The Children's Partnership
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 46-4106389. Reported 58 grants totalling $2,702,589 to 44 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:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Children's Partnership, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 24% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 6% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $35,000; the smallest was $6,245 and the largest $640,355. 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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Children and Families Foundation Inc | Alameda, CA | $640,355 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid Society of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Health Law Program Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western Center on Law and Poverty | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catalyst California | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| A Black Education Network (aben) | San Jose, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Black Californians United for Early Care and Education | Pleasant Hill, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| California Black Womens Health Project | Inglewood, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grace | Pasadena, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Diego Community Birth Center | San Diego, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ventures | Watsonville, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Advancement Project Education Fund | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Innercity Struggle | Los Angeles, CA | $49,112 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| California Child Care Resource & Referral Network | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Californians for Justice Education Fund Inc | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Families in Schools | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Service Employees International Union | Los Angeles, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Washington Grant & Contract Accounting | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Naca-Inspired Schools Network | Albuquerque, NM | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Girls Smile | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Women for Wellness | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California Youth Connection | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Freedom School | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Detroit Heals Detroit | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Education Trust Inc | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Everyblackgirl Inc | Columbia, SC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gente Organizada | Pomona, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hispanas Organized for Political Equality-California | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Justice for Girls Coalition of Washington State | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Many Languages One Voice | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Media Alliance Inc | Troy, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Parent Institute for Quality Education Inc | National City, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Two Feathers-Nafs | Mckinleyville, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Viet Rainbow of Orange County | Buena Park, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Health in Partnership | Oakland, CA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Rural Legal Assistance Inc | Modesto, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Health Councils Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latino Center for Prevention & Action in Health & Welfare | Santa Ana, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Para Los Ninos | Los Angeles, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Public Health Foundation Inc | City of Industry, CA | $6,877 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lake Research Partners | Washington, DC | $6,245 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
14 of 44 (32%) 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.
- Legal Aid Society of San Diego -Health Consumer Alliance
SG2024016, KEEP CA COVERED, INSTALLMENT 1 OF 1 - Latino Coalition for a Healthy California a Project of Tides
SG2024017, KEEP CA COVERED, INSTALLMENT 1 OF 1 - National Health Law Program
SG2024014, KEEP CA COVERED, INSTALLMENT 1 OF 1 - Western Center on Law & Poverty
SG2024015, KEEP CA COVERED, INSTALLMENT 1 OF 1 - A Black Education Network (aben)
SG2024001, WCEP STEERING COMMITTEE 2023-2024, INSTALLMENT 1 OF 1. - Black Californians United for Early Care and Education
SG2024002, WCEP STEERING COMMITTEE 2023-2024, INSTALLMENT 1 OF 1
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 44 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 year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 18 | $325,377 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 8 | $120,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | $820,712 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 22 | $1,436,500 | $37,500 |
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
90% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Children's Partnership'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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 700 S Flower St 1000, Los Angeles, CA, 90017.
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