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Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inc at a glance

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Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

International$75kArts & Culture$39kReligion$28kHealth$25kCivil Rights$15kHuman Services$13kCrime & Legal$11kEmployment$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$3,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVALENT UNION$20,000
CAPITAL CITY RESCUE MISSION$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$8,000
OXFAM AMERICA$5,000
CENTER FOR GENDER AND REFUGEE STUDIES - UC HASTINGS FOUNDATION$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$5,000
MERCY SHIPS INTERNATIONAL$5,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$4,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$4,000
FEEDING AMERICA$4,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES$4,000
AMERICARES$4,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$3,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY$3,000
MERCY CHEFS$3,000
02The need
03

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN: $2k → 12%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%SOLES4SOULS: $1k → 14%MERCY CHEFS: $3k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$192k · 17 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$192k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+12%

Still filing today

76%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +1%
  • OXFAM-AMERICA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +5%
  • CF
    Center For Gender And Refugee Studies- California Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • U
    Unbound
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -2%
  • MG
    MESA GLOBAL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +35%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
4
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
5
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
8
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
9
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
12
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camfed Usa Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Eyej. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
15/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVALENT UNION: $30,000 · OtherARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVALENT UNIONCAPITAL CITY GOSPEL MISSION: $26,000 · OtherCAPITAL CITY GOSPEL MISSIONAssociation for Women in Science Inc: $6,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,500 · OtherMercy Ships International: $5,000 · OtherMESA GLOBAL: $5,000 · OtherURBAN ALCHEMY: $8,500 · OtherURBAN ALCHEMYFeeding America: $4,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $4,000 · Other+8 more: $19,000 · Other+8 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES U…OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $15,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $9,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Commi…CAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $7,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATIONHospital De La Familia Foundation: $7,000 · InternationalHospital De La Familia Fou…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $8,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…Ronald McDonald House Global: $7,000 · HealthRonald McDon…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S …Center For Gender And Refugee Studies- California Inc: $15,000 · Civil RightsUnbound: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSOLES4SOULS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesEYEJ: $11,000 · EducationPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $1,500 · EducationFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $9,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$113,000International$60,000Health$29,000Civil Rights$15,000Human Services$15,000Education$12,500Arts & Culture$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter For Gender And Refugee Studies- California Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEYEJ: $11,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ALCHEMY: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospital De La Familia Foundation: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAssociation for Women in Science Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnbound: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONEGOAL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GIRLS COLLABORATIVE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLES4SOULS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Silicon Valley Commun…Verizon FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 37 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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