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Kadima Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$999k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.4MHealth$2.2MEducation$2.2MPublic Benefit$350kHuman Services$55kPhilanthropy$45kCommunity Improvement$25kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $983k
$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Jewish University$200,000
New Roads School$200,000
Dunn School$158,333
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$125,000
UCSF Foundation$125,000
Breakthrough T1D$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
Max 102 Foundation$8,744
Armand Hammer Museum Of Art And Cultural Center In$7,326
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Jewish Family and Children's Service: $5k → 10%Visionary Women: $25k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $25k → 14%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 21% of Kadima 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, 94% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Kadima 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 20 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
35

Total granted

$6.7M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+33%

Still filing today

90%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPublic BenefitEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NR
    NEW ROADS SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2024 · $760k · revenue +35%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES
    3× · 2018–2021 · $742k · revenue +74%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    6× · 2017–2023 · $560k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AH
    Armand Hammer Museum of Art And Cultural Center Inc. (Hammer Museum)
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • JI
    JDRF International (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)
    one grant, 2021 · $210k
  • JD
    Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $200k

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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
5
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
8
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Latin American Art

The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is The Max 102 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%34%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr12%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%24%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr12%40%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
14%
10,926/78,790

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.

05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 61 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
34/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $1,441,926 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL C…THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $742,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELESSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $560,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $160,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $226,700 · Arts & Culture+15 moreNEW ROADS SCHOOL — $760,000 · EducationNEW ROADS SCHOOLAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $690,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $425,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FR…DUNN SCHOOL — $268,333 · EducationDUNN SCHOOLUCLA FOUNDATION — $106,500 · Education+4 more — $93,000 · EducationCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $550,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDI…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $520,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 · HealthMARIN GENERAL HOS…+3 more — $60,000 · HealthArmand Hammer Museum of Art And Cultural Center Inc. (Hammer Museum) — $250,000 · OtherArmand Hammer M…JDRF International (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) — $210,000 · OtherJDRF Internatio…Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation — $200,000 · OtherJuvenile Diabet…American Jewish University (includes payment to Camp Alonim) — $200,000 · OtherAmerican Jewish…Individual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherIndividual gran…MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION HYBIRD OR — $50,000 · Other+14 more — $175,975 · Other+14 moreThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $350,000 · Public BenefitVISIONARY WOMEN — $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $5,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $25,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $2,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$3,130,626Education$2,342,833Health$1,330,000Other$1,160,975Public Benefit$350,000Human Services$55,000Philanthropy$42,000

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 budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $1,441,926 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNEW ROADS SCHOOL — $760,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $742,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $690,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $560,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $550,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $520,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $425,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $350,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDUNN SCHOOL — $268,333 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $160,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $106,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISIONARY WOMEN — $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MAX 102 FOUNDATION — $34,475 over 2y, 78% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FORUM FOR ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DES — $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ENCINOS SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH STORY PARTNERS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArt Jewelry Forum — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt into Acres — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSERPENTINE AMERICAS FOUNDATION FKA AMERICAS FOUNDATION OF THE SERPENTINE GA — $13,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMarin Museum of Contemporary Art — $11,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE LA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS LONDON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMuseum of Craft and Design — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEDGEBROOK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIBURON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $500 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Koret FoundationMarin Community Found…Morgan Stanley Global…Jewish Community Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…California Community …National Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Koret Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Kadima 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kadima Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kadima 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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