Prevent Child Abuse America
Chicago, IL · EIN 23-7235671. Reported 40 grants totalling $2,088,150 to 23 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, 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. 23 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 34% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $40,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $65,000; the smallest was $12,500 and the largest $140,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc | Louisville, KY | $234,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Our Sisters Our Brothers | Phoenix, AZ | $205,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc | Washington, DC | $175,743 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Family Life in Sunset Park Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $164,600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Southwest Organizing Project | Albuquerque, NM | $140,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kansas Childrens Service League | Wichita, KS | $124,307 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nambe Pueblo | Santa Fe, NM | $99,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Families Forward | Richmond, VA | $95,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Familywise Services | Minneapolis, MN | $85,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Illuminate Colorado Inc | Denver, CO | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kentucky Council on Child Abuse Inc | Lexington, KY | $85,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Collaborative Solutions for Communities | Washington, DC | $75,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Evolution Foundation | Edmond, OK | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nebraska Children and Families Foundation | Lincoln, NE | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Villages of Indiana Inc | Bloomington, IN | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Idaho Children's Trust Fundprevent Child Abuse Idaho | Boise, ID | $57,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Prevent Child Abuse Arizona | Prescott Vly, AZ | $57,500 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alaska Childrens Trust | Anchorage, AK | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment | Minneapolis, MN | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Trust Fund of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | $25,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Hampshire Childrens Trust Inc | Concord, NH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prevent Child Abuse Oregon | Portland, OR | $25,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
8 of 23 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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.
- Southwest Organizing Project
WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO HIRE AT LEAST 20 YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE SUMMER TO CONTINUE THE YOUTH JUSTICE SUMMER INTERNSHIP, WHICH FOCUSES ON LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, BUILDING SKILLS WITH THE INTERNS AND LEADING THEM THROUGH WORKSHOPS TO EDUCATE THEM ON THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND COMMUNITY POWER BUILDING. - Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc
CO-DESIGNING THE TRUTH TELLING CIRCLE (TTC), HOLDING BI-WEEKLY MEETINGS BETWEEN THE KYA TEAM, INCLUDING FOSTER CARE ALUMNI AND THE COUNSEL FOR TRUTH; PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE (CTPHI) FOUNDERS; ACTIVELY PREPARING FOSTER CARE ALUMNI TO LEAD ACTIVITIES AND COORDINATE 4 MEETINGS WITH BROADER COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS. - Our Sister Our Brother
IMPLEMENT THE BRIDGE TO WISDOM PROGRAM WHICH WILL CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS TO CONNECT WITH MENTORS AND BUILD LASTING RELATIONSHIPS TO HELP DEVELOP THEIR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP. - Kansas Children's Service League
KCSL WILL HOST 40 COMMUNITY CAFES ACROSS THE STATE, REACHING 250 INDIVIDUALS WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE INCLUDING BLACK, LATINO AND INDIGENOUS YOUTH AND FAMILIES. THE COMMUNITY CAFE IS BASED ON THE WORLD CAFE MODEL WHICH BRINGS PARTICIPANTS TOGETHER AROUND A COMMON SUBJECT TO EXPLORE QUESTIONS AND SEEK ANSWERS. - Nambe Pueblo
IN FIRST 6 MONTHS, WILL CO-DESIGN TRUTH-TELLING CIRCLES (TTCS) THAT ARE HEALING, RESTORATIVE AND ACTION-ORIENTED. THAT INCLUDES CONDUCTING COMMUNITY VISIONING SESSIONS FOCUSED ON EQUITY AND WELLBEING, COLLABORATING WITH WELLNESS CENTER TO CONVENE, DIALOGUE AND PLAN TRUTH AND RECONCILIAITON EFFORTS. - Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc
THE CURB WILL BUILD UPON ITS FIRST YEAR'S SUCCESSES BY CONTINUING ITS ADVOCACY, EVALUATION AND EDUCATION EFFORTS. THEY PLAN TO EXPAND THEIR ADVOCACY EFFORTS BY WORKING WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO DEVELOP POLICY AND PROTOCOL RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE THE YOUTH SYSTEM.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 22 | $1,574,950 | $60,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | $273,200 | $12,500 |
| 2024 | 8 | $240,000 | $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
15% of its giving went to organizations in Kentucky. 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 $40,000 -- 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 Kentucky.
- 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 Prevent Child Abuse America'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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 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: 33 North Dearborn St Suite 2300, Chicago, IL, 60602.
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