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Kaelber Private Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$153k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$462kHuman Services$65kReligion$53kArts & Culture$18kHealth$16kHousing & Shelter$14kRecreation & Sports$8kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $153k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$152,975
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE LINK: $2k → 9%HOPE LINK: $1k → 9%HOPE LINK: $500 → 9%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$618k · 14 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$618k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-2%

Still filing today

36%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2025 · $462k · revenue +66%
  • TR
    THE RESCUE MISSION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +58%
  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF JACKSON HOLE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • VM
    VIRGINIA MASON FRANCISCAN HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $3k

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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
2
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

3
Saint Agnes Medical Center

We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical center is a member of trinity health.

Health
4
Ivinson Memorial Hospital

Trusted partners in world-class healthcare. building trust with our patients and with each other.

Health
5
Saint Alphonsus Health System Inc

We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.saint alphonsus health system is a member of trinity health.

Health
6
St Luke Community Hospital

The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…

Health
7
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
8
Virginia Mason Health System

Advance and support the healthcare and research missions of virginia mason medical center and benaroya research institute at virginia mason through governance oversight of both organizations.

Health
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Commonspirit Washington F/K/a Franciscan Health System

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
11
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
Good Shepherd Hospice Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the most unlike its peers is Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $462,336 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYPALM DESERT COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN — $43,200 · OtherPALM DESERT COMMUNITY PRE…SALVATION ARMY — $33,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY — $20,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $13,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RE…KBTC CASCADE PUBLIC TV — $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,500 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF JACKSON HOLE — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · Other+4 more — $7,000 · OtherTHE RESCUE MISSION — $14,000 · Housing & ShelterCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $8,500 · Human ServicesHOPELINK — $3,000 · Human ServicesFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH WITH A MISSION GLEANINGS FOR THE HUNGRY — $7,000 · ReligionThe Alaska Community Foundation — $5,000 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA MASON FRANCISCAN HEALTH — $3,000 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation — $250 · Health
Education$462,336Other$149,700Housing & Shelter$14,000Human Services$11,500Youth Development$7,500Religion$7,000Philanthropy$5,000Health$3,250

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $462,336 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION GLEANINGS FOR THE HUNGRY — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPELINK — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
  • Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION GLEANINGS FOR THE HUNGRY
  • Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation
  • Who funds HOPELINK
  • Who funds St John's Health 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Kaelber Private 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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