Washington · Nonprofit
CHILDRENS FUND
CHILDRENS FUND (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,633 to it, the largest being GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION-CARI ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHILDRENS FUND's revenue fell 93% between 2019 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,624 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Oscar T and Olivann Hokold Foundationshared funders
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio match
- The Childrens Scholarship Fundportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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 CHILDRENS FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $159k → $8k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CHILDRENS 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
CHILDRENS FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2020 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of CHILDRENS FUND's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Oscar T and Olivann Hokold Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Childrens Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Retailroi Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Palmer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact13 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Douglas G Halliday Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yli Believe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nailba Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wings of Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Loh Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beygood Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHILDRENS FUND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDRENS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDRENS FUND?
- CHILDRENS FUND (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,633 to it, the largest being GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION-CARI ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDRENS FUND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $177,633 in grants to CHILDRENS FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDRENS FUND?
- GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION-CARI is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDRENS FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2019–2020), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing