· Private foundation
John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY | $75,000 |
| WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST | $75,000 |
| CHANNEL ISLANDS RESTORATION | $70,000 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE | $60,000 |
| GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY | $46,483 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% 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 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $769k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TLTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +179%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND8× · 2017–2024 · $855k · revenue +109%- CRCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $790k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- VLVENTURA LAND TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
- TLTHE LAND CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $235k
- WBWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…
To conserve lands for recreational, educational, ecological, agricultural, scenic & open space opportunities. We develop & maintain public access ways & trails to the ocean, rivers & other natural or scenic features along coastal Mendocino…
Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…
Promote conservation easements and resource management plans that conserve agriculture lands, forestlands, wildlife habitat, open space, and other natural resources, in perpetuity.
The mission of the Ventana Wilderness Alliance is to protect, preserve, and restore the wilderness qualities and biodiversity of the public lands within California's northern Santa Lucia Mountains and Big Sur coast.
Rivers & Lands Conservancy connects our community to natural, wild, and open spaces of Southern California through land conservation, stewardship and education.
We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.
To conserve and restore valuable natural resources of Mendocino County Region. Dedicated to providing public access to the coast & protecting working farmlands, forests, wildlife habitat, open space, scenic vistas & watersheds.
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
We conserve and care for the diverse wildlands, farms, and ranches of the central coast. we connect people to the land and to each other.
The mission of the Big Sur Land Trust is to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County and the most unlike its peers is Nature Track 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.
21 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. 21 of the 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds VENTURA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Coastal Ranches Conservancy ↗
- Who funds LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN FOUNDATION OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Channel Islands Restoration ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CARRIZO PLAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Wildlands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SANTA CLARA RIVER ↗
- Who funds TURTLE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Emmett Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Patagoniaorg · California Community Foundation · Raintree Foundation · The Osherenko-Young Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Fund for Santa Barbara Inc · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker 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 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.
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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