· Public charity
The Childrens Scholarship Fund
The Children's Scholarship Fund (CSF) empowers families by providing children in need with scholarships, and by supporting expanded educational opportunities for all children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $2,670,801 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $20,145,756 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,474,955 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $624k
- $250k+5 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Basic Fund | $768,318 |
| Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia | $300,000 |
| The BISON Children's Scholarship Fund Inc | $285,000 |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $275,000 |
| Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha | $250,000 |
| Today and Tomorrow Educational Foundation | $184,750 |
| Memphis Oppprtunity Scholarship Trust Inc | $108,835 |
| Catholic Partnership Schools | $105,000 |
| Palmetto Promise Institute | $100,000 |
| Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore | $75,000 |
| Seeds of Hope of Northern Colorado | $50,000 |
| Brighter Future Fund a program of the Archdiocese of Detroit | $49,448 |
| Tomorrow's Hope Foundation | $37,500 |
| Tri-County Scholarship Fund | $30,000 |
| CEO Foundation of Connecticut | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +0% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TBTHE BASIC FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +28%
- CSCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +62%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +100%
Funded once
- PPPalmetto Promise Instituteone grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Creates partnerships to provide the resources necessary to help ohio families access the educational options which work best for their children.
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
Provide scholarships to children in catholic schools listed in the official catholic directory for the archdiocese of chicago.
The Children's Scholarship Fund (CSF) empowers families by providing children in need with scholarships, and by supporting expanded educational opportunities for all children.
The Opportunity Scholarship Fund is a scholarship granting organization that provides scholarships to Oklahoma prek-12 students to attend accredited private schools in our state. Once a student has received a scholarship, that student and…
Scholarship fund and tuition assistance to help students receive a catholic school education.
To prepare students to succeed in competitive colleges and to empower them to use public policy to create a more just, free, and equal world.
To sustain and accelerate progress in camden's public school system.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
To provide scholarships for qualified children to enable them to attend a school of their choice.
Provide scholarships to qualifying students at private schools.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund and the most unlike its peers is Palmetto Promise Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE BASIC FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST OHIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds KIDS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Palmetto Promise Institute ↗
- Who funds CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Childrens Scholarship Fund 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.
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.