Oregon · Public charity
Choosing Kindness Foundation
To spread kindness and to increase the well-being and happiness of individuals, organizations, and communities by providing kindness grants and supporting this work in schools, workplaces, social services, and public safety. To support social justice, poverty alleviation, charitable assistance, environmental sustainablity, and projects…
- $383k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $261k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250,034
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,034
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $90k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Choosing Kindness Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $261k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $487k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $346k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $744k | 93% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $213k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kindful Restoration | $934,342 | 3 | 100% |
| I Thrive Incorporated | $495,719 | 3 | n/a |
| Breakthrough Miami Inc | $137,680 | 3 | 2% |
| Stepn2ourlane Inc | $45,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Miami Non Stop Dance | $29,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Richmond County Board of Education | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Getting Out by Going In | $15,344 | 1 | 1% |
| Eugene School District 4J | $12,476 | 1 | n/a |
| Projectcamp | $9,775 | 1 | 1% |
| Risk Club | $7,575 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kindful Restoration | $934,342 | 3 | 100% |
| I Thrive Incorporated | $495,719 | 3 | n/a |
| Breakthrough Miami Inc | $137,680 | 3 | 2% |
| Stepn2ourlane Inc | $45,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Miami Non Stop Dance | $29,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Richmond County Board of Education | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Getting Out by Going In | $15,344 | 1 | 1% |
| Eugene School District 4J | $12,476 | 1 | n/a |
| Projectcamp | $9,775 | 1 | 1% |
| Risk Club | $7,575 | 1 | n/a |
| Pershing Elementary School PTO | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pocomoke Elementary School | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($321k), not named here.
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.
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How this is measured
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About Choosing Kindness Foundation
- How much does Choosing Kindness Foundation give?
- Choosing Kindness Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $261,034, out of $383,289 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Choosing Kindness Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (41%), Health (28%), Education (18%).
- Who are Choosing Kindness Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Kindful Restoration ($934k), I Thrive Incorporated ($496k), Breakthrough Miami Inc ($138k).
- Does Choosing Kindness Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Choosing Kindness Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Choosing Kindness Foundation based?
- Choosing Kindness Foundation is based in OR.
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