· Private foundation
Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVALENT UNION | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL CITY RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $8,000 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR GENDER AND REFUGEE STUDIES - UC HASTINGS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $4,000 |
| AMERICARES | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $4,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $4,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $4,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND | $3,000 |
| URBAN ALCHEMY | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 14 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +1%- CFCenter For Gender And Refugee Studies- California Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +125%
- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- MGMESA GLOBALone grant, 2023 · $5k
- UUnboundone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -2%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +35%
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 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 32 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 37 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Center For Gender And Refugee Studies- California Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EYEJ ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ALCHEMY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds Hospital De La Familia Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Association for Women in Science Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GIRLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
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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: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.