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Ckko Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $241k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH & RESOURCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICE INC | $20,000 |
| WILD AT HEART INC | $15,000 |
| DESERT SOUNDS PERFORMING ARTS INC | $12,000 |
| CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY | $12,000 |
| ARIZONA RECREATION CENTER FOR THE HANDICAPPED | $12,000 |
| SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND | $10,000 |
| YOUNG JUDEA | $10,000 |
| FUND #16517-PROJECT 24 CO MERKAZ HATZEDAKA CORP | $10,000 |
| THE GIBBON CONSERVATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE SINAI | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE | $10,000 |
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, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- SWSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +72% · 46% of their budget
- SASOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +138%
- TFTHE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- KTKSR TORNADO RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2022 · $80k
- AAANSWER ALSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +30%
- ATALLIANCE THEATERone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 Horses Help Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Los Nios Primero Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 63 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 SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WILD AT HEART INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds DESERT SOUNDS PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND ↗
- Who funds Gibbon Conservation Center ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HORSES HELP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG JUDAEA GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOUNTIFUL AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC DBA AMERICAN MOBILITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE BALLET ↗
- Who funds A Cure in Our Lifetime Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEYLIFE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds AID ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWER ALS ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SINGLETONS ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Harp Foundation ↗
- Who funds Arizona Recreation Center for the Handicapped ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · American Express Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Molly Lawson Foundation · The Bryan and Amy Lewis Family Foundation Inc · Halpern-Oppenheimer Family Foundation · Rosenberg Family Foundation Inc · The Selig Foundation Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · Fiesta Events 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 Ckko 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.