Children's Funding Project

Name

Children's Funding Project

Legal name

Children's Funding Project

Website

https://childrensfundingproject.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Policy Advisory Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Child Care Services (62441), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Early Childhood Education & Childcare Nonprofits (BPAGADAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Youth Mental Health, Counseling & Wellbeing (Education-Linked) Nonprofits (BPAGADAK), Maternal, Child & Family Health Program Funding (HLAJALAG)

Keywords

• Strategic public financing
• Children's funding advisory
• Fiscal mapping services
• Public policy consulting
• Nonprofit technical assistance

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Foundation Grants: Children's Funding Project is a nonprofit funded primarily by philanthropic foundations. Quoted funders and program officers include the Heising-Simons Foundation (September Jarrett, Program Officer, Education) and The Wallace Foundation (Polly Singh, Senior Program Officer).
2. Philanthropic Funder Partnerships: Engages with multiple private foundations including C.E. and S. Foundation and Buell Foundation, which have supported strategic public financing initiatives for children and youth.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Children's Funding Project provides technical assistance, coaching, fiscal mapping, cost analysis and modeling, and ballot measure campaign support to help communities, states, and Native nations identify and secure sustainable public funding for children and youth. Through six service areas—Strategic Public Financing, Fiscal Mapping, Cost Analysis and Modeling, Sourcing Additional Funding, Voter-Approved Children's Funds, and the Native Children's Funding Project—the organization delivers direct consulting engagements and free self-serve publications, databases, and toolkits via its website.

Product overview

Children's Funding Project is a non-profit research and advocacy organization, not a traditional SaaS or technology product company. Its offering is a curated portfolio of advisory service areas and educational/policy resources organized into a single platform-style resource hub. The platform architecture consists of six core service areas — Strategic Public Financing, Fiscal Mapping, Cost Analysis and Modeling, Sourcing Additional Funding, Voter-Approved Children's Funds, and the Native Children's Funding Project sub-brand — which together constitute the "Our Work" offering for local, state, and Native nation leaders. Supporting these services are standalone research tools and publications including the Federal Funding Streams for Children and Youth Services Database, the Voter-Approved Children's Funds Across the Country Map, the Last Vote to First Dollar Toolkit, the A-Zs of Creating a Voter-Approved Children's Fund checklist, the State Strategies for Sustained Investment in Kids report, the Voters Will Tax Themselves for Kids PowerPoint deck, and curated collections such as Funding Our Kids 101 and Our CEO's Top Picks. These products and services are delivered through the organization's website (childrensfundingproject.org) as publications, databases, maps, webinars, videos, courses, and PowerPoint decks rather than as integrated software modules.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Strategic Public Financing

Named customers18 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• National Indian Child Care AssociationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerExecutive Director Jennifer Rackliff describes an active partnership where Children's Funding Project helps tribal communities estimate costs of care and identify replacement funds in light of reduced federal funds. Drives the Native Children's Funding Project workstream.
• Alliance for Early SuccesscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerExecutive Director Helene Stebbins cites Children's Funding Project's expansive research and tracking of state funding actions as 'proof that this is possible' for state allies moving from models to revenue generation.
• Afterschool AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSenior Vice President Jennifer Rinehart describes a natural alliance between Afterschool Alliance's national/state focus and Children's Funding Project's local focus to maximize resources for out-of-school supports.
• Funding the Next GenerationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-developed 'A Children's Fund Campaign Manual' referenced in The A-Zs of Creating a Voter-Approved Children's Fund checklist, in collaboration with 50+1 Strategies.
• 50+1 StrategiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Funding the Next Generation to develop 'A Children's Fund Campaign Manual,' which underpins The A-Zs of Creating a Voter-Approved Children's Fund checklist resource.
• Local Children's Cabinets NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferenced as a national network (localchildrenscabinets.org) that supported the development of Cincinnati's Children and Families Cabinet; aligned with the Children's Cabinet Toolkit resource published by Children's Funding Project.
• Start Early WashingtonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSheila Ater Capestany transitioned from King County's Best Starts for Kids leadership to become executive director of Start Early Washington; an aligned organization in early childhood systems work.
• Fund IRL CoalitioncoreGTM or Marketing PartnerNational coalition convened by Children's Funding Project working to direct potential settlement dollars from lawsuits against social media companies to after-school programs.

Scale indicators15 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• StriveTogether: National cradle-to-career network that works on local funder collaboration and outcomes-based funding for children. Comparable in its cradle-to-career framing and fiscal mapping orientation, though more funder-network than community-TA focused.
• Results for America: Advocacy organization promoting evidence-based public investment. Comparable in its focus on translating evidence into sustainable public funding decisions, with a broader government-effectiveness lens.

Broad incumbents

• Afterschool Alliance: National advocacy organization focused on out-of-school time funding. Partners with CFP on the Fund IRL coalition and on funding out-of-school time programs, sharing overlap in constituency and funding strategy.
• First Focus on Children: Bipartisan children's advocacy organization working on federal budget and policy. Comparable in its focus on dedicated federal funding for children, though more federal-policy oriented than CFP's local/state orientation.
• Alliance for Early Success: National advocacy and funding partner of CFP that works on early childhood policy at the state level. Overlaps with CFP's strategic public financing and dedicated state funding workstreams, but with a broader advocacy remit.

Direct peers

• The Children's Trust (Miami-Dade): A dedicated children's funding authority at the county level — directly comparable to the voter-approved children's funds CFP supports nationwide. Offers an operating-model reference point for what CFP's downstream customers look like.
• National Indian Child Care Association: Active strategic partner of CFP on the Native Children's Funding Project. Directly comparable in the tribal early childhood funding niche, though more association-oriented and less grantmaking than CFP.
• Funding the Next Generation: Direct peer in the voter-approved children's fund space. Co-developed the 'A Children's Fund Campaign Manual' with CFP, making it a near-1:1 comparator in the campaign and ballot-measure niche.

Others

• Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families: A funder-affinity network rather than a service provider. Comparable as part of the same philanthropic ecosystem CFP operates in, and a likely conduit for foundation relationships and policy signal.
• Council of Foundations: Membership association for philanthropic foundations. Comparable as part of the funder ecosystem CFP navigates, useful as an institutional comparator for understanding foundation-side context for CFP's funding model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCrpM3akTFmpckHDG0P5fBfw
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/childrens-funding-project
• Xx.com/FundOurKids

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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