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Keehfus Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Keehfus 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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$95kAnimals$45kArts & Culture$26kEmployment$10kHealth$8kHuman Services$6kYouth Development$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUILDERHAVEN$5,000
NEW HOPE FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
ONONDAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
SKANEATELES CARES INC$1,000
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEW HOPE FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145k · 3 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against +107% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$145k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+107%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • OE
    OCS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $80k
  • GI
    GUILDERHAVEN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +110%
  • AC
    ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SC
    SIENA COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SS
    SARATOGA SUNSHINE FUND INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HI
    HELPHOPELIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · 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
Hearthside Cats Incorporated

An all volunteer no kill cat shelter that assists in the adoption of cats

Animals
2
New York Creative Arts Therapy Foundation Inc

To support families in need of creative arts therapies

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3
Humane Society of Genesee County

To provide services to homeless animals

Animals
4
Allegany County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To provide care for homeless animals

Animals
5
Allegany County Animal Shelter

To help care for unwanted companion animals in allegany county

Animals
6
Healthcare Choices Ny Inc

Healthcare choices ny, inc., a federally qualified health center licensed by the state of new york is an outpatient health center providing community based health services primarily to persons who may have a mental health diagnosis or be…

Health
7
Humane Society of Schuyler County Inc

To eliminate pet overpopulation, prevent animal cruelty, provide quality care for homeless animals, promote responsible pet ownership and help the community to develop humane principles toward all animals.

Animals
8
Historic Palace Inc

Preserving and maintaining community historic theatre.

Arts & Culture
9
New York Save Animals in Veterinary Emergency Inc

None

Animals
10
Hudson Valley Humane Society

Enforce NYS laws against animal cruelty and abuse. Promote animal welfare and find homes for abandoned and unwanted pets.

Animals
11
Helpcare Clinic

Providing medical services for low income patients not covered by any type of health insurance, medicare, or medicaid for residents of buffalo and kearney counties.

Health
12
Ny New Hope Pregnancy Resource Center
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc; the most unlike its peers is Guilderhaven Inc. 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OCS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $80,250 · OtherOCS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSIENA COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP: $10,000 · OtherSIENA COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPSARATOGA SUNSHINE FUND INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherSARATOGA SUNSHINE FUND INCORPORATEDSCHENECTADY RING OF HOPE BOXING CLUB: $5,000 · OtherONONDAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherGUILDERHAVEN INC: $45,000 · EducationGUILDERHAVEN INCARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER AN…LAMPLIGHTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLAMPLIGHTER FO…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureHELPHOPELIVE INC: $7,500 · HealthJAKE'S HELP FROM HEAVEN INC: $500 · HealthNEW HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSKANEATELES CARES CAR CLUB INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$110,250Education$45,000Arts & Culture$25,500Health$8,000Human Services$5,000Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGUILDERHAVEN INC: $45,000 over 9y, 24% of budgetARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAMPLIGHTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNEW HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSKANEATELES CARES CAR CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJAKE'S HELP FROM HEAVEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Community Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Keehfus Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keehfus Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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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