How much does Ckko Foundation give?

Ckko Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $386,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Ckko Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (26%), Health (23%), Arts & Culture (14%).

Who are Ckko Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southwest Wildlife Foundation ($250k), Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center ($212k), The Felicia Penzell Weber Jewish Community High School Inc ($110k).

Does Ckko Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ckko Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ckko Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities, American Express Foundation.

Where is Ckko Foundation based?

Ckko Foundation is based in AZ.

Ckko Foundation

Ckko Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ckko Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$386k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$760kHealth$662kArts & Culture$411kFood & Nutrition$296kHuman Services$210kEducation$164kPhilanthropy$89kReligion$88kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $35k
$10k–50k18 grants · $241k
$50k–250k2 grants · $110k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ARIZONA RECREATION CENTER FOR THE HANDICAPPED	$12,000
CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY	$12,000
SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND	$10,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE	$10,000
STAND FOR ANIMALS VET CLINIC	$10,000
PHOENIX CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC	$10,000
A CURE IN OUR LIFETIME CO JENNIFER FINK	$10,000
YOUNG JUDEA	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 44 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+30%

Still filing today

59%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

SW
SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +72% · 46% of their budget
SA
SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +138%
TF
THE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +64%

Funded once

KT
KSR TORNADO RELIEF FUND
one grant, 2022 · $80k
AA
ANSWER ALSgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +30%
AT
ALLIANCE THEATER
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

Statewide Independent Living Council

Arizona Statewide Independent Living Council, AZSILC is one of 56 Statewide Independent Living Councils, SILCs which are federally mandated under the Rehabilitation Act. There is one SILC in each state and US territory. AZSILC members are…

Human Services

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

The Translational Genomics Research Institute

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Health

The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

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

Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education

Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

The N 1 Collaborative Inc

To make individualized medicines routinely and rapidly accessible to rare disease patients worldwide.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horses Help Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 63 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/38

Grantees still filing

24/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,718,000Health$335,000Arts & Culture$233,000Animals$210,000Human Services$185,000Education$150,000Youth Development$94,000

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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ24.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ckko Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ckko Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home