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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 FY2019
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$205kRecreation & Sports$140kCrime & Legal$40kHuman Services$30k
02FY2019 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $100,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $110,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$60k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELP HOPE LIVE$30,000
MAGEE REHABILITATION$20,000
THE MIAMI PROJECT$20,000
ART REACH$10,000
EMPOWER SPINAL CORD INJURY$10,000
LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE: $10k → 8%OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE: $10k → 8%MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $10k → 6%INGLIS HOUSE: $10k → 22%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$395k · 7 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

+112%
+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.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • MR
    MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $140k · revenue +112%
  • HI
    HELPHOPELIVE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +46%
  • ES
    Empower Spinal Cord Injury Incorporated
    3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue ×15 · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • ML
    MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOGgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • IH
    INGLIS HOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -12%
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
Inglis Foundation

The inglis foundation's mission is to enable people with disabilities, and those who care for them, to achieve their goals and live life to the fullest. inglis partners with the disability community to provide practical solutions that…

Human Services
2
Inglis Community Services Inc

Inglis' mission is to enable people with disabilities - and those who care for them - to achieve their goals and live life to the fullest.

Human Services
3
Genesis Health Inc

To advance health and well-being of persons requiring rehabilitation through superior outcomes, service, education and research.

Health
4
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 1947. following decades of dedicated advocacy and service for other similarly situated veterans, pva was…

Health
5
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
6
Paralyzed Veterans of America Mountain States Chapter

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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7
Homes for Veterans a Nj Non Profit Corporation

Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…

Housing & Shelter
8
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
9
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
10
Curepsp Inc

To raise awareness, build community, improve care and find a cure for psp, cbd and msa.

Health
11
Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America

To aid, assist, publicize and advocate for continued research for injuries and diseases to help in the health of veterans. as well as address various needs in other areas that concern veterans.

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12
Miami Cerebral Palsy Residential Services Inc

The organization's mission is to affect positively the quality of life for persons with cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities, to meet their multiple needs and those of their families, and to prevent developmental…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis Inc; 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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $140,000 · HealthMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONHELPHOPELIVE INC: $80,000 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INCEmpower Spinal Cord Injury Incorporated: $45,000 · HealthEmpower Spinal Cord Injury IncorporatedTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INCLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED: $40,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL CLIN…OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION …MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAIN LINE …INGLIS HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesINGLIS HOU…ARTREACH INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$305,000Crime & Legal$40,000Human Services$40,000Arts & Culture$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEmpower Spinal Cord Injury Incorporated: $45,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED: $40,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetARTREACH INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetOPERATION FIRST RESPONSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINGLIS HOUSE: $10,000 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.

Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Christopher Reeve Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust UwPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Katie Samson Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Katie Samson 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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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