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Kauffmann Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Kauffmann Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$765k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$1.3MReligion$1.1MHealth$767kPhilanthropy$659kHuman Services$597kEducation$594kYouth Development$209kHousing & Shelter$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $562k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$20,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD VISION$100,000
CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDRENS MINISTIRES$60,000
GREENWOOD ROTARY FOUNDATION$45,000
DOULOS PARTNERS$40,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$37,500
THE HOPE CENTER$30,000
DIRECT RELIEF$29,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$29,000
RIVENDELL INSTITUTE$27,500
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$25,000
COLSON CENTER$25,000
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION$25,000
HOPE FOR NEW YORK$25,000
THE VERITAS FORUM$25,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$22,000
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 (FY18–25, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDRENS MINISTIRES: $150k → 18%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDRENS MINISTIRES: $100k → 18%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDRENS MINISTIRES: $60k → 18%COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25k → 18%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $8k → 18%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDRENS MINISTRIES: $5k → 18%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 18%MEG'S HOUSE: $10k → 18%MEG'S HOUSE: $10k → 18%MEG'S HOUSE: $10k → 18%MEG'S HOUSE: $10k → 18%MEG'S HOUSE: $5k → 18%GREENWOOD PROMISE: $3k → 18%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 47 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
20

Total granted

$5.0M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+0%

Still filing today

60%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CM
    Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries
    6× · 2018–2025 · $328k · revenue +87%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +134%
  • TL
    THE LANDER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $275k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • LB
    LANDER BAPTIST CAMPUS MINISTRY
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • CI
    COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +48%
  • GA
    GREENWOOD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -46%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
11
Gates Medical Research Institute

The gates mri engages directly in the conduct of medical research in conjunction with one or more hospitals for the purpose of addressing major causes of illness and death in low-and lower-middle-income countries.

Health
12
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

43 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. 43 of the 74 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LANDER FOUNDATION: $275,250 · OtherTHE LANDER FOUNDATIONGREENWOOD ROTARY FOUNDATION: $211,000 · OtherGREENWOOD ROTARY FOUNDATIONTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $150,000 · OtherTHE HOPE CENTER INCAMIGOS DE LAS AMERICAS: $111,500 · OtherREDEEMER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NEW YORK: $105,000 · OtherSELF REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherDAV CHARITABLE SERVICE TRUST: $91,000 · OtherLAKELAND BAPTIST ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 · OtherCRU: $75,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $189,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA …+31 more: $797,803 · Other+31 moreDOULOS PARTNERS: $270,000 · InternationalDOULOS PARTNERSDIRECT RELIEF: $200,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $193,750 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE …WORLD VISION INC: $180,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $158,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIER…THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · International+3 more: $36,250 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $295,250 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S P…RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC: $192,500 · ReligionRIVENDELL INS…THE VERITAS FORUM INC: $145,000 · ReligionTHE VERITAS F…The Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $45,000 · ReligionThe Colson Ce…CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $177,000 · HealthCANCER RESE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $137,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $120,000 · HealthSEMPER FI &…SMA ANGELS CHARITY INC: $65,000 · HealthSMA ANGELS …PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $45,000 · HealthPANCREATIC …THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 · HealthTHE SHRINER…+1 more: $2,500 · HealthConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries: $327,750 · Human ServicesMEG'S HOUSE: $45,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR NEW YORK: $190,000 · PhilanthropyOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $111,750 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $17,500 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $149,750 · EducationWilliams College: $65,000 · EducationTHE GENEVA SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · Education
Other$2,190,553International$1,088,000Religion$677,750Health$581,500Human Services$400,250Philanthropy$389,250Education$227,250

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 budgetConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries: $327,750 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $295,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LANDER FOUNDATION: $275,250 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetDOULOS PARTNERS: $270,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $200,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $193,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC: $192,500 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetHOPE FOR NEW YORK: $190,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $189,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $177,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $158,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $150,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $149,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERITAS FORUM INC: $145,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $137,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $120,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $111,750 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSELF REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMA ANGELS CHARITY INC: $65,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $60,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEG'S HOUSE: $45,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFeeding America: $36,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE GENEVA SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION IN SPAIN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetABBEVILLE YOUTH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWOOD PROMISE LLC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $2,500 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.

  • Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds THE LANDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOULOS PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds RIVENDELL INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds SELF REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds SMA ANGELS CHARITY INC ↗
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds The Colson Center for Christian Worldview ↗

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.

Countybank FoundationDavis Family Foundati…The Signatry Charitab…The Self FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Servant FoundationDuke Energy FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Countybank FoundationSC20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Countybank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Self Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Servant Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Kauffmann Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kauffmann Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report 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.

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 74 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home