Our Children Our Future
Pasadena, CA · EIN 45-4030961. Reported 52 grants totalling $2,396,000 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Our Children Our Future, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in education (NTEE B01).
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 17% 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. 33% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $325,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic Victory Fund | Raleigh, NC | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| America Votes | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arizonans for Abortion Access | Phoenix, AZ | $190,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| A Better Wisconsin Together Inc | Madison, WI | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Black Voters Matter Fund | Carol Stream, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Care in Action Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Democracy Alliance | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Moveon Org Civic Action | Beaverton, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Progressnow | Richmond, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pusd Families Supporting Public Schools -- Yes on Measures R and Ee | Pasadena, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| In Union USA Action Fund | Washington, DC | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom | Washington, DC | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fair Fight Action Inc | Atlanta, GA | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Aapi Victory Power Fund | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Community Change Action | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Montana Outdoors Values Action Fund | Helena, MT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sixteen Thirty Fund | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Third Way | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reproductive Freedom for All | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rural Urban Bridges Initiative | Abington, VA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Working America | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 603 Forward | Concord, NH | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Future Now Action | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Living United for Change in Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ohio Progressive Collaborative | Columbus, OH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Center for Empowered Politics | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| We the People Action Fund | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western Organization of Resource Councils | Billings, MT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colorofchange Org | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Senate Majority Pac | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Movement Strategy Center Action Fund | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Progress Michigan | Lansing, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee Segregated Account | Madison, WI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Democratic Party of Wisconsin Segregated Account | Madison, WI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wisconsin State Senate Democratic Committee Segregated Account | Madison, WI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Save Pasadena's Library - Yes on Measure Pl | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yes on Pcc | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
10 of 40 (25%) 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.
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.
- Strategic Victory Fund
Support voter registration, education and mobilization - Progress Now
Support voter registration and voter education efforts in Michigan - A Better Wisconsin Together
Support for voter registration and mobilization for voter turnout - In Union
Voter education and mobilization directed toward households with a union member - Working America
Voter registration and voter education and mobilization efforts - Third Way
Voter education and voter mobilization
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | $215,000 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $455,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 9 | $205,000 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 24 | $1,521,000 | $25,000 |
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
30% 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.
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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $25,000 -- 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 District of Columbia.
- 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 Our Children Our Future's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 450 S San Rafael Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91105.
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