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Colonel Harland Sanders Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$400k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$2.0MEducation$600kFood & Nutrition$320kAnimals$250kHuman Services$200kYouth Development$200kPublic Benefit$179kEmployment$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$200,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUEPRINT 502 (FKA YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE)$200,000
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$200,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $400k → 16%KAPI'OLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $200k → 14%CHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES: $250k → 8%KENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY INC: $250k → 15%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $50k → 15%MAYFIELD ROTARY FOUNDATION: $400k → 19%BREAD FOR THE CITY: $100k → 14%KENTUCKY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $500k → 15%SALVATION ARMY LOUISVILLE AREA COMMAND: $100k → 15%MARTHA'S TABLE: $220k → 14%SALVATION ARMY LOUISVILLE AREA COMMAND: $100k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Kids Home Care Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…

Health
2
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
3
Kids in Need Foundation

We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…

Education
4
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
7
Mjhs Medical Associates Pc

The purpose for which the corporation is formed is to practice the profession of medicine for affiliates of metropolitan jewish health system, inc., which provide medical and health services.

Health
8
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
9
BronxCare Special Care Center Inc

The mission of bronxcare special care center (bcscc) is to deliver quality, effective and efficient health care services to meet the health service needs of the residents of the bronx and to enhance its reputation as one of the community's…

Health
10
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
11
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
12
Kidspeace Children's Hospital

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Table Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mayfield Rotary Foundation 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENTUCKY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $500,000 · OtherKENTUCKY CHILDRENS HOSPITALUCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $300,000 · OtherUCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $200,000 · OtherSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITALTHE SALVATION ARMY — $200,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYBLUEPRINT 502 (FKA YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE) — $200,000 · OtherBLUEPRINT 502 (FKA YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE)COL HARLAND SANDERS CHAR ORG INC — $125,000 · OtherCOL HARLAND SANDERS CHAR ORG INC+2 more — $104,130 · Other+2 moreBOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · HealthBOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCKOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC — $300,000 · HealthKOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INCHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $250,000 · HealthHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INCKENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY INC DBA EASTERSEALS BLUEGRASS — $250,000 · HealthKENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY INC DBA …Kapi'olani Health Foundation — $100,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health FoundationMAYFIELD ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · EducationMAYFIELD RO…MARTHA'S TABLE INC — $220,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S …BREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR…YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC — $100,000 · Human Services
Other$1,829,130Health$1,300,000Education$400,000Food & Nutrition$320,000Human Services$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetMAYFIELD ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC — $300,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY INC DBA EASTERSEALS BLUEGRASS — $250,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $220,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Colonel Harland Sanders 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 96%
  • Boston Children's Foundation Inc96% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Colonel Harland Sanders Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Colonel Harland Sanders Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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