How much does Mattel Children's Foundation give?

Mattel Children's Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $202,437 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Mattel Children's Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (12%), International (8%).

Who are Mattel Children's Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Save The Children Federation Inc ($175k), Children's Health Council Inc ($120k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($74k).

Does Mattel Children's Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mattel Children's Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mattel Children's Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.

Where is Mattel Children's Foundation based?

Mattel Children's Foundation is based in CA.

Mattel Children's Foundation

Mattel Children's Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Mattel Children's Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$202k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$62k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$945kHealth$325kInternational$209kPublic Safety & Disaster$194kHuman Services$135kArts & Culture$134kYouth Development$92kPhilanthropy$46kOther$0

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $30k
$10k–50k5 grants · $110k
$50k–250k1 grant · $62k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$152k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MATCHING GRANTS	$62,437
GOOD FOUNDATION	$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC	$25,000
MUSEIQUE	$10,000
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY	$7,500
CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION	$7,500
EMERGE CONNECTICUT	$7,500
SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER	$7,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 88% of grant dollars ($2.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($325k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

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

Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($325k)

16 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

Mexico$102k · 4 grants

China$40k · 2 grants

Canada$37k · 3 grants

Australia$25k · 1 grant

India$24k · 1 grant

Russia$12k · 2 grants

France$11k · 1 grant

Germany$11k · 1 grant

United Kingdom$11k · 1 grant

Spain$11k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 32 repeat orgs$618k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$553k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+38%

Still filing today

75%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

Save The Children Federation Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +21%
CH
CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +117%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
6× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +46%

Funded once

FM
FUNDACION MEXICANA DE APOYO INFANTIL AC
one grant, 2018 · $71k
TA
THE ALANNAH & MADELINE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $25k
M
MASOOM
one grant, 2017 · $24k

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.

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

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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Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

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

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education

South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education

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

Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New York City; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest 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

62 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. 62 of the 108 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/62

Grantees still filing

48/62

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,749,169Education$281,025International$202,778Health$187,500Arts & Culture$139,175Human Services$121,649Animals$22,500

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

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.

California Community FoundationCA19.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Fletcher Family Charitable Foundation · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Mattel Children's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mattel Children's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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