The Children's Fund Inc
Houston, TX · EIN 74-1870298. Reported 71 grants totalling $5,893,642 to 36 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 7% 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. 65% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than 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 $68,410. Half of what it reported fell between $35,000 and $105,000; the smallest was $20,000 and the largest $247,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership for the Advancement & Immersion of Refugees | Houston, TX | $405,550 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Nativity Academy | Houston, TX | $402,125 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Entrusted Houston | Hockley, TX | $365,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| All Ears Listening and Language Center | The Woodlands, TX | $345,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Harbor Christian Academy | Houston, TX | $321,044 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Project One Day | Houston, TX | $300,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Clothed By Faith Inc | Katy, TX | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Foster Care Advocacy Center | Spring, TX | $299,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Champion Institute | Richmond, TX | $279,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fostering Family | Houston, TX | $235,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Harris School Inc | Houston, TX | $220,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Harrisons Heroes | Houston, TX | $200,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Iconoclast Artists | Houston, TX | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Letting Everyone Achieve Dreams | Houston, TX | $185,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sandal Gap Studio | Houston, TX | $180,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Prelude Music Foundation | Houston, TX | $156,940 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Blessings in a Backpack Inc | Louisville, KY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Second Servings of Houston | Houston, TX | $138,953 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Brazoria County Alliance for Children Inc | Angleton, TX | $128,410 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nehemiah Center Inc | Houston, TX | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Js House Inc | Kingwood, TX | $115,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Making It Better | Houston, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mission Squash of Houston | Houston, TX | $98,410 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Local Infant Formula for Emergencies Inc | Houston, TX | $96,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Wonders & Worries Inc | Austin, TX | $92,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bridgeyear | Houston, TX | $87,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chinquapin Preparatory School | Highlands, TX | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Faris Foundation | Sugar Land, TX | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oak Forest Foster Closet | Houston, TX | $37,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hype Freedom School Inc | Pearland, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| John T Fontaine JR Charity Inc | Chattanooga, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Onpurpose Enrichment Inc | Houston, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Open Dance Project | Houston, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Blessing Texas | Brenham, TX | $24,410 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Family to Family Adoption Services Inc | Richmond, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship | Richmond, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
22 of 36 (61%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- San Francisco Nativity Academy
THE SCHOOL PROVIDES A NON-TUITION BASED INDEPENDENT PRIVATE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SERVING EXCLUSIVELY LOW-INCOME STUDENTS AND FAMILIES. THE VISION IS TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF POVERTY FOR THESE STUDENTS THROUGH A QUALITY EDUCATION ADDRESSING THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS OF EACH STUDENT AND FAMILY. - Project One Day
PROJECT ONE DAY'S MISSION IS TO BRING THE LOVE AND SAFETY OF JESUS CHRIST TO INFANTS AND TODDLERS OF LOW-INCOME SINGLES IN HOUSTON. - Partnership for the Advancement and Immersion of Refugees
PAIR EMPOWERS REFUGEE YOUTH TO NAVIGATE AMERICAN SOCIETY, REACH THEIR ACADEMIC POTENTIAL, AND BECOME COMMUNITY LEADERS. - All Ears Listening and Language Center
ALL EARS LISTENING AND LANGUAGE CENTER FOSTERS LIFELONG LEARNING, INCLUSION AND INDEPENDENCE FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE LISTENING AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROGRAM. - Entrusted Houston
ENTRUSTED HOUSTON MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE FOSTER AND ADOPT COMMUNITIES TO PROMOTE RESTORATION FOR KIDS, FAMILIES, AND FRONT LINE WORKERS IN JESUS' NAME. - Harbor Christian Academy
HARBOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY EXISTS TO TRANSFORM STUDENTS FROM VARIED BACKGROUNDS ACROSS HOUSTON THROUGH A CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION TO THE GLORY OF GOD. IT PRIMARILY SERVES STUDENTS FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 32 of 36 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 12 | $885,633 | $62,980 |
| 2021 | 12 | $1,056,379 | $73,970 |
| 2022 | 14 | $1,297,130 | $89,065 |
| 2023 | 15 | $1,277,500 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 18 | $1,377,000 | $50,000 |
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
97% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. 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 $68,410 -- 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 Texas.
- 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 Fund Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). 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 18 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: 5773 Woodway Drive 189, Houston, TX, 77057.
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