How much did JOSH AND SUSIE KIMELMAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of JOSH AND SUSIE KIMELMAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

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2019

—

2020

function

2021

function

2022

radiofunction socialsocial connectingconnecting jewsjews locallylocally abroad

2023

function socialsocial connectingconnecting jewsjews locallylocally abroad

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

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$489k

Total assets

Largest grants

DES MOINES METRO OPERA$4,500
CONGREGATION BETH EL$3,600
HAR ZION TEMPLE$3,100
TEMPLE BETH OR$3,000
TIFERETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE$3,000
DES MOINES SYMPHONY$1,500
DES MOINES ART CENTER$1,300
GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION$1,000
DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES$700
IOWA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$500

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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 52% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 30% of JOSH AND SUSIE KIMELMAN 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, 80% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

JOSH AND SUSIE KIMELMAN 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$171k · 14 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$171k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%

+29%

Still filing today

36%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureMembership BenefitPhilanthropyEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

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DES MOINES METRO OPERA
7× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +96%
JF
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES
6× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +21%
GD
GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN
4× · 2018–2022 · $2k · revenue +327%

Funded once

IR
IOWA RADIO READING INFORMATION SERVICE
one grant, 2022 · $875 · revenue -17%
AR
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWAgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +90%
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CHRYSALIS
one grant, 2022 · $500

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.

Iowa Pbs Foundation

The iowa pbs foundation exists to foster giving to iowa pbs.

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Des Moines Symphony Association

The mission of the des moines symphony is to enrich, educate, and inspire the community by performing great orchestral music.

Arts & Culture

Iowa Newspaper Association

To improve member newspapers

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Iowa Parks and Recreation Assoc

To assist members in the development of their careers and to support lasting parks and recreation systems.

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Prevent Blindness Iowa

to prevent blindness and preserve sight

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Iowa State Fair Foundation

Raise funds for renovation and preservation of the historic Iowa State Fairgrounds by soliciting and accepting gifts, donations, bequests and grants to help finance infrastructure projects to guarantee the Fair continues to be a salute to…

Recreation & Sports

Des Moines Area Association of

Education

Iowa State University Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land-grant ideals.

Education

Des Moines Jewish Foundation

The foundation was structured to encourage funding of the jewish federation of greater des moines, and is responsible for adding financial stability by broadening the funding base and thereby improving the ability of the des moines jewish…

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Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health

Iowa College Foundation

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Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines and the most unlike its peers is Des Moines Metro Opera Inc. 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

9 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)

9/9

Grantees still filing

7/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$91,775Arts & Culture$41,800Membership Benefit$31,000Philanthropy$6,450Environment$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,500Health$875Animals$500

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.

Community Fdn of Greater Des MoinesIA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · The Levitt Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino · Gartner Family Foundation · Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 JOSH AND SUSIE KIMELMAN 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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. 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: TIFERETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391891607 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 TIFERETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Josh and Susie Kimelman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Josh and Susie Kimelman 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.

JOSH AND SUSIE KIMELMAN 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

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Josh and Susie Kimelman Foundation?

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JOSH AND SUSIE KIMELMAN 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

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Josh and Susie Kimelman Foundation?

More from the funding graph