New York · Private foundation
The Children's Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 45
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Children's Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $352k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $1.8M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $1.9M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $1.8M | 34% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $1.2M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $1.3M | 42% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Esalen Institute | $1,240,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $938,295 | 8 | 0% |
| Creative Time Inc | $711,500 | 8 | 12% |
| Advance Democracy Inc | $685,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Protect Democracy Project | $450,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation | $425,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Ministry of the Kordada Inc | $325,000 | 3 | 35% |
| Habits of Waste | $320,000 | 6 | 20% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $260,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Food Bank for New York City | $255,796 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Children's Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Anna Carolina and Soo Kim Foundation · Hathaway Family Foundation · Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Children's Trust
- How much does The Children's Trust give?
- The Children's Trust reported 43 grants totaling $1,796,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Children's Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (19%), Arts & Culture (14%), Public Benefit (12%).
- Who are The Children's Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Esalen Institute ($1.2M), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($938k), Creative Time Inc ($712k).
- Does The Children's Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Children's Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Children's Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Marin Community Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is The Children's Trust based?
- The Children's Trust is based in NY.
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