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Kamphaus Ehrhardt Foundation at a glance

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Kamphaus Ehrhardt 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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$91k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$373k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$35,000
QPS FOUNDATION$10,000
ST MARY'S SCHOOL$1,000
CHRIST SCHOOL$1,000
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: $200 → 15%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%ST MARY'S SCHOOL: $1k → 8%CHRIST SCHOOL FUND: $3k → 12%UGA FOUNDATION: $250 → 27%QPS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $35k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $5k → 15%CHRIST SCHOOL: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $500 → 27%QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%MONSIGNOR DONOVAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $6k → 27%QUINCY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $100 → 15%ATHENS ACADEMY: $600 → 27%QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%QUINCY NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 13%QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $800 → 13%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24k · 3 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$24k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • QN
    QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +53%
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $6k · revenue +156%
  • AA
    Athens Academy Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • MD
    MONSIGNOR DONOVAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • QU
    QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +38%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
2
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
3
Trinity College

To expand on the mission statement made on page 1, trinity's core mission values and characteristics emphasize: 1)commitment to the education of women in a particular way through the design and pedagogy of the historic undergraduate…

Education
4
Suffield Academy

Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Saint Martin's University

Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…

Education
7
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
8
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Saint Augustine's University

The mission of the University is to prepare students personally, socially, and intellectually to effectively function in a global and technological society.

Education
11
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Saint Marys School. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Illinois Foundation: $35,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationQUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $16,815 · EducationQUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $5,600 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $5,000 · EducationQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION+4 more: $3,650 · Education+4 moreQPS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherQPS FOUNDATIONMONSIGNOR DONOVAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherMONSIGNOR DONOVAN CATHOLIC SCHO…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGONCHRIST SCHOOL FUND: $2,500 · OtherCHRIST SCHOOL FUNDQUINCY NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $1,000 · Other+2 more: $700 · Other
Education$66,065Other$25,200

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $16,815 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $5,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAthens Academy Inc: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kamphaus Ehrhardt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kamphaus Ehrhardt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • University of Oregon Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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