home