New York · 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.
- $20M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $768,318
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $65M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Childrens Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $2.7M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $2.6M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $2.4M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $3.0M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Basic Fund | $4,692,684 | 6 | 9% |
| Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia | $2,043,825 | 6 | 5% |
| Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha | $1,787,234 | 6 | 15% |
| The Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc | $1,755,026 | 6 | 5% |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $1,586,203 | 6 | 1% |
| Today and Tomorrow Educational Foundation | $1,219,985 | 6 | n/a |
| Catholic Partnership Schools Camden | $737,704 | 6 | 3% |
| Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust Inc | $660,926 | 6 | 20% |
| Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore | $477,250 | 6 | 13% |
| Seeds of Hope of Northern Colorado Inc | $351,927 | 6 | 3% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Basic Fund | $4,692,684 | 6 | 9% |
| Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia | $2,043,825 | 6 | 5% |
| Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha | $1,787,234 | 6 | 15% |
| The Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc | $1,755,026 | 6 | 5% |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $1,586,203 | 6 | 1% |
| Today and Tomorrow Educational Foundation | $1,219,985 | 6 | n/a |
| Catholic Partnership Schools Camden | $737,704 | 6 | 3% |
| Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust Inc | $660,926 | 6 | 20% |
| Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore | $477,250 | 6 | 13% |
| Seeds of Hope of Northern Colorado Inc | $351,927 | 6 | 3% |
| Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children | $325,217 | 6 | n/a |
| Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund Inc | $284,646 | 5 | 68% |
| Tomorrow's Hope Foundation Inc | $250,001 | 6 | 55% |
| Tri-County Scholarship Fund | $200,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kids Scholarship Fund Inc | $167,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Archdiocese of Detroit | $157,396 | 6 | n/a |
| Palmetto Promise Institute | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Cascade Policy Institute | $75,910 | 6 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
The Childrens Scholarship Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 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: 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
How this is measured
About The Childrens Scholarship Fund
- How much does The Childrens Scholarship Fund give?
- The Childrens Scholarship Fund reported 17 itemized grants totaling $2,670,801, out of $20,145,756 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Childrens Scholarship Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are The Childrens Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Basic Fund ($4.7M), Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia ($2.0M), Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha ($1.8M).
- Does The Childrens Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Childrens Scholarship Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Childrens Scholarship Fund based?
- The Childrens Scholarship Fund is based in NY.
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