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Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Washington, DC · EIN 52-1969967. Reported 35 grants totalling $4,197,252 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

20organizations funded
$54,375median reported grant
$4,197,252granted, 2021-2024
46%of grantees funded again the next year
53%of dollars to its largest recipient

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 Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the IRS classifies it under mental health rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE F520) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 20 distinct organizations, with 53% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 46% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $54,375. Half of what it reported fell between $22,500 and $107,498; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $896,329. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
9 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
11 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
4 grants
$250,000 Or More
5 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Earthrights International IncWashington, DC$2,220,444442024
United States Fund for UnicefNew York, NY$763,853442024
Pan American Health Organizationwho-PahoWashington, DC$188,391222024
National Black Womens Health Project IncAtlanta, GA$150,000222022
Lulac Institute IncWashington, DC$130,000222022
National Lgbt Cancer Network IncProvidence, RI$121,250222024
Association of State and Territorial Health OfficialsArlington, VA$120,900442024
The Center for Black Health and EquityDurham, NC$82,500222024
National Council of Negro Women IncWashington, DC$75,000112024
NAACP Empowerment Programs IncBaltimore, MD$62,500112023
Save a Girl Save a WorldHarper Woods, MI$50,000112023
Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes Action Fund IncNew York, NY$43,047112022
Viaduct Consulting LLCChevy Chase, MD$42,367112023
Jack & Jill of America IncWashington, DC$37,500112024
National Congress of Parents and TeachersAlexandria, VA$37,500222024
Champlain Valley Family Center for Drug Treatment & Youth Services inPlattsburgh, NY$22,000112024
National Hispanic Council on AgingWashington, DC$20,000112023
Caffee Caffee and Associates Phf IncHattiesburg, MS$10,000112023
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence of MiddlesexE Brunswick, NJ$10,000112023
Out MaineRockland, ME$10,000112023

9 of 20 (45%) 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.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 14 of 20 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Mental Health
3 orgs
Civil Rights
2 orgs
International Affairs
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Health Care
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20215$732,793$75,000
20227$1,121,445$75,000
202313$1,301,819$28,125
202410$1,041,195$64,687

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

64% 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.

District of Columbia
$2.7M
New York
$829K
Virginia
$158K
Georgia
$150K
Rhode Island
$121K
Maryland
$105K
North Carolina
$82K
Michigan
$50K

Down to the city

Washington, DC
$2.7M
New York, NY
$807K
Atlanta, GA
$150K
Providence, RI
$121K
Arlington, VA
$121K
Durham, NC
$82K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipientsAARP5 shared recipientsThe Ford Foundation4 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipients

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 $54,375 -- 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 9 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 1400 I Street Nw 1200, Washington, DC, 20005.

EIN 52-1969967 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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