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Save The Children Federation Inc
Save the children believes every child deserves a future.
$633M
Granted FY2024
239
Grants
25
Communities
$6.7M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of Save The Children Federation Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
2018
humanitrian activityhumanitarian activitylivelihoods activityhealth activity
2019
humanitrian activityactivity educationalmultiple prgmprgm actvylivelihoods activitychurchhealth activity
2020
humanitrian activitylegalimmigrationprgm actvymultiple prgmseekingfoodbank
2021
humanitarian activitymultiple prgmprgm actvynutrition activitybrownsvillesocialcatholic
2022
multiple prgmprgm actvyhelpssuccesscareresilienceempower
2023
poverty activityhealth nutritionnutrition activitymultiple prgmprgm actvyborderrefugees
2024
multiple activitylivelihoods activity
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 239 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k76 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k89 grants · $11M
- $250k+50 grants · $43M
$70,681
Median grant
25
States reached
$549M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SAVE THE CHILDREN ACTION NETWORK$6,740,824
- TANGO INTERNATIONAL INC$3,910,372
- INNOVATION FOR POVERTY ACTION$2,151,252
- MERCY CORPS$2,002,059
- CAUSAL DESIGN INC$1,974,708
- SCUS HEAD START PROGRAMS INC$1,891,834
- PERRY CO BOARD OF EDUCATION$1,276,441
- CLAY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$1,238,580
- WHITLEY CO BOARD OF ED$1,112,469
- BEREA COLLEGE OFFC OF FN'L AFF$1,077,045
- GREENE COUNTY SCHOOLS$1,062,373
- COCKE CO BOARD OF EDUCATION$1,014,292
- THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$988,204
- LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC$800,000
- LETCHER COUNTY SCHOOLS$702,934
02The need
04
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 (FY17–24, $17.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 85% 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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$363M · 468 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
468 repeat relationships — 191 still active in FY2024, 277 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
468
466
Total granted
$363M
$14M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+54%
+34%
Still filing today
44%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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
- STSave the Children Action Network8× · 2017–2024 · $43M · revenue +10% · 91% of their budget
- MCMercy Corps8× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +51%
- IFInnovation for Poverty Action7× · 2018–2024 · $7.9M · revenue +24%
Funded once
- FAFundacion Atencion Atenciongraduatedone grant, 2019 · $310k · revenue +251%
- AIAMERICAN INSTITUTES - RESEARCH BEHAVIORAL SCIENCESone grant, 2022 · $305k · revenue -4%
- DCDOUGLAS CHEROKEE ECONOMIC AUTHORITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $303k · revenue +27%
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
Texans Care for Children Inc
Texas Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to life.
Crime & Legal
2
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc
To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care & education through integrated support & expertise.
Human Services
3
Family & Children Services Inc
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.
Human Services
4
Community Action Corporation of South Texas
To continuously improve the lives of South Texans by providing high quality health care, education, housing and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.
Human Services
5
Duplin County Partnership for Children
The Duplin County Partnership for Children is a catalyst for the development, expansion, and promotion of positive quality opportunities for all children ages 0-12 and their families.
Education
6
Alabama Partnership for Children
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
Education
7
Nuevo Amanecer Latino Children's
Nuevo Amanecer Latino (Nuevo) Children's Services provides our children and families with love, education and family based concurrent planning services.
Human Services
8
Children's Council of San Francisco
Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.
Human Services
9
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
Human Services
10
Children's Bureau Inc
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Human Services
11
Feeding San Diego
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals... feeding san diego is on a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community…
Food & Nutrition
12
Ccs Early Learning
Making a difference in the lives and families of young children within our community. We do this by providing Head Start, Early Head Start and Preschool Services.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Center for the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
1%14/1,158
the rest of the field
11%
206,151/1,818,407
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
506 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
30
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
163
Early backer (in before they grew)
479/506
Grantees still filing
396/506
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$253,597,135Civil Rights$42,663,352Education$29,350,144International$21,580,184Human Services$19,358,346Social Science$8,235,686Youth Development$3,932,877
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.
- Who funds Save the Children Action Network ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds Innovation for Poverty Action ↗
- Who funds SCUS HEAD START PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Collaborative for Children ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE OFFC OF FN'L AFF ↗
- Who funds The Administrators of the Tulane Edu Fund ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CENTRAL ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico IncPR35× affinity22 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc · The Onestar Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Berea College · The George W Bush Foundation · Jobs for Kentucky's Graduates Inc · Houston Texans Foundation · Share Our Strength · Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation · Collaborative for Children · Puerto Rico Community 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 Save The Children Federation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Scus Head Start Programs Inc — 93% of income from government
- Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Early Learning Coalition of Miami — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2rely on government for over half their income
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: PERRY COUNTY YOUTH CENTERS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 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 813509923 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 PERRY COUNTY YOUTH CENTERS, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained 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 Save The Children Federation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Save The Children Federation Inc 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines