United States Fund for Unicef
New York, NY · EIN 13-1760110. Reported 48 grants totalling $129.5M to 23 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. For United States Fund for Unicef, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q420) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 91% 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.
- How much its list changes. 39% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 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 $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $16,228 and $425,358; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $52.9M. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicef USA Impact Fund for Children Inc | New York, NY | $117.6M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $7,080,588 | 9 | 5 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| United Nations Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $980,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Israaid US Inc | Beverly Hills, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $219,570 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Children of Persia Inc | Montgomry Vlg, MD | $216,165 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $210,627 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greater Houston Community Foundation | Houston, TX | $192,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Church World Service Inc | Elkhart, IN | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Avenir Health Inc | Glastonbury, CT | $79,085 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boston College Trustees | Chestnut Hill, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Special Olympics District of Columbia Inc | Washington, DC | $48,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Special Olympics Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | Denver, CO | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Forest Foundation | Missoula, MT | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Childrens Health Fund | New York, NY | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Latin American Youth Center Inc | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Civic Studios LLC | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Connect to Compete Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
10 of 23 (43%) 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.
- Unicef USA Impact Fund for Children
SEE PART IVTO PROVIDE FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO FAST-TRACK CRITICAL FUNDING TO UNICEF TO ELIMINATE CASH GAPS AND PROVIDE UNINTERRUPTED AND EXPEDITED ACCESS TO CRITICAL PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN, SAVING CHILDREN'S LIVES. FLEXIBLE CAPITAL TO OVERCOME TRADITIONAL FUNDING OBSTACLES, ALLOWING UNICEF TO COMPLETE IMMUNIZATION CAMPAIGNS AND DELIVER EDUCATIONAL, HEALTH AND NUTRITIONAL SUPPLIES TO VULNERABLE CHILDREN ON TIME, AND TO FAST-TRACK EMERGENCY RELIEF TO DESPERATE FAMILIES JUST DAYS AFTER A DISASTER. - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
SEE PART IVTO SUPPORT THE CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN'S, CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENTS' HEALTH BY COLLECTING, SYNTHESIZING, ANALYZING AND REPORTING ON THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA ON COVERAGE OF EFFECTIVE HEALTH AND NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS. - President & Fellows of Harvard College
SEE PART IVTO ESTABLISH A PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUND TO SUPPORT THE CHILD PROTECTION PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM AT HARVARD. THE PROGRAM AIMS TO STRENGTHEN THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHILD PROTECTION PROFESSIONALS, AND BUILD CAPACITY TO DEVELOP AND EXPAND INTEGRATED PROTECTION SYSTEMS, WHICH PROVIDE A HOLISTIC RESPONSE TO CHILDREN THREATENED WITH VIOLENCE, ABUSE, NEGLECT, EXPLOITATION AND DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY. - John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
FUNDS WILL BE USED TO FOR MONITORING REPRODUCTIVE MATERNAL NEWBORN CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION (RMNCHN) OUTCOMES IN GLOBAL FINANCING FACILITY COUNTRIES. - United Nations Foundation Inc
Funds will be used to support LMICs with HSS through the lens of non-communicable diseases. - Israaid (us) Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc
FUNDS WILL BE USED TO PROVIDE MENTAL HEALTH AND RESILIENCE SUPPORT SERVICES TO CHILDREN IN ISRAEL.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 20 of 23 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 | 14 | $29.9M | $46,155 |
| 2021 | 6 | $54.3M | $103,509 |
| 2022 | 14 | $11.7M | $27,500 |
| 2023 | 9 | $16.3M | $111,400 |
| 2024 | 5 | $17.3M | $980,000 |
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
91% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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 $50,000 -- 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 New York.
- 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 United States Fund for Unicef'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 5 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: 125 Maiden Lane 10TH Floor, New York, NY, 10038.
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