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Colonel Harland Sanders Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Table Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 18 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 96%
  • Boston Children's Foundation Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% 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, 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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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