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Kattom Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,313,384
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,313,384
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Kattom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$1.3M0%
FY20231$3.0M0%
FY202218$9.0M72%
FY202117$11M82%
FY20202$7.0M50%
FY20193$820k67%
FY20187$6.6M57%
FY20179$6.2Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$21MEnvironment$14MScience & Tech$4.8MCivil Rights$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.8MEducation$1.2MHousing & Shelter$875kRecreation & Sports$505kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
OR
OH
CT
CA
CO
MD
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beneficial State Foundation$19,978,036642%
Nextgen Climate America Inc$9,170,000337%
Curiodyssey$2,850,000338%
Center for American Progress$2,000,00014%
Nextgen Education Fund$1,300,000119%
Ecotrust$1,200,00035%
Advanced Energy Institute$1,000,000122%
Rocky Mountain Institute$1,000,00013%
Center for Ecoliteracy$1,000,000139%
Regenesis Community Development Corporation$850,0002n/a
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Kattom Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBeneficial State Foundation: $19,978,036 over 6y, 42% of budgetNextgen Climate America Inc: $9,170,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetCuriodyssey: $2,850,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $2,000,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNextgen Education Fund: $1,300,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetEcotrust: $1,200,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetAdvanced Energy Institute: $1,000,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCenter for Ecoliteracy: $1,000,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetAspen Global Change Institute Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGolden Gate National Parks Conservancy: $480,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetClimate Action Campaign: $345,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetValue Reporting Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSustainable Markets Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum of Jazz and Art: $140,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco: $110,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUniversity of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOakland Museum of California: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMarin Performing Stars: $95,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetDancers Group: $70,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCompton Kidz Club: $50,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetIgnatian Lay Volunteer Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMovement Strategy Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThird Way Institute: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLone Star Legal Aid: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Tennis Advantage: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetThe Eva Longoria Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLa Union del Pueblo Entero: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHelping Others Pursue Excellence: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLeague to Save Lake Tahoe: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Day Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOhio Legal Help: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSweetwater Spectrum Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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 San Francisco FoundationCA25.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Tomkat Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The California Endowment · Catena Foundation · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc

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.

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How do I get to Kattom Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kattom Foundation 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.

About Kattom Foundation

How much does Kattom Foundation give?
Kattom Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,313,384 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kattom Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (44%), Environment (30%), Science & Tech (10%).
Who are Kattom Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Beneficial State Foundation ($20M), Nextgen Climate America Inc ($9.2M), Curiodyssey ($2.9M).
Does Kattom Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kattom Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kattom Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Tides Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Kattom Foundation based?
Kattom Foundation is based in CA.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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