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Calvin K Kazanjian Economics Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$258k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.8MSocial Science$433kEmployment$230kHuman Services$125kCommunity Improvement$120kArts & Culture$116kCrime & Legal$59kEnvironment$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $249k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION$30,000
GEORGIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATI$30,000
MISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECONOMICS ED$30,000
CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES$25,000
FLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMICS EDUCAT$25,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC$25,000
THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES$25,000
SOUTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC$24,000
FINANCIAL SCHOLARS$20,000
BOOKS ARE GEMS$15,000
National Assoc of Economic Educator$5,000
ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMICS EDUCAT$3,500
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 (FY21–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%3RD DECADE: $20k → 15%INCREASING HOPE: $10k → 12%SECURE FUTURES: $25k → 17%QUALITAS OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
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MO
VA
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DE
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TX
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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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 17 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
48

Total granted

$1.0M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

47%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • GC
    Georgia Council on Economic Education
    3× · 2020–2025 · $93k · revenue +28%
  • NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +16%
  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION
    2× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • VD
    VANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $847k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • TG
    The George Washington Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +26%
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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8
Minnesota State Council On Economic Education

Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…

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9
Wisconsin Council On Economic Education Inc

To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in wisconsin.

Social Science
10
Institute for Financial Literacy Inc

To promote effective financial education and counseling. the institute works with organizations across the country to incorporate financial education into their existing services and is dependent upon individual and corporate financial…

Human Services
11
Ie New York College

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Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Working in Support of Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

43 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. 43 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUND: $847,036 · OtherVANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUNDNATIONAL COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT: $164,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherVIRGINIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT: $94,000 · Other+41 more: $968,748 · Other+41 moreTrustees of Tufts College: $57,000 · EducationTrustees o…The George Washington University: $40,000 · EducationThe George…University of South Florida Foundation Inc: $25,000 · EducationUniversity…University of West Georgia Foundation Inc: $25,000 · EducationUniversity…WORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INC: $25,000 · EducationWORKING IN…CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $21,000 · EducationCONCORDIA …COLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION: $20,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE…FINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC: $20,000 · EducationFINANCIAL …Books Are Gems: $15,000 · EducationBooks Are …INSTITUTE OF STUDENT LOAN ADVISORS CORPORATION: $10,000 · EducationLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $9,900 · Education+3 more: $13,000 · EducationGeorgia Council on Economic Education: $93,000 · Social ScienceCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $60,000 · Social ScienceSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC: $15,000 · Social ScienceNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureAMELIA PARK CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureQUALITAS OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human Services3RD DECADE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesIncreasing HOPE: $10,000 · Human ServicesLEGALCORPS: $36,500 · Crime & LegalAfter Innocence: $22,000 · Crime & LegalARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $32,500 · Youth Development
Other$2,298,784Education$280,900Social Science$168,000Arts & Culture$116,000Human Services$80,000Crime & Legal$58,500Youth Development$32,500

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 budgetGeorgia Council on Economic Education: $93,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $57,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFITMONEY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetThe George Washington University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEGALCORPS: $36,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetAMELIA PARK CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $35,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $32,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCollege Unbound: $32,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetONABEN: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetQUALITAS OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetUniversity of West Georgia Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGeneration Patient Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetAfter Innocence: $22,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFTFUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budget3RD DECADE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRUNSWICK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetWest Enterprise Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIncreasing HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $9,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS NEED TO READ: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Wells Fargo FoundationFoundation for Financ…Charles Koch Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Td Charitable Foundat…The Bank of America C…Enterprise Holdings F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…The Pfizer Foundation…
Wells Fargo FoundationMN21.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wells Fargo Foundation · Foundation for Financial Planning Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Td Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Calvin K Kazanjian Economics Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Calvin K Kazanjian Economics Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Amelia Park Childrens Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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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 73 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home