Who funds Childrens Defense Fund
181 institutional funders have given since 2022, 128 of them directly, through tax year 2025.
Its two largest direct donors
- Lilly Endowment Inc$7.5M2022–2025
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation$3.4M2022–2024
A free account names its 5 largest direct donors, and the funders behind them.
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Latest return: tax year 2024, Form 990.
| Tax year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24.0M | $34.9M | $27.7M |
| 2023 | $20.2M | $33.5M | $36.4M |
| 2022 | $17.5M | $28.3M | $42.8M |
| 2021 | $12.6M | $5.1M | $58.4M |
| 2020 | $43.8M | $21.5M | $50.2M |
Contributions and grants received in 2024: $19.4M.
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Built from the organization’s public IRS Form 990 filings and the gifts other organizations report on theirs, processed by Aprize. Institutional donors only: individual donors are never shown. Data as of 1 November 2026.
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