· Private foundation
Choose Kindness Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OROT HEALING | $7,657 |
| KINDNESS INITIATIVE | $5,942 |
| POINT LOMA NAZARETH UNIVIERSITY | $5,089 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 80% of grant dollars ($105k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($26k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 20% of all-years giving ($26k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Choose Kindness Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KIKINDNESS INITIATIVE3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +11%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +110%- JFJewish Family Services Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $12k
- NMNOVA MASSACRE SURVIVOR THERAPYone grant, 2023 · $11k
- PLPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +18%
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.
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.
Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…
The international fellowship of christian and jews is the leading non-profit building bridges between christians and jews, blessing israel and the jewish people around the world with, humanitarian care and life-saving aid.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 KINDNESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Orot Healing ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Choose Kindness Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Choose Kindness Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
Play a game based on Choose Kindness’ filings →