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Kairos 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNTAIN VISTA UNITARIAN UNIVERSALI | $3,944 |
| ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT | $3,650 |
| COMMON GROUND MEDITATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| INEQUALITY MEDIA | $500 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $500 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $300 |
| THE MORE THAN PROJECT | $207 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $200 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $200 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $200 |
| THE LOFT | $200 |
| UNITY UNITARIAN CHURCH | $150 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $125 |
| ARIZONA SONORA DESERT MUSEUM | $125 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $75) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 17 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA7× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +5%
- ASALL SQUARE2× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +37%
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC3× · 2018–2023 · $800 · revenue +78%
Funded once
- LHLIVING HOPE MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +48%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +235%
- ACANTIOCH COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $900
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.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Venn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The More Than Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 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.
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 VENN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds ALL SQUARE ↗
- Who funds LIVING HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INEQUALITY MEDIA ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MORE THAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE LOFT INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOHONO CHUL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization Kairos 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.