Children'S Funding Project
ActivePublic CharityYouth Development
About Children'S Funding Project
Through strategic public financing we help communities, states, and Native nations ensure that all children thrive.
Focus Areas
Children and youth servicesPublic finance for childrenEarly childhood and out-of-school timePolicy and budget analysisNative/Tribal funding systems
Funding Style
unrestricted/general operating supportcore operating supportflexible fundingorganizational sustainability
About Children'S Funding Project
Children's Funding Project centers its grantmaking on public financing for children, with a clear emphasis on helping communities build durable funding systems rather than one-time program awards. Its active work includes Fiscal Mapping, Strategic Public Financing, Voter-Approved Children’s Funds, and the Native Children’s Funding Project, showing a pattern of technical assistance, planning support, and policy analysis around how children’s services are financed. Recent grants also reflect this operating style: the largest awards in the sample are $22,000 general-support grants to United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, Learn to Earn Dayton, Poughkeepsie Childrens Cabinet Inc, and United Way of Muscatine Iowa. Those recipients point to a model that supports local coalitions and children’s cabinets across different state and local contexts. Another recent grant to Children Now in Oakland, California adds a state-level advocacy dimension. The foundation’s stated philosophy includes unrestricted and core operating support, flexible funding, and organizational sustainability, which fits a capacity-building approach to public finance for children and youth.
What Children'S Funding Project Funds
In fiscal analysis, the foundation uses its Fiscal Mapping program to document and analyze sources of funding for children and youth programs at the state, city, county, or Native nation level. Its Voter-Approved Children’s Funds work supports communities pursuing dedicated public funding through ballot measures, with planning, case studies, and campaign support for establishing local or state children’s funds. The Native Children’s Funding Project adds a Tribal and Native-led lane, partnering with Tribal governments, Native-led organizations, and public partners to build sustainable funding systems for Native children and youth. Strategic Public Financing focuses on assessing current spending, assigning costs to goals for children and youth, and identifying ways to cover those costs.
How Children'S Funding Project Gives
The visible grant amounts cluster tightly: four grants at $22,000 and one at $20,000. All five recent grants are from 2025, and all are listed as general support. The foundation is a public charity and a regular funder, not a DAF or PRI vehicle, and it does not fund individuals. The recent sample shows no repeat grantees across years in the provided data, so the pattern here reads as small, operating-style support rather than a large multi-year grant portfolio. Unsolicited applications are not accepted for the active programs listed.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$0
Total Assets
$7.8M
Total Revenue
$6.1M
Total Expenses
$4.5M
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