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K1 Partners 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.

$137k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

67% of K1 Partners Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year K1 Partners Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $137k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’18
6
’19
6
’20
7
’21
11
’22
10
’23
7
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$1.2MPhilanthropy$723kHealth$283kInternational$230kCommunity Improvement$113kPublic Benefit$40kArts & Culture$34kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc$55,000
Torrance Memorial Foundation$30,000
HOPEWELL FUND$20,000
Human Rights Watch$10,000
Manhattan Beach Education Foundation$10,000
Puttin On Productions$5,000
Big Sky Community Organization$3,334
Spanish Peaks Community Foundation$2,000
Yellowstone Club Community Foundation$2,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A CAPPELLA ACADEMY INC: $1k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
DC
TX
FL

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$316k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$1.1M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-1%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • SF
    SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $243k · revenue +203%
  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +10%
  • LI
    LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -1%
  • GL
    GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -13%

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
5
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
6
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
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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9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thrive Scholars and the most unlike its peers is Love Hope Strength Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsLand Conservation Organizat…Government Accountability R…Cancer Support OrganizationsChild and Family ServicesClassical Music EnsemblesYouth Ice Hockey ProgramsPublic School District Foun…Education Equity LeadershipCommunity Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%1%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%48%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,531

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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $600,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIASPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $243,000 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INCTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $200,000 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARSMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $89,505 · EducationMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION+2 more — $15,000 · EducationHOPEWELL FUND — $395,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUNDCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $180,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUND…YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $64,800 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY…+2 more — $8,500 · PhilanthropySPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FND — $80,750 · OtherSPANISH PEAKS …THE GIVING SPIRIT FUND — $75,000 · OtherTHE GIVING SPI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $30,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENT…LEADERSHIP NOW PROJECT — $30,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP NOW…BIG SKY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $25,000 · OtherBIG SKY COMMUN…GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $15,000 · OtherBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $18,501 · OtherBIG SKY COMMUN…+13 more — $71,250 · Other+13 moreTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation — $120,000 · HealthTorrance M…LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 · HealthLUNDQUIST …CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $10,000 · Health+3 more — $12,000 · HealthHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $125,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIG…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $100,000 · InternationalUNITED ST…BROWN UNIVERSITY — $60,000 · Community ImprovementLAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementSPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,000 · Community ImprovementPUTTIN ON PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION — $21,500 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,147,505Philanthropy$648,300Other$345,501Health$242,000International$225,000Community Improvement$92,000Arts & Culture$26,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $395,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $243,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $125,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation — $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $89,505 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $64,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP NOW PROJECT — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPUTTIN ON PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION — $21,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $18,501 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISSUE ONE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUGF Institute Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetRYAN NECE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIXDEGREESORG — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA CAPPELLA ACADEMY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY15.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · 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 K1 Partners 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 · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 44 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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