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Charles & Esther Lee Kimerling Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of Charles & Esther Lee Kimerling Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST LAKE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTH | $100,000 |
| HEBREW BENEVOLENT CONGREGATION THE TEMPLE | $50,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE HUDSON INC | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WILLIAM BREMEN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE LTD | $20,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH JACOB AND IRVING LEVIN JEWISH CE | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITHFAMILY COM INC | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN DANCE MACHINE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDA | $7,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON I | $5,000 |
| MINERALS METALS & MATERIALS SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
| JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC | $5,000 |
| MIT ALUMNI FUND | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $267k · revenue +39%
FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC6× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +8%- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE HUDSON INC2× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF OF OFANIMone grant, 2019 · $30k
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CBCONGREGATION BETH JACOBone grant, 2022 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Rails to Trails Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 138 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Usher 1F Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds REBECCA'S TENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MINERALS METALS & MATERIALS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NERANENAH INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · The Selig Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Horowitz Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Charles & Esther Lee Kimerling Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
- High Desert Food & Farm Alliance — 45% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Collage Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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