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Twin Towers Orphan Fund, founded on Sept. 12, 2001, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, public benefit organization, Fed. Tax ID# 57-1197371.

All donations are fully
tax-deductible.
Rebuilding futures, one child at a time.
About TTOF ~ Overview

The Twin Towers Orphan Fund was founded on September 12, 2001, to assist the children who were orphaned (who lost one or both parents) by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. TTOF is a long-term higher educational and health care support trust fund with a life span of more than 25 years.


The mission of the Twin Towers Orphan Fund is to help mitigate the damage caused by the terrorist acts of September 11 by ensuring the children of the victims have as normal a life as possible. To do so, the TTOF provides long-term higher educational assistance and helps meet mental and physical health care needs for children who lost a parent in the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, or onboard the four downed airliners.

During its first seven months, more than $4 million dollars was raised to support the children of 9/11. During this same seven months, all expenses were borne from the pockets of the dedicated co-founders and by monies donated specifically for expenses. Beginning the 2nd quarter of 2002, TTOF implemented a 90 percent model where 10 percent of donations are used for ongoing program expansion, administrative overhead and awareness efforts. During the following two years, an additional $3 million was donated, bringing the total to $7 million dollars.

During this same period of time, nearly 700 higher educational savings accounts had been established in the names of the children, an additional 51 children had received direct assistance for higher education expenses and 68 had received assistance for physical and mental healthcare expenses; this totaled nearly $3.5 million.

More than 1,000 children in 18 states and territories, including 30 babies born after 9/11/01, have registered with the TTOF. An average of 40 children - per year - will begin their college education over the next 18 years. If 2003 is an accurate indication of future TTOF registrations though, this number will increase each year by 15 percent.

Early on, the fund's goal was to raise $50,000 per registered child. Currently, there is nearly $7,000 available per child to cover both higher educational expenses and health care expenses. Over the next 20 years, an additional $45 million is required if we are to ensure quality health care and higher education for the children of 9/11.
If you know of a child who lost a parent on September 11, 2001, please register with Twin Towers Orphan Fund. This will help TTOF identify and qualify those children who are in most need of our help -- now and in the future.

TTOF provides higher educational assistance, as well as physical and mental health care assistance to the children who lost parents on September 11, 2001.

Created by more than 35 PR professionals around the nation acting collectively in response to the tragedies in New York, the Pentagon and among the four downed airliners, the new fund was creaed for the sole purpose of providing assistance to the children who lost parents on September 11, 2001.

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Education Savings Accounts for Children of 9/11 Victims - TTOF moved $1.6 million from its trust fund to open up to 800 individual "IRC Sec. 529" long-term, tax-deferred education savings accounts in the names of the children in the TTOF child registry.

A national grassroots effort, the Twin Towers Orphan Fund began as a 100 percent volunteer-supported activity. It was this volunteer effort that ensured 100 percent of the funds donated for over seven months were used exclusively for the benefit of children who lost one or both parents during the tragedy of September 11, 2001.