Oregon · Nonprofit
Child Foundation
Child Foundation (Oregon) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,755,584 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,601,183). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Child Foundation does
Mission
Support underprivileged children in education and achievement of safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Iran: during the year ended may 31, 2024, Child Foundation ("the organization") continued to support disadvantaged children in iran needing assistance in order to stay in school. The children and their families were identified by a social service agency in iran, bonyad e koodak, and then referred to Child Foundation. At may 31, 2024, Child Foundation had approximately 8,292 active child sponsorships in iran.
$2,404,481 spentof which $2,404,481 as grants61% of program spendingOther program service expenses include allocated payroll and other program expenses not paid as direct program aid.
$1,013,923 spent26% of program spendingAfghanistan: during the year, the organization matched supporters (both in the united states and other countries) of disadvantaged children in afghanistan who needed assistance in order to stay in school. Child Foundation also continued to run a program for thalassemia awareness and support. At may 31, 2024, there were approximately 973 active sponsorships.
$463,306 spentof which $463,306 as grants12% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Other program service expenses include allocated payroll and other program expenses not paid as direct program aid.
$46,022 spentof which $46,022 as grants1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,927,732.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.7M to $3.1M (−46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Child Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Farideh Bakhtiari
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $78k → $360k.
12 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Child Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Child Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Child Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 25% · 2019 33% · 2020 62% · 2021 60% · 2022 63% · 2023 57% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
43% of Child Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
82% of Child Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $496k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Child Foundation's revenue grew 39% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Child Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Child Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Child Foundation?
- Child Foundation (Oregon) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,755,584 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,601,183). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Child Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $2,755,584 in grants to Child Foundation, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Child Foundation?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,601,183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Child Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing