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· Public charity
KATIE SAMSON FOUNDATION INC
To raise money for spinal cord injury research and to contribute to organizations that improve the quality of life of those with spinal cord injuries
$110k
Granted FY2019
6
Grants
3
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.
Health$305kCrime & Legal$40kHuman Services$40kArts & Culture$30k
02FY2019 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
- HELP HOPE LIVE$30,000
- MAGEE REHABILITATION$20,000
- THE MIAMI PROJECT$20,000
- EMPOWER SPINAL CORD INJURY$10,000
- ART REACH$10,000
- LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED$10,000
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 (FY17–18, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 14%. 25% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$395k · 7 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
2
Total granted
$395k
$20k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+81%
+35%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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
- HHHELP HOPE LIVE3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +62%
- ESEMPOWER SPINAL CORD INJURY3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +733%
- LCLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- IHINGLIS HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -10%
- MLMAIN LINE DEPUTY DOGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +35%
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
Ability Kc
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities.
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2
Abilityfirst
Help children & adults with physical & developmental disabilities realize their full potential throughout their lives.
Human Services
3
Paralyzed Veterans of America
The key objective of pva is to take those actions necessary to restore spinal cord injured or diseased veterans' bodies and life potentials as closely as is humanly possible to those americans not suffering spinal cord dysfunction. this is…
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4
Madison County Community Hospital
To provide exceptional health care in a respectful, compassionate, and healing environment.
Health
5
Michael's Angel Paws Inc
Helping others pawsitively everyday, to enhance the dignity and quality of life for people with visible and invisible disabilities, through the use of a service dog. michael's angel paws offers guidance, training, education and…
Human Services
6
Center for Disabilities
Empowering people with disabilities to function as independently as possible and to be active, contributing members of society.
Human Services
7
Goodlife Innovations Inc
Goodlife's mission is to make a meaningful difference in the everyday lives of individuals who need help to live more independently (individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, brain injuries, physical or age-related…
Human Services
8
Therapy Center Inc
The challenge center is committed to providing skilled physical therapy, specialized fitness and welness programs to rehabilitate, raise the level of independence, and improve the quality of life for children, adults, and seniors with…
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9
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Paralyzed veterans of america (pva) was founded by a group of world war ii veterans with spinal cord injuries and disorders in 1946. following decades of dedicated advocacy and service for other similarly situated veterans, pva was…
Health
10
Paralyzed Veterans of America
The gateway chapter paralyzed veterans of america will use our unique expertise to ensure quality healthcare and provide programs that promote active lifestyles, expand opportunities, and enhance the quality of life for veterans and all…
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11
Leader Dogs for the Blind
Empowering people who are blind or visually impaired with lifelong skills for safe and independent daily travel.
Human Services
12
Center for Independent Living of
Ability 1st, the center for independent living of north florida, is a community-based, nonprofit organization that provides services to persons with varying disabilities. our mission is to empower people with disabilities to live…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc and the most unlike its peers is Main Line Deputy Dog. 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$305,000Crime & Legal$40,000Human Services$40,000Arts & Culture$30,000
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.
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.
Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust UwPA13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Christopher Reeve Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation KATIE SAMSON 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EMPOWER SPINAL CORD INJURY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 275575042 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on EMPOWER SPINAL CORD INJURY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Katie Samson Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Katie Samson Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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