Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND
CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,285,000 to it, the largest being IMPACT FELLOWS ACTION FUND ($1,170,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $441k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $409k
What Children First Action Fund does
Mission
Children First Action Fund strategically works with legislators in a bipartisan manner, in a non-partisan fashion, to help lawmakers learn what it takes for children to succeed and persuade them to support our legislative measures. We are singularly focused on increasing the number of elected officials who will champion investments and policies needed to ensure that disadvantaged children grow up in healthy, safe, and nurturing environments where they can learn and participate in enrichment activities that contribute to their lifetime success Children First Action Fund employs three proven strategies to accomplish this goal. 1.deploying highly effective government affairs strategies to educate and persuade lawmakers to fight for the policies and resources we know are necessary. 2.publishing and disseminating information to citizens to enable them to judge how well lawmakers are delivering on their duty to provide services and opportunities to help children thrive from infancy to colleg
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Children First Action Fund strategically works on both sides of the aisle, in a nonpartisan fashion, to help lawmakers learn what it takes for children to succeed and persuade them to support our legislative measures.
$65,253 spent$137,005 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $65,253.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $262k to $429k (+64%).
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.
100% of CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
David Laigaie
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $70k → $200k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 63% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND: 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 CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND?
- CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,285,000 to it, the largest being IMPACT FELLOWS ACTION FUND ($1,170,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,285,000 in grants to CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND?
- IMPACT FELLOWS ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing