Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,173 to it, the largest being Nimick Forbesway Foundation ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Pittsburgh Penguins Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Nashared funderslocal
- Robert I Glimcher Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
9% of THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION’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
THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
100% of THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Pittsburgh Penguins Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 124 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Nashared funderslocalPA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 147 organizations near you
- Robert I Glimcher Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brett Boyer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phillip H Wimmer and Betty L Wimmer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert S and Louise S Kahn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Howard Hanna Children's Free Care Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Parent Project for Muscular Dystrophy Research Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ovid D Robinson Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert a & Christine J Pietrandrea Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Federated Investors Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teamconnor Childhood Cancer 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 THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- The Early Learning Institute · exempt
- The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh · exempt
- The Children's Institute Parent Company · exempt
- The Day School · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE 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.
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 THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION?
- THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,173 to it, the largest being Nimick Forbesway Foundation ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $520,173 in grants to THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION?
- Nimick Forbesway Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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