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Capturing Kid's Hearts Foundation

Our mission is to bring Capturing Kids Hearts to underfunded and under-served school systems with the desire to see transformation and produce high-achieving centers of learning

$353k
Granted FY2021
16
Grants FY2021
9
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2021 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $337,925, the rows itemized in this filing. The $353,170 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,245 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $331k
$21,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$492k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$42,000
Martin Public Schools$38,475
Ashe County Schools$37,000
Montrose County SD RE-1J$22,500
Glendale Unified School District$21,500
Individual grant recipient$21,000
GOAL Academy High School$21,000
Responsive Education Solutions$21,000
Grand Prairie ISD$20,250
Glassford Hill Middle School$19,500
Allegan Area Educational Service Agency$16,500
Vine Middle Magnet School$14,700
Individual grant recipient$14,000
Individual grant recipient$11,250
Red Oak High School$10,000
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Glassford Hill Middle School: $20k → 14%Glendale Unified School District: $22k → 14%Responsive Education Solutions: $21k → 8%Red Oak High School: $10k → 9%Grand Prairie ISD: $20k → 14%Oriole Beach Elementary: $21k → 9%Martin Public Schools: $38k → 10%Vine Middle Magnet School: $15k → 12%Ashe County Schools: $37k → 14%North High School: $7k → 12%GOAL Academy High School: $21k → 15%Wolf's Crossing Elementary: $14k → 7%Allegan Area Educational Service Agency: $17k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
CA
CO
AZ
TN
NC
TX
FL
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 field
03the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
2/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $42,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMartin Public Schools: $38,475 · OtherMartin Public SchoolsAshe County Schools: $37,000 · OtherAshe County SchoolsMontrose County SD RE-1J: $22,500 · OtherMontrose County SD RE-1JGLENDALE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $21,500 · OtherGLENDALE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGrand Prairie ISD: $20,250 · OtherGrand Prairie ISDGlassford Hill Middle School: $19,500 · OtherGlassford Hill Middle SchoolAllegan Area Educational Service Agency: $16,500 · OtherAllegan Area Educational Service AgencyVine Middle Magnet School: $14,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,250 · OtherRed Oak High School: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $7,250 · OtherRESPONSIVEED TEXAS: $21,000 · EducationRESPONSIVEED T…GOAL Academy: $21,000 · EducationGOAL Academy
Other$295,925Education$42,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESPONSIVEED TEXAS: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOAL Academy: $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds RESPONSIVEED TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds GOAL Academy ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Capturing Kid's Hearts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Capturing Kid's Hearts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    How do I get to Capturing Kid's Hearts Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Capturing Kid's Hearts 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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $107k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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