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Kates Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k41 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION | $10,000 |
| AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY | $10,000 |
| CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| BRIGID ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| STUDIO PLACE ARTS | $10,000 |
| VERMONT FOOD BANK | $8,500 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER | $5,000 |
| ANIKAYA | $5,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER | $5,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $17k · revenue +13%
- AOAIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +2%
- SPSTUDIO PLACE ARTS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CNCharity Navigatorone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -47%
Feeding Americaone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +17%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -40%
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 mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
See schedule othe mission of the vermont council on world affairs is to promote awareness and understanding of the world and its people, places and cultures through education and engagement. the future of vermont depends upon the world…
USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.
The mission of the national coalition on health care (nchc) is to support research and analysis, develop and promote policy solutions, build consensus, and engage the public in order to ensure that america has a high quality health system…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 65 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 MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds Tougaloo College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VOTES ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN ↗
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: The Vermont Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Tides Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Boston Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund
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 Kates Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- Circle Inc — 60% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- People's Health and Wellness Clinic — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.
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