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UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being EMET VEMUNAH SAM & SAMANTHA SASSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$667k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$520k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What United Childrens Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

The organization was formed as a supporting organization to ucef fund inc. The organization's support of the programs of ucef fund include funding scholarship programs for children attending orthodox jewish religious and education institutions meeting certain eligibility requirements, including financial restrictions on their family income.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Supporting the programs of ucef fund inc by funding scholarshipprograms for children attending orthodox jewish religious and education institutions meeting certain eligibility requirements,including financial restrictions on their family income.

    $542,862 spentof which $516,862 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $542,862.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($482k) Expenses 100 ($358k) Net assets 100 ($124k)2018 Revenue 106 ($511k) Expenses 127 ($456k) Net assets 145 ($179k)2019 Revenue 177 ($851k) Expenses 208 ($744k) Net assets 231 ($285k)2020 Revenue 103 ($495k) Expenses 194 ($696k) Net assets 68 ($85k)2021 Revenue 258 ($1.2M) Expenses 199 ($712k) Net assets 496 ($614k)2022 Revenue 190 ($916k) Expenses 287 ($1.0M) Net assets 407 ($504k)2023 Revenue 175 ($842k) Expenses 255 ($911k) Net assets 351 ($434k)2024 Revenue 138 ($667k) Expenses 162 ($581k) Net assets 420 ($520k)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (162)Net assets (420)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $85k to $614k (+626%).

$124k
$179k
$285k
$85k
$614k
$504k
$434k
$520k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

24% of UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$124k
’17
$56k
’18
$106k
’19
−$201k
’20
$529k
’21
−$110k
’22
−$70k
’23
$86k
’24
4.9
months of
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.

Chief executive

Sammy Esses

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.

Funder
'19
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $248k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Childrens Education Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’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

UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 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

83% of UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
OH
NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’22
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

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In New York

Ucef Fund Inc93%Chasdei Yisroel Inc83%1199 Seiu Employer Child Care Corporation83%Yeshivah Beth Israel Tifereth Menachem Foundation83%United Community Fund83%Jewish Studies Enrichment Inc82%Sam & Esther Minskoff Cultural Center Park East Day School Inc82%Protect Education and Religious Liberty in Schools Inc82%

Nationally

Ucef Fund Inc93%Chicago Jewish Day School Endowment Foundation84%Chasdei Yisroel Inc83%1199 Seiu Employer Child Care Corporation83%Jewish Child and Family Services Endowment Foundation83%Yeshivah Beth Israel Tifereth Menachem Foundation83%Jewish Family & Children's Foundation Inc83%One City Schools Foundation Inc83%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 4%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Ucef Fund Inc · exempt
  • Ucef Insurance Agency LLC · partnership
  • Ucef Holdings Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: 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 UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being EMET VEMUNAH SAM & SAMANTHA SASSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,000 in grants to UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
EMET VEMUNAH SAM & SAMANTHA SASSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED CHILDRENS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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