First Children's Finance Group
Minneapolis, MN · EIN 99-3692335. Reported 69 grants totalling $1,501,961 to 66 organizations across tax years 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 First Children's Finance Group, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P40) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 66 distinct organizations, with 9% 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 big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,625 and $33,750; the smallest was $5,526 and the largest $96,000. 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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Arts Inc | Burlington, VT | $129,750 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Otter Creek Child Center Inc | Middlebury, VT | $54,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mater Christi School | Burlington, VT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Planetary Art Institute Inc | Waitsfield, VT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Curious Kids Childcare LLC | Bennington, VT | $48,046 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ej's Kids Klub Inc | Essex, VT | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Growing Tree LLC | Salisbury, VT | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vip Roots Child Development Center | Colchester, VT | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pb and J Inc | Waterbury, VT | $40,298 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whole Child Learning Co | Northfield, VT | $39,421 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Turtle Island Childrens Center Inc | Montpelier, VT | $36,056 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Immersion Montessori School LLC | White River Junction, VT | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Myers Prouty Childrens Campuses Inc | Shaftsbury, VT | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Overlake Day School Inc | S Burlington, VT | $35,271 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Vermont Health and Recreation Center Foundation Inc | Springfield, VT | $34,210 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and Little Lambs | Rutland, VT | $33,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kid Savvy Family Childcare | Hyde Park, VT | $33,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bambino University | Reading, VT | $32,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Starksboro Cooperative Preschool Inc | Starksboro, VT | $31,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Milkweed Mountain | Hinesburg, VT | $30,591 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Learning Tree Child Care Center | Enosburg Falls, VT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Berkshire Family Young Mens Christian Association Inc | Pittsfield, MA | $28,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Suzy's Little Peanuts Day School LLC | Springfield, VT | $28,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crockett Academy for Early Liberal Arts | Williston, VT | $25,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spark Academy (stem Play Artreasoning Kids) | Swanton, VT | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia's Next Generation Infant Center | Georgia, VT | $21,648 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neck of the Woods Inc | Waitsfield, VT | $20,402 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community for Woodstock | Woodstock, VT | $18,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Roots Learning LLC | Morrisville, VT | $18,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mary Johnson Childrens Center | Weybridge, VT | $17,058 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Windsor Early Childhood Education Center | Windsor, VT | $16,934 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Learners LLC | Colchester, VT | $16,875 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Franklin Homestead Inc | Franklin, VT | $16,785 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Apple Tree Learning Centers Inc | Stowe, VT | $15,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rutland County Parent-Child Center Inc | Rutland, VT | $15,146 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Horizon Early Learning Program LLC | Brattleboro, VT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood Schoolhouse of Brattleboro Inc | Brattleboro, VT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Round Hill Kids | Hyde Park, VT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Hub Inc | Rochester, VT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alayna West | Sheldon, VT | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Country Kids Daycare | Newport, VT | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cubs Child Care Center | Stowe, VT | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brianas Childcare and Preschool | Saint Albans, VT | $11,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kiki's Learning Together Preschool Llp | Albany, VT | $11,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Red Wagon Childcare | Randolph, VT | $11,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mountain View Daycare | Coventry, VT | $11,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Abc Nature Academy | St Johnsbury, VT | $11,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Balancing Act Enrichment Center | Essex, VT | $10,090 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Inc | Bennington, VT | $9,475 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Killington Pico Ski Resort Partners LLC | Killington, VT | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Savannah Guyette Family Child Care | Derby, VT | $8,625 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Puffer Child Care Center | Morrisville, VT | $8,498 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hilltop Montessori School Inc | Brattleboro, VT | $8,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Skies the Limit Childcare LLC | North Ferrisburgh, VT | $8,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Craftsbury Saplings | Craftsbury, VT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arlington Area Childcare Inc | Arlington, VT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Explorers Child Care Center | Waterford, VT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pitter Patter Childcare CENTER1 | Colchester, VT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woodstock Community Playschool Inc | Woodstock, VT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Perkinsville Preschool and Childcare LLC | Perkinsville, VT | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Linda Palmer Family Child Care Home | Barton, VT | $7,125 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Morristown After School Program | Morrisville, VT | $6,480 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Common Roots Inc | S Burlington, VT | $6,276 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Melissa Fournier Family Child Care | Waterford, VT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stratton Mtn Child Care Center | Stratton Mountain, VT | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Congregational Church of Burlington | Burlington, VT | $5,526 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
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.
- Mater Christi School
VT CHILDCARE FEASABILITY PROJECT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 22 of 66 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.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in Vermont. 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
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.
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 $15,000 -- 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 Vermont.
- 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 First Children's Finance Group's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. 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.
Address of record on the latest return: 212 Third Avenue North 310, Minneapolis, MN, 55401.
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