· Private foundation
The Steve & Paula Child Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREE PRESS | $33,000 |
| HEAL UTAH | $25,000 |
| ALONZO KING LINES BALLET | $20,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF UTAH | $6,000 |
| THE 19TH NEWS | $5,000 |
| KPCW RADIO | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FPFREE PRESS9× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +55%
- HEHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF UTAH6× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +8%
- T1THE 19TH NEWS4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IRIntegrative Restoration Institute DBA iRest Instituteone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -37%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +67%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and national geographic fellow paul salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 24,000-mile, multi-year odyssey that begins in ethiopia and ends in tierra del fuego.
Park avenue armory's mission is to enable a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in new york. with its soaring…
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The performance art museum (pam) is the first u.s. institution exclusively dedicated to the presentation and preservation of live art. our mission is to facilitate the powerful impact of live experiences that can profoundly transform our…
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
The mission of kvie is to inspire you to explore the world and connect with your community through the integrity of public media.
Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.
Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds ALONZO KING LINES BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds Integrative Restoration Institute DBA iRest Institute ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds Community Wireless of Park City ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Steve & Paula Child Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steve & Paula Child Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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