How much did JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION reported 24 grants totaling $2,871,319 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION based?

JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is based in CA.

JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$2.9M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$500k

Largest

01What you fund

0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$3.1MFood & Nutrition$850kPhilanthropy$25kYouth Development$25kAnimals$19kArts & Culture$5kOther$1.3M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

irc sectionsection benefit

2019

irc sectionsection benefit

2020

habitatcoastpreserveacquisition

2021

coastpreserve

2022

creekpreserve

2023

conservancylandsanta barbara

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k9 grants · $251k
$50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
$250k+4 grants · $1.5M

$70,000

Median grant

States reached

$70M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$500,000
CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST$440,000
THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$325,000
VENTURA LAND TRUST$250,000
THE LAND CONSERVANCY$235,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$200,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$125,000
LOS PADRES FOREST WATCH$110,000
REGENTS OF UCSB$100,000
WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST$75,000
OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY$75,000
CHANNEL ISLANDS RESTORATION$70,000
CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE$60,000
GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY$50,000
COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY$46,483

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 90% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.5M · 18 repeat orgs$769k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +117% since the first grant, against +97% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$769k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+117%

+97%

Still filing today

67%

90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $769k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

TL
THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
5× · 2017–2024 · $933k · revenue +144%
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
8× · 2017–2024 · $855k · revenue +117%
CR
CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST
8× · 2017–2024 · $790k · revenue +81%

Funded once

VL
VENTURA LAND TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +307%
TL
THE LAND CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2024 · $235k
WB
WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +174%

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.

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

The museum inspires a thirst for discovery and a passion for the natural world.

Arts & Culture

The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo

|to conserve and care for wildlands, farms, and ranches, and connect people to the land.

Environment

Northern California Regional Land Trust

Conservation of agricultural lands, open space, wildlife habitat and natural resources within butte, glenn, and tehama counties.

Environment

Connecting California Conservancy

Environment

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

CalWild

CalWild protects our state's drinking water and wild places by seeking new protections for streams and natural areas on public lands. Current campaigns include: the Sierra Forests, NW CA, the Desert, the San Gabriel Mts and the Central…

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Nature Trust of the Santa Monica Mountai

Environment

Redwood Coast Land Conservancy

We conserve lands for recreational, educational, ecological, agricultural, scenic and open space opportunities. We also develop and maintain public access ways and trails to the ocean, rivers and other natural or scenic features along…

Environment

Coastal Prairie Conservancy

Protecting the coastal prairie for the benefit of its wildlife and the people of Texas.

Environment

Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment

Shasta Land Trust

Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california

Environment

Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Rangeland Trust and the most unlike its peers is Coastal Ranches Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

18/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$3,063,975Other$1,317,072Food & Nutrition$850,000Philanthropy$25,000Youth Development$25,000Animals$19,243Arts & Culture$5,000

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

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Emmett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Osherenko-Young Foundation · Www Foundation · Hutton Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 organisation JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~18 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 13.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 680554135 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 41% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation?

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JOHN S KIEWIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation?

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