Texas · Public charity
The Children's Fund Inc
The children's fund, inc. Is organized and operated to support all types of organizations formed to provide medical and social care for the needy and deserving children in the greater houston metropolitan area. Recipient organizations are nominated by the sponsors (volunteer membership) of the children's fund, inc. A charity selection…
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $577k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Children's Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $1.4M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.3M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $1.1M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $886k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $506k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $675k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $650k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees | $430,960 | 4 | 28% |
| San Francisco Nativity Academy | $402,125 | 3 | 11% |
| Entrusted Houston | $365,000 | 3 | 73% |
| Harbor Christian Academy | $359,454 | 4 | 18% |
| All Ears Listening and Language Center | $345,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Project One Day | $300,500 | 3 | 33% |
| Clothed by Faith Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 30% |
| Foster Care Advocacy Center | $299,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Champions Institute | $279,000 | 3 | 70% |
| Iconoclast Artists | $247,500 | 5 | 23% |
Show all 64 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
The Children's Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Junior League of Houston Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Texas Children's Hospital · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Houston Junior Forum Inc
How this is measured
About The Children's Fund Inc
- How much does The Children's Fund Inc give?
- The Children's Fund Inc reported 18 grants totaling $1,377,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Children's Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (19%), Education (19%).
- Who are The Children's Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Partnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees ($431k), San Francisco Nativity Academy ($402k), Entrusted Houston ($365k).
- Does The Children's Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Children's Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc.
- Where is The Children's Fund Inc based?
- The Children's Fund Inc is based in TX.
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