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The Children's Partnership

THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP (tcp) is a california advocacy organization advancing child health equity through research, policy and community engagement.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$1.2MCrime & Legal$565kEducation$339kCivil Rights$255kHuman Services$227kPhilanthropy$150kCommunity Improvement$60kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $1,436,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,483,212 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,712 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $264k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $750k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO -HEALTH CONSUMER ALLIANCE$400,000
LATINO COALITION FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA A PROJECT OF TIDES$150,000
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM$150,000
WESTERN CENTER ON LAW & POVERTY$150,000
BLACK CALIFORNIANS UNITED FOR EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION$50,000
SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY VENTURES$50,000
GRACE$50,000
SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY BIRTH CENTER$50,000
A BLACK EDUCATION NETWORK (ABEN)$50,000
CALIFORNIA BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH PROJECT$50,000
SEIU LOCAL 99$40,000
CALIFORNIA PRETERM BIRTH INITIATIVE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISC$35,000
CALIFORNIANS FOR JUSTICE (CFJ)$35,000
FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS$35,000
INNERCITY STRUGGLE$35,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $8k → 10%CASA FAMILIAR: $5k → 11%SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY VENTURES: $50k → 13%TWO FEATHERS NATIVE AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 18%THE JUSTICE FOR GIRLS COALITION OF WASHINGTON STATE: $20k → 9%CALIFORNIA CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $640k → 10%SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY VENTURES: $10k → 13%CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK: $35k → 10%CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK: $10k → 10%LATINO COALITION FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA A PROJECT OF TIDES: $150k → 10%PARA LOS NIOS: $8k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $35k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $14k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
CA
NM
SC
DC
GA

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 — 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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$712k · 15 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
25

Total granted

$712k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+57%

Still filing today

80%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $777k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther

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

  • G
    GRACE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +319%
  • CB
    California Black Womens Health Project
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +82%
  • BC
    BLACK CALIFORNIANS UNITED FOR EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • CC
    California Children and Families Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $640k · revenue +20% · 45% of their budget
  • NB
    National Black Womens Justice Institite Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $130k · revenue +117%
  • CATALYST CALIFORNIAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +107%

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
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.

Health
2
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

California latinas for reproductive justice (clrj) is a statewide organization committed to honoring the experiences of latinas to uphold our dignity, our bodies, sexuality, and families. we build latinas' power and cultivate leadership…

Health
3
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
4
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
5
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
6
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
7
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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8
California Consortium for Urban Indian Health

The mission of ccuih is to facilitate shared development resources for our members and to raise public awareness in order to support a health and wellness network that meets the needs of american indians living in urban communities in…

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9
California Black Health Network

The Organization advocates for health equity by leading and facilitating convenings in all regions of California for the purpose of providing policy analysis, research and training that promotes best practices, which supports the creation…

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10
Water Education for Latino Leaders

Well educates and trains local latino elected officials about california water policy to promote timely and equitable actions that serve to develop a robust economy, healthy communities, and a resilient environment for all californians.

Human Services
11
Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
12
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Viet Rainbow of Orange County. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr17%44%20–35yr12%15%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
15%
22,720/155,961

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.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
24/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

California Children and Families Foundation Inc — $640,355 · Human ServicesCalifornia Children and Families Foundat…TIDES CENTER — $150,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERVENTURES — $60,000 · Human ServicesVENTURESINNERCITY STRUGGLE — $49,112 · Human ServicesCalifornia Child Care Resource and Referral Network — $45,000 · Human Services+6 more — $80,000 · Human Services+6 moreLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $400,000 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGONational Black Womens Justice Institite Inc — $130,000 · OtherNational Black Womens Justice Institi…A Black Education Network — $60,000 · OtherA Black Education NetworkGRACE — $60,000 · OtherGRACESAN DIEGO COMMUNITY BIRTH CENTER — $60,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO COMMUNITY BIRTH CENTERUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $45,000 · OtherSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL NO 99 — $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $35,000 · Other+9 more — $130,622 · Other+9 moreNATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC — $150,000 · HealthNATIONAL H…California Black Womens Health Project — $60,000 · HealthCalifornia…BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $20,000 · HealthBLACK WOME…BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC — $20,000 · HealthBLACK GIRL…HEALTH IN PARTNERSHIP — $14,000 · Health+1 more — $7,500 · HealthBLACK CALIFORNIANS UNITED FOR EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION — $60,000 · EducationBLACK CAL…FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS — $45,000 · EducationFAMILIES …GENTE ORGANIZADA — $40,000 · EducationGENTE ORG…The Education Trust Inc — $28,000 · EducationThe Educa…NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK — $21,000 · EducationNACA-INSP…CHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationCHICAGO F…EVERYBLACKGIRL INC — $20,000 · EducationEVERYBLAC…VISION Y COMPROMISO — $10,000 · EducationWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc — $150,000 · Crime & LegalCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $7,500 · Crime & LegalADVANCEMENT PROJECT EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 · Civil RightsCalifornians For Justice Education Fund — $45,000 · Civil RightsMANY LANGUAGES ONE VOICE — $20,000 · Civil RightsHISPANAS ORGANIZED FOR POLITICAL EQUALITY - CALIFORNIA — $20,000 · Civil RightsCATALYST CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$1,024,467Other$960,622Health$271,500Education$244,000Crime & Legal$157,500Civil Rights$135,000Public Benefit$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCalifornia Children and Families Foundation Inc — $640,355 over 1y, 45% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $400,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNational Black Womens Justice Institite Inc — $130,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetA Black Education Network — $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGRACE — $60,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCalifornia Black Womens Health Project — $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBLACK CALIFORNIANS UNITED FOR EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION — $60,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetVENTURES — $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetADVANCEMENT PROJECT EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE — $49,112 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILIES IN SCHOOLS — $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCalifornia Child Care Resource and Referral Network — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL NO 99 — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGENTE ORGANIZADA — $40,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc — $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK — $21,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMANY LANGUAGES ONE VOICE — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEDIA ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJUSTICE FOR GIRLS COALITION OF WASHINGTON STATE — $20,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHISPANAS ORGANIZED FOR POLITICAL EQUALITY - CALIFORNIA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCalifornia Youth Connection — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDetroit Heals Detroit Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTWO FEATHERS-NAFS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEVERYBLACKGIRL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetViet Rainbow of Orange County — $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetHEALTH IN PARTNERSHIP — $14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVISION Y COMPROMISO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Rural Legal Assistance Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLATINO HEALTH ACCESS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC — $6,877 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FAMILIAR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

The California Endowm…The California Wellne…Weingart FoundationTides FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…California Community …Rockefeller Philanthr…Liberty Hill Foundati…The David and Lucile …California Physicians…Amalgamated Charitabl…Silicon Valley Commun…
The California EndowmentCA49.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Tides Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · California Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Liberty Hill Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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 organization The Children's Partnership 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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