How much did THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY grant in FY2023?

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$354kInternational$113kYouth Development$103kRecreation & Sports$69kHuman Services$35kPhilanthropy$25kCommunity Improvement$20kHealth$10kOther$836k

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

creativityinspirecommunicationlearningartsbuildvision

2020

foster caresupervisioncare systemfoundlinglow-incomevisionalvin ailey

2021

alvin aileylow-incomeprepare

2022

boys girlssummercounselingagesenhancenycaccess

2023

health

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

03FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k2 grants · $19k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$531M

Total assets

Largest grants

CHILDREN'S AID COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL$500,000
NEW VISION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$15,000
NEW YORK EDGE$10,000
KIPPS BAY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC$9,900
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MOSHOLU$9,000

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 (FY20–20, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.0M · 13 repeat orgs$296k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$296k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%

+62%

Still filing today

92%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

CA
children's aid college prep charter school
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +72%
PN
PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOOD INC
4× · 2018–2021 · $379k · revenue +68%
KB
KIPPS BAY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
2× · 2022–2023 · $52k · revenue +54%

Funded once

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue +41%
TN
THE NEW YORK FOUNDLINGgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +62%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METROgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +114%

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.

Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Charter school based in various sections of the bronx, serving grades k-8. the school was established to prepare young people from new york city to compete for admission to, and succeed in, top public, private, and parochial schools. bcse…

Education

The Bronx Charter School for

Elementary education grades kindergarten to seventh

Education

Brooklyn Kindergarten Society

Bks mission to ensure that the children in its centers develop the social, emotional, physical and cognitive skills they need to succeed.

Education

Bronx Charter School

Bronx charter school for better learning provides its students with a solid foundation for academic success, through achievements that exceeds citywide averages and meets or exceeds new york state standards and national norms in all…

Education

Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh Inc

Education & recreation

Human Services

Kipp Nyc Public Charter Schools

Operate and maintain a public school chartered by the new york state board of regents.

Education

Nyc Kids Rise Inc

Nyc kids rise, inc. is a nonprofit organization working to expand economic opportunityand equity by providing families, schools, and communities with a way to work together to save for their children's education. building on the dreams and…

Youth Development

Brooklyn Youth Sports Club Inc

Bkysc assist brooklyn youth in their pursuit of college enrollment using basketball as the hook for academic engagement and character development by combining intensive basketball programming and rigorous academic support. bkysc builds an…

Recreation & Sports

The Child Study Center of New York

To provide a program for children with special needs, ages three to five years by utilizing the disciplines of psychology, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy as integral functions of the educational program.

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Beginning With Children Foundation Inc

To improve public education opportunities of urban children in ny.

Education

Innovation Charter High School

Public charter high school in new york city that promotes leadership through innovation.

Education

Kipp New York Inc

To provide support for kipp nyc schools and programs

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of Boston College. 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 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/32

the rest of the field

10%

3,281/32,767

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

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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)

25/25

Grantees still filing

18/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$1,732,147Other$890,936Arts & Culture$354,280International$113,162Youth Development$102,800Recreation & Sports$68,875Human Services$35,000

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.

Robin Hood FoundationNY23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · United Way of New York City · American Express Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Expanded Schools Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Td Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America

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 THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get 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: BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MOSHOLU.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 208017249 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MOSHOLU, 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 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
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 The Children's Aid Society?

Find your warmest path to The Children's Aid Society 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.

THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY

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

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Children's Aid Society?

More from the funding graph

THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY

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

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Children's Aid Society?

More from the funding graph