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The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$145M
Granted FY2022
29
Grants FY2022
25
Organizations funded FY2022
44%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$139,056,700
Organizations funded a year
17 to 30
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 44% of the organizations The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202225$145M44%
FY202128$4.2M25%
FY202030$3.6M60%
FY201917$4.3M41%
FY201818$2.7M39%
FY201718$1.7Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$144MInternational$8.8MEducation$6.7MScience & Tech$6.5MReligion$3.2MFood & Nutrition$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$400kHealth$400kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
DC
LA
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Big Win Philanthropy Inc$139,056,7001100%
Path$500,00010%
Johns Hopkins University$403,13950%
Id Insight Inc$268,74711%
United States Association for UNHCR$250,00010%
Engineers Without Borders- International$237,3622n/a
Social Finance Inc$203,85712%
The Synergos Institute Inc$187,76921%
Sightsavers Inc$172,40021%
United States Fund for Unicef$150,00010%
Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($19M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBig Win Philanthropy Inc: $139,056,700 over 1y, 100% of budgetPath: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $403,139 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetId Insight Inc: $268,747 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSocial Finance Inc: $203,857 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Synergos Institute Inc: $187,769 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSightsavers Inc: $172,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResults for Development Institute Inc: $147,144 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Museum for African Art D/B/A the Africa Center: $110,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetGivedirectly Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElton John AIDS Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEvidence Action: $84,232 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStaying Alive Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHuman Rights First: $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLast Mile Health: $54,904 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for All Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEducate: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $36,340 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetAmerica's Voice Education Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEAD Africa: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookings Institution: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMore Than Me Foundation Inc: $5,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Gates FoundationWA21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Big Win Philanthropy Inc · Park Avenue Charitable Fund · Mulago Foundation · Skoll Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney

How much does The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney give?
The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney reported 29 grants totaling $145,313,418 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (84%), International (5%), Education (4%).
Who are The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Big Win Philanthropy Inc ($139M), Path ($500k), Johns Hopkins University ($403k).
Does The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney 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 Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Conrad N Hilton Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney based?
The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation Dba Big Win Philanthropy C/O Day Pitney is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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