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Kass-Warren Foundation Corp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$241k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Philanthropy$161kFood & Nutrition$52kPublic Benefit$10kHealth$8kCivil Rights$6kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$30,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$25,000
FOOD & WATER WATCH$20,000
FOOD & WATER WATCH$10,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MI VICENO - ACTBLUE CIVICS INC: $5k → 8%FIXING FELINES OF ISLIP TOWNSHIP: $1k → 7%REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT: $3k → 17%CITY HARVEST: $20k → 20%FOOD & WATER WATCH: $20k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $2k → 18%LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE: $10k → 8%ELEVATED ACCESS INC: $5k → 19%NAACP: $4k → 19%THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $3k → 17%FOOD & WATER WATCH: $10k → 14%NY PUBLIC RADIO: $45k → 17%RESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE: $2k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
MD
DC
AL
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 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
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
3
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
4
Second Harvest Heartland

Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.

Food & Nutrition
5
Center for a Humane Economy Inc

There are many pathways for improving the lives of animals, but encouraging corporations to embed animal protection values into their production practices, supply chains, marketing efforts and research and development activities may be the…

Animals
6
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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7
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
8
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
9
Sharing Excess

Sharing excess (se) is a philadelphia-based nonprofit that uses surplus food as a solution to scarcity. while over 40 million people in the us face food insecurity, nearly 40% of the nation's food supply is going to waste. our mission is…

Food & Nutrition
10
Socially Responsible Agriculture Project Inc

To conduct charitable, scientific and educational activities designed to foster the production of food in a manner that is economically viable and environmentally sound and provides for healthy and humanely raised products.

Food & Nutrition
11
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reproductive Health Access Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Animal Medical Center. 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 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND: $161,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $10,000 · OtherFOOD & WATER WATCH: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD & WATER WATC…CITY HARVEST INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC+1 more: $1,500 · Food & NutritionElevated Access Inc: $5,000 · Civil RightsREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT INC: $2,500 · HealthTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $2,500 · AnimalsSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$276,000Food & Nutrition$51,500Civil Rights$5,000Health$2,500Animals$2,500Crime & Legal$2,000

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 budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetElevated Access Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $1,500 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Kass-Warren Foundation Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kass-Warren Foundation Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kass-Warren Foundation Corp?

    Find your warmest path to Kass-Warren Foundation Corp 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 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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