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David E and Morgan S Kaufman Foundation

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.

$4k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$900
Largest
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202023.

Housing & Shelter$4kAnimals$2kHuman Services$855Recreation & Sports$850Arts & Culture$843Philanthropy$750Health$675Food & Nutrition$400Other$0
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$293
Median grant
3
States reached
$27k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Habitat for Humanity$900
St Matthews Homeless Welfare$509
Valley Rescue Mission$500
Rotary Club of Bonita Springs$350
Naples Rotary Club$300
Callaway Gardens$293
Goodwill Industries$250
The Naples Players$200
Internattional Hearing Dog Inc$200
Salvation Army$100
Spay&Neuter Initiative Program$100
Vinnies Wounded Vet Run$50
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Internattional Hearing Dog Inc: $200 → 10%Lighthouse of Collier Cty: $200 → 10%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 edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7k · 9 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

$7k
$5k

Still filing today

0%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SM
    St Matthews Homeless Welfare
    3× · 2020–2023 · $2k
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity
    2× · 2020–2023 · $975
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $900

Funded once

  • SM
    Saint Matthews Homeless Welfare
    one grant, 2022 · $650
  • GA
    GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $600 · revenue +44%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $550

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Naples Retreat Inc
Human Services
2
Guardian Angels of Naples Foundation
3
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
4
Cape Coral Wildlife Trust Inc

Land for preservation of indigenous wildlife. Research and education of wildlife. Land is bought and held.

Animals
5
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
6
Lighthouse of Southwest Florida Inc

A non profit rehabilitation center committed to ensuring blind and visually impaired persons have the tools, support and opportunities necessary to successfully achieve their desired level of independence.

7
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
8
Naples Area Board of Realtors Association of Real Estate Professionals

Naples area board of realtors and association of real estate professionals, inc. (nabor) provide education, ethics enforcement and arbitration services, contracts and forms, an intranet with real estate business content, social functions,…

9
South Florida Animal Rescue Network Inc

Rescue rehab and rehome dogs and horses in need. We rescue them from auction shelters the streets etc.

Animals
10
Nami Palm Beach County Inc

Nami palm beach county provides advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.

Health
11
Naples Pride Inc

To unite and empower the LGBTQ+ community of SWFL, to support, educate and foster social change and equality for all.

Civil Rights
12
Manatee Rescue & Rehabilitation Partnership Inc

To inspire and advance manatee conservation by partnering cooperatively in manatee rescue, rehabilitation, release, and monitoring efforts; improve understanding of manatee biology and health through scientific research; and promote…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Naples Players Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bikes for Tykes 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

10 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. 10 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St Matthews Homeless Welfare — $1,809 · OtherSt Matthews Homeless WelfareHabitat for Humanity — $975 · OtherHabitat for HumanityIndividual grant recipient — $900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $650 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSaint Matthews Homeless Welfare — $650 · OtherSaint Matthews Homeless WelfareCallaway Gardens — $643 · OtherCallaway GardensSalvation Army — $605 · OtherHearing Dog Society — $600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $550 · OtherMARSH PADDLERS INC — $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $400 · Other+17 more — $3,250 · Other+17 moreGEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY — $600 · AnimalsNAPLES ZOO INC — $100 · AnimalsVALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $500 · Housing & ShelterLIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC — $200 · Human ServicesPARAGON SERVICE DOGS — $200 · Human ServicesNaples Pathways Coalition Inc — $350 · Recreation & SportsBIKES FOR TYKES INC — $200 · PhilanthropyTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC — $200 · Arts & CultureCANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC — $150 · Health
Other$11,532Animals$700Housing & Shelter$500Human Services$400Recreation & Sports$350Philanthropy$200Arts & Culture$200Health$150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Pathways Coalition Inc — $350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF BONITA SPRINGS INC — $350 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIKES FOR TYKES INC — $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARAGON SERVICE DOGS — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY
  • Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds Naples Pathways Coalition Inc
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF BONITA SPRINGS INC
  • Who funds BIKES FOR TYKES INC
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC
  • Who funds PARAGON SERVICE DOGS
  • Who funds THE NAPLES PLAYERS INC
  • Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC
  • Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC

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.

The League Club IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The League Club Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 David E and Morgan S Kaufman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to David E and Morgan S Kaufman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David E and Morgan S Kaufman Foundation 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 37 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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