King County Child Health Program Funding Awards

A database of funding awards from the Best Starts for Kids initiative in King County. It details financial contracts awarded to community partners for programs supporting child, youth, and family well-being. The data is published by data.kingcounty.gov and was last updated in June 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze distribution of Contract Amount across King County Council Dist to identify geographic funding disparities.
• Categorize funding recipients by Partner type (e.g., non-profits, schools, tribes) to understand which organizations receive support.
• Map projects to their stated Best Starts for Kids Strategy to evaluate alignment of funded activities with program goals.
• Examine the Focus field of funded projects to identify priority areas within child and family well-being.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the official King County government data portal, data.kingcounty.gov.
• Includes multiple structured data fields such as Contract Amount, Partner, and Focus for analysis.
• The dataset was updated in June 2024, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• The total number of funding awards (rows) is unknown, preventing assessment of dataset scale.
• Sample data is unavailable, so data quality and completeness of fields like Project Description/Name cannot be verified.
• Geographic coverage is limited exclusively to King County, Washington.

Provenance

Source

data.kingcounty.gov

Collection Method

Administrative records of funding contracts awarded by the Best Starts for Kids program.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-06-17.

Geography

King County, Washington, USA.