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Bk Kee Foundation at a glance

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Bk Kee Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$753k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$430k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$2.0MEducation$686kPhilanthropy$565kFood & Nutrition$205kHealth$150kReligion$81kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $680,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $752,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $72,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $430k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL$430,000
PARAMI UNIVERSITY$200,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PROSPECT BURMA$40,000
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$10,000
ALUM ROCK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $555k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $430k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $470k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $323k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $200k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 4 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +226% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$2.7M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+226%
+54%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +226%
  • PU
    Parami University Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $665k · revenue +38% · 33% of their budget
  • CL
    CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -47%
  • 8N
    826 National Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
  • UN
    UNDERGROUND NETWORK INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +54%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Institute of Asian Scholars

naisA Global is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to helping talented young Asian professionals unlock their potential and become great leaders. It is the only non-profit of its kind to provide a global platform to…

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2
International Buddhist Education Foundation
Education
3
Association for Asian Studies Inc

A non-profit dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publication, research support and career development.

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4
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
5
Philanthropy International
Philanthropy
6
Parami Liberal Arts & Sciences Fund

Support of educational programs to develop critical thinking and analytical abilities for students from Myanmar and the surrounding area.

Education
7
Young Professionals in Foreignpolicy

We build communities of impact to solve global challenges.

International
8
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
9
Program of Academic Exchange

PAX Laurasian Exchange envisions a global community of people who are open minded and appreciate cultural differences, because we believe such a community is a fertile field for justice, peace, and prosperity. We aspire to be the quality…

International
10
Partners Asia

At Partners Asia, we build relationships with innovative organizers in these communities and with international donors, bridging the gap between local leaders and global resources.

Arts & Culture
11
Via International

We promote sustainable development by engaging and supporting leaders in emerging communities.

Arts & Culture
12
United Planet Corporation

United Planet is an international nonprofit organization with a mission to create a global community, one relationship at a time. We empower individuals to make a meaningful impact through immersive overseas volunteer programs, global…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners International; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Prospect Burma. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $1,977,656 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONALParami University Inc: $665,000 · EducationParami University IncUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN …+1 more: $10,000 · EducationGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $272,474 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR …CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherBURMESE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $1,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PROSPECT BURMA: $40,000 · InternationalVolunteers in Asia: $10,000 · InternationalUNDERGROUND NETWORK INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Religion
Human Services$1,977,656Education$825,000Philanthropy$272,474Other$81,000International$50,000Religion$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $1,977,656 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetParami University Inc: $665,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $272,474 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PROSPECT BURMA: $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budget826 National Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNDERGROUND NETWORK INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVolunteers in Asia: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH11.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bk Kee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bk Kee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bk Kee Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bk Kee Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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