Children's Defense Fund
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Grants
12
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Total Awarded
$7,125,000
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Years
1983 - 2025
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Categories
Grants
2025 (1 year)
$500,000
Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) is a child advocacy organization with a historic legacy of advancing policies that enable children to thrive. Founded by Marian Wright Edelman in 1973, CDF has played critical roles in passing historic legislation, including the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Head Start and the Child Tax Credit. Today, CDF continues to be a leading voice for issues that touch children, and their families.
2001 (2 years)
$550,000
To support work on juvenile justice issues and access to children's mental health services (over two years).
1999 (1 year)
$50,000
To support youth and intergenerational leadership training programs.
1998 (2 years)
$700,000
To implement the State Child Health Insurance Program and for the Juvenile and Family Court Judges Leadership Council (over two years).
1997 (1 year)
$350,000
In support of general operations.
1996 (1 year)
$250,000
To increase public awareness of children's issues.
1994 (2 years)
$150,000
To support the Gun Violence Prevention Campaign (over two years).
1994 (3 years)
$1,000,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1992 (1 year)
$200,000
To support Leave No Child Behind, a national public education campaign on the needs of America's children.
1991 (1 year)
$1,000,000
In support of general operations, a public education project, and a leadership program.
1986 (1 year 1 month)
$1,625,000
To support an adolescent pregnancy-prevention program and local extensions of the program.
1983 (1 year)
$750,000
To establish a consciousness-raising campaign in the black community regarding the long-term public and personal costs of teenage pregnancy and of child-rearing in single-parent households (over three years).
