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Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597

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.

$37M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$17M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$41MArts & Culture$8.4MEducation$2.2MHealth$1.0MPublic Benefit$915kSocial Science$712kInternational$413kCivil Rights$344kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $440k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $623k
  • $250k+3 grants · $36M
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$345k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DISTRACTED GLOBE FOUNDATION$17,497,187
KAT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$17,497,185
PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC$770,000
ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC$200,000
ASSOCIATION FOR SLAVIC EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES$88,000
ASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC$75,000
ZACCHO S F$60,000
ANDRE CAILLOUX CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS AND CULTURAL JUSTICE$50,000
BARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA)$50,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$50,000
JOURNALISM NEW ENGLAND$50,000
CRUSHING COLONIALISM$42,000
INSTITUTE FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE INC$37,500
ARTEQUITY COMMUNITY$30,000
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC$30,000
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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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC - CERI: $4k → 10%LOOKING GLASS ARTS INC: $15k → 10%ENFAMILIA INC: $8k → 15%NATIVES OF ONE WIND INDIGENOUS ALLIANCE: $3k → 13%LOOKING GLASS ARTS INC: $10k → 10%LOOKING GLASS ARTS INC: $11k → 20%GIDEONS PROMISE INC: $3k → 13%RIGHTS BEHIND BARS INC: $3k → 14%RIGHTS BEHIND BARS INC: $3k → 14%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $10k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $5k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $16k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 85 repeat orgs$37M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

85 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
130

Total granted

$18M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

94%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TR
    THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +37%
  • SA
    ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +57%
  • RT
    RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $810k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -23%
  • CC
    CHOOSE CHICAGO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%

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
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
2
Pangea World Theater

Pangea World Theater strives to build a just world by creating multi-disciplinary theater that embodies decolonizing practices of solidarity, sustainability and equity.

Arts & Culture
3
Mixed Blood Theatre Company

Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.

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4
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc

To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.

Arts & Culture
5
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
7
Profile Theatre Project

Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…

Arts & Culture
8
The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture
9
The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc

The Theater of the Emerging American Moment, Inc. (The TEAM), is a Brooklyn-based theatre ensemble whose mission is to collaboratively create new works about the experience of living in America today, and to generate dialogue about our…

Arts & Culture
10
The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture
11
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Bob's Living Proof 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsLocal Food System Organizat…Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesLgbtq+ Community SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…Local History MuseumsJewish Community Organizati…Public Library OperationsDance Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%38%10–20yr19%45%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/231
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,529

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.

04the grantee network

219 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. 219 of the 243 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
217/219
Grantees still filing
106/219
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DISTRACTED GLOBE FOUNDATION — $17,497,187 · PhilanthropyDISTRACTED GLOBE FOUNDATIONKAT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $17,497,185 · PhilanthropyKAT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC+6 more — $730,000 · PhilanthropyPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $1,870,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN C…ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC — $1,200,000 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S WAREH…artEquity Community — $720,000 · Arts & CultureartEquity Comm…NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY — $264,500 · Arts & CultureBARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA) — $260,000 · Arts & Culture+79 more — $2,889,999 · Arts & Culture+79 moreVARIOUS CHARITIES — $6,104,684 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITIE…+76 more — $2,101,019 · Other+76 moreTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $1,550,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR AMERICAS FUTURE INC — $187,500 · EducationKopkind Colony — $135,000 · EducationAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $115,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $100,000 · EducationRoots Action Education Fund — $95,000 · Education+17 more — $490,500 · EducationRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC — $810,000 · HealthDeep Medicine Circle — $100,000 · HealthMEDIA COLLECTIVE INC — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthASSOCIATION FOR SLAVIC EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES — $667,008 · Social Science+1 more — $10,000 · Social ScienceCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER — $500,000 · Public BenefitBob's Living Proof Inc — $25,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$35,724,372Arts & Culture$7,204,499Other$8,205,703Education$2,673,000Health$965,000Social Science$677,008Public Benefit$525,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDISTRACTED GLOBE FOUNDATION — $17,497,187 over 1y, 94% of budgetKAT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $17,497,185 over 1y, 98% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $1,870,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $1,550,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC — $1,200,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC — $810,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetartEquity Community — $720,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR SLAVIC EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES — $667,008 over 4y, 14% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER — $500,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC — $455,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetNOTCH THEATRE COMPANY — $264,500 over 5y, 34% of budgetBARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA) — $260,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR AMERICAS FUTURE INC — $187,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC — $162,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $155,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $152,449 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOAKLAND THEATER PROJECT — $150,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetANDRE CAILLOUX CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS — $150,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetTHE TANK LTD — $145,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc — $140,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKopkind Colony — $135,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $125,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $115,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC — $103,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC — $102,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUSE BOX AUSTIN — $101,500 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetDeep Medicine Circle — $100,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOOSE CHICAGO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCity Report Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BARROW GROUP INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRoots Action Education Fund — $95,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $83,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPowerCorpsPHL — $75,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Jackson Park — $75,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetELAINE LEGACY CENTER INC — $72,340 over 2y, 20% of budgetPUBLIC TRUST — $65,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetMABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetTEACH WITH AFRICA — $60,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCrowded Fire Theater Company — $60,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetMEDIA COLLECTIVE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAIRVOTE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Distracted Globe Foun…The Shubert Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…New England Foundatio…The Map Fund IncThe Howard Gilman Fou…Mid Atlantic Arts IncAlliance of Resident …The Ford FoundationThe Tow Foundation IncAxe-Houghton Foundati…Tides Foundation
Distracted Globe FoundationNY88.1× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Distracted Globe Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Map Fund Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Tow Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Tides 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 Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Boston Dance Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Craft Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Bread & Puppet Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597?

Find your warmest path to Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597 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 243 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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