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Fight for Children Inc

Washington, DC · EIN 52-1706059. Reported 56 grants totalling $5,215,603 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

1. What kind of organization it is. For Fight for Children Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P30J) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
2. How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 77% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
3. How much its list changes. 54% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,680 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,368 and the largest $3,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

18 of 28 (64%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

• Children's National Medical Center $3,000,000 · 2022
  SUPPORTS THE FIGHT FOR CHILDREN YOUTH SPORTS MEDICINE CENTER
• College Track $200,000 · 2021
  SUPPORTS THE EXPANSION OF THEIR CURRENT PROGRAMMATIC EFFORTS INTO WASHINGTON, DC AND TO SERVE A POPULATION OF FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES.
• Alexandria Boxing Club $127,500 · 2023
  UNRESTRICTED OPERATING SUPPORT (UOS) GRANT
• DC Grays Rbi $39,000 · 2022
  MISSION TO BRING BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL TO BOYS AND GIRLS IN WASHINGTON, DC, AND TO PROMOTE POSITIVE AND FORMATIVE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN IN SOME OF THE MOST SYSTEMATICALLY UNDER-RESOURCED AREAS OF THE CITY.
• Open Goal Project $38,250 · 2022
  MAKE U.S. YOUTH SOCCER MORE EQUITABLE AND MORE DIVERSE, AND TO EMPOWER THEIR STUDENT ATHLETES TO OVERCOME BARRIERS THEY FACE ON AND OFF THE FIELD THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES.
• Student Athletes Organized to Understand Leadership $35,500 · 2022
  SUPPORTS THEIR PROGRAMS TO EDUCATE AND EMPOWER LOW-INCOME STUDENT-STHLETES TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF POVERTY, USING ATHLETICS AS A CATALYST FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Giving by year

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

87% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Down to the city

Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

How to approach this grantmaker

1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Fight for Children Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1250 Connecticut Avenue Nw 700, Washington, DC, 20036.

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