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John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$4.2MFood & Nutrition$850kAnimals$127kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
3
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VENTURA LAND TRUST: $250k → 10%THE WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: $25k → 10%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $20k → 10%THE LAND CONSERVANCY: $235k → 12%CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $25k → 12%SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $50k → 14%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200k → 7%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $10k → 10%CARRIZO PLAIN CONSERVANCY: $10k → 12%CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $25k → 12%SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $25k → 14%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 7%WESTERN FOUNDATION OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY: $62k → 10%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $10k → 10%CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $25k → 12%NATURETRACK FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 7%WESTERN FOUNDATION OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY: $46k → 10%CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $25k → 12%NATURETRACK FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 14%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA: $10k → 7%OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $10k → 10%CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $440k → 12%NATURETRACK FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 7%CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $25k → 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA: $10k → 7%CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $210k → 12%REGENTS OF UCSB: $100k → 14%CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $15k → 12%REGENTS OF UCSB: $50k → 14%COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY: $90k → 14%CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE: $60k → 14%COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY: $46k → 14%COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY: $20k → 14%THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $426k → 14%COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY: $20k → 14%THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $325k → 14%COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY: $15k → 14%GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY: $50k → 14%WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT: $25k → 14%SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER: $10k → 14%SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER: $10k → 14%SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER: $10k → 14%SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER: $10k → 14%SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER: $10k → 14%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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 83%.

John S Kiewit Memorial Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 15 repeat orgs$769k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$4.2M
$769k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
0%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $769k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +179%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $855k · revenue +109%
  • CR
    CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $790k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • VL
    VENTURA LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • TL
    THE LAND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2024 · $235k
  • WB
    WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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
2
Northern California Regional Land Trust

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…

Environment
3
Redwood Coast Land Conservancy

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…

Environment
4
Land Trust of Santa Cruz County

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…

Environment
5
Golden State Land Conservancy Inc

Promote conservation easements and resource management plans that conserve agriculture lands, forestlands, wildlife habitat, open space, and other natural resources, in perpetuity.

Environment
6
Ventana Wilderness Alliance

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.

Environment
7
Rivers & Lands Conservancy

Rivers & Lands Conservancy connects our community to natural, wild, and open spaces of Southern California through land conservation, stewardship and education.

Environment
8
Sequoia Riverlands Trust

We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.

Environment
9
Mendocino Land Trust

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.

Environment
10
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

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.

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11
The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County

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.

Environment
12
Big Sur Land Trust

The mission of the Big Sur Land Trust is to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County; 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.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 26 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $1,136,700 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTYTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $855,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $281,000 · EnvironmentTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCYVENTURA LAND TRUST: $250,000 · EnvironmentVENTURA LAND TRUSTCoastal Ranches Conservancy: $196,975 · EnvironmentCoastal Ranches ConservancyLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $193,000 · EnvironmentLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC+6 more: $355,000 · Environment+6 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $320,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE LAND CONSERVANCY: $235,000 · OtherTHE LAND CONSERVANCYNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $175,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIO…Individual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…WESTERN FOUNDATION OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY: $107,372 · OtherWESTERN FOUNDATION OF V…CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE: $60,000 · OtherCENTER FOR URBAN AGRICU…CARRIZO PLAIN CONSERVANCY: $43,500 · Other+1 more: $25,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $790,000 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA RANGE…NATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC: $57,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE SANTA CLARA RIVER: $25,000 · PhilanthropyWilderness Youth Project Inc: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTURTLE CONSERVANCY: $19,243 · AnimalsWISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$3,267,675Other$1,115,872Food & Nutrition$790,000Education$57,500Philanthropy$25,000Youth Development$25,000Animals$19,243Arts & Culture$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $1,136,700 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $855,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $790,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $320,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $281,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetVENTURA LAND TRUST: $250,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCoastal Ranches Conservancy: $196,975 over 6y, 41% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $193,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetWESTERN FOUNDATION OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY: $107,372 over 2y, 15% of budgetChannel Islands Restoration: $80,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST: $75,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC: $57,500 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetGAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCARRIZO PLAIN CONSERVANCY: $43,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetThe Wildlands Conservancy: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SANTA CLARA RIVER: $25,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTURTLE CONSERVANCY: $19,243 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Marin Community Found…Emmett FoundationThe Kirby-Jones Found…PatagoniaorgCalifornia Community …Raintree FoundationThe Osherenko-Young F…Patricia Bragg Founda…Fund for Santa Barbar…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Hutton Foundation Dba…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA31.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to John S Kiewit Memorial 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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