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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.

$188k
Granted FY2023
46
Grants FY2023
13
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Health$46kCivil Rights$44kCrime & Legal$30kInternational$22kArts & Culture$19kEducation$18kHuman Services$17kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0
02FY2023 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k41 grants · $138k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIRCLE$10,000
MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION$10,000
AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY$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
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
ANIKAYA$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
OUR BODIES OURSELVES TODAY$5,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $3k → 8%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $9k → 7%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $750 → 8%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $750 → 8%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $750 → 8%CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSP: $3k → 9%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PR: $1k → 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

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
MS
TX
FL
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$191k · 26 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
13

Total granted

$191k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+7%

Still filing today

69%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalHealthCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $17k · revenue +13%
  • AO
    AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +2%
  • SP
    STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CN
    Charity Navigator
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -47%
  • Feeding America
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -40%
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
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
2
The Vermont Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
3
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

—
4
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
5
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

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.

Education
6
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
7
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

—
9
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
10
Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

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…

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11
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
12
National Coalition On Health Care

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIRCLE INC: $14,220 · OtherCIRCLE INCIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $8,500 · OtherADVOCATES FOR YOUTHANIKAYA: $7,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,250 · OtherOUR BODIES OURSELVES TODAY: $5,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5,000 · OtherAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,000 · OtherVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: $5,000 · OtherSTUDIO PLACE ARTS INC: $12,500 · OtherSTUDIO PLACE ARTS INCCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $9,220 · OtherCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC+26 more: $50,540 · Other+26 moreMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $18,500 · Civil RightsMIDWEST ACCE…FAIRVOTE: $4,750 · Civil RightsFAIRVOTEMISSISSIPPI VOTES: $3,650 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI …REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $3,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IM…THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $2,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PA…NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC: $2,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL COA…+1 more: $550 · Civil RightsALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $17,250 · HealthALZHEIMER'S …AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $8,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC …PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN …PEOPLE'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC: $1,720 · HealthTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $1,600 · HealthAIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY INC: $15,000 · EducationAIKIDO OF C…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $9,250 · EducationWESLEYAN UN…Tougaloo College: $7,000 · EducationTougaloo Co…THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID…Charity Navigator: $8,500 · Human ServicesCharity Na…FRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $5,250 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP…Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesCentral Ve…INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $7,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $4,000 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINE: $2,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,500 · InternationalVERMONT FOODBANK: $11,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$143,230Civil Rights$34,450Health$33,570Education$31,250Human Services$27,250International$20,000Food & Nutrition$16,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $18,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $17,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCIRCLE INC: $14,220 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSTUDIO PLACE ARTS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $9,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $9,220 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Navigator: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTougaloo College: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $5,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $4,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VOTES: $3,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCentral Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH FOR OUR LIVES FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidwest Academy: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS CLINIC: $1,720 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARK THEATRE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $550 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 Vermont Community…WK Kellogg FoundationNational Life Group C…Eastern Bank Foundati…Tides FoundationCommunity Foundation …Boston Foundation IncBen & Jerry's Foundat…American Tower Corpor…Annie E Casey Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…New Venture Fund
The Vermont Community FoundationVT16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kates Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kates Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Kates Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Kates Foundation Inc 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 65 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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