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Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps

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.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
280
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$9.4MYouth Development$4.5MEducation$4.5MArts & Culture$2.7MEnvironment$2.4MCrime & Legal$2.3MCommunity Improvement$2.2MCivil Rights$1.8MHealth$1.3MOther$14M
02FY2024 · 280 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k99 grants · $245k
  • $10k–50k90 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k88 grants · $9.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
$19,808
Median grant
4
States reached
$147M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIVE AMERICANS IN PHILANTHROPY$1,500,000
DECOLONIZING WEALTH PROJECT$500,000
LA LIGA DE CIUDADES$450,000
RAINBOW CENTER$249,000
COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS$248,161
FEEST$230,000
DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION$200,000
HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK$180,700
MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT$170,201
EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES$170,000
POGO PARK$169,333
YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED (Y-WE)$168,667
CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES & IMMIGRANTS$167,917
COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS$167,024
STREET LEVEL HEALTH PROJECT$166,704
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 (FY19–24, $9.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%VILLAGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $154k → 9%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES & IMMIGRANTS: $168k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $181k → 10%VILLAGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $125k → 9%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES & IMMIGRANTS: $144k → 10%VILLAGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 9%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $127k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $101k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $100k → 10%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $130k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $100k → 9%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $88k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $87k → 10%NORTH BAY HOUSING COALITION: $77k → 10%SOUND OUTREACH: $144k → 9%NORTH BAY HOUSING COALITION: $150k → 10%MSK SOLUTIONS: $100k → 10%A PLACE-2-LIVE: $76k → 10%TACID: $81k → 9%TACID: $75k → 9%EDEN YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER: $97k → 10%EDEN YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER: $93k → 10%EDEN YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER: $85k → 10%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES & IMMIGRANTS (CERI): $96k → 10%UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF WA: $160k → 9%UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF WA: $76k → 9%THE LATINA CENTER: $167k → 9%THE LATINA CENTER: $149k → 9%THE LATINA CENTER: $100k → 9%THE LATINA CENTER: $89k → 9%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $248k → 10%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $100k → 10%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $89k → 10%AFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE: $135k → 9%UTOPIA: $162k → 9%UTOPIA: $155k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $170k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $160k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $128k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $120k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $118k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $100k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $89k → 9%CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK: $167k → 9%CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK: $100k → 9%CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK: $92k → 9%CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK: $89k → 9%CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK: $78k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
CA
CO
VA
DE
TX

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 — 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$39M · 68 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

68 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
96

Total granted

$39M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+18%

Still filing today

88%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • FG
    FIRST GRADUATE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +55%
  • NA
    NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
    5× · 2019–2024 · $875k · revenue +30%
  • SS
    Southeast Seattle Education Coalition
    5× · 2020–2024 · $870k · revenue +278% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • SS
    SEMBRANDO SENTIDO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $448k · revenue -15% · 82% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR HABITAT RECONSTRUCTION
    one grant, 2023 · $448k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $448k

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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
3
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
4
Asian Pacific Environmental Network

APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.

Environment
5
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
6
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
7
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
8
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

Ebase advances economic, racial and social justice by building a just economy in the east bay on good jobs and healthy communities. we address the root causes of economic injustice by developing strategic alliances amount community, faith…

Public Benefit
9
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
10
Lead Liberated

Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with…

Education
11
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
12
Urban Habitat Program

Urban Habitat democratizes power and advances equitable policies to create a just and connected Bay Area for low-income communities of color. We confront structural inequities impacting historically disenfranchised communities. Through…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Excellence in Nonprofits and the most unlike its peers is Korean Community Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Education & Empow…Affordable Housing ProvidersYouth and Family ServicesAddiction Treatment & Menta…Food Banks and Emergency As…Adult Disability Residentia…Faith-Based Community ReliefPerforming Arts Organizatio…Climate and Systems Change …Early Childhood and K-12 Sc…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr18%42%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr12%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr18%49%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr12%1%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/139
the rest of the field
13%
5,090/39,130

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

138 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 138 of the 179 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
54
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/138
Grantees still filing
95/138
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DECOLONIZING WEALTH PROJECT — $1,000,000 · OtherEAST OAKLAND BOXING ASSOCIATION — $866,384 · OtherFOOD RUNNERS — $860,333 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED (Y-WE) — $835,333 · OtherRVC SEATTLE — $892,059 · OtherLA COCINA — $776,041 · OtherNative Americans in Philanthropy — $1,500,000 · OtherNative Americans in PhilanthropyStreet Level Health Project — $668,652 · OtherPogo Park — $860,333 · OtherINTERCULTURAL CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES — $669,167 · Other+89 more — $10,228,756 · Other+89 moreTHE LATINA CENTER — $870,334 · Human ServicesTHE LATINA CENTERHomeless Childrens Network — $869,368 · Human ServicesHomeless Childrens Netw…Coalition On Homelessness — $863,335 · Human ServicesCoalition On Homelessne…East African Community Services — $860,833 · Human ServicesEast African Community …CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK — $669,195 · Human ServicesCONGOLESE INTEGRATION N…Village Community Resource Center — $634,067 · Human ServicesVillage Community Resou…SOMALI HEALTH BOARD — $631,833 · Human ServicesSOMALI HEALTH BOARDEDEN YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER — $607,856 · Human ServicesEDEN YOUTH & FAMILY CEN…CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS — $545,852 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR EMPOWERING R…UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA — $513,015 · Human ServicesUNITED TERRITORIES OF P…AFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE — $475,650 · Human ServicesNorth Bay Housing Coalition — $470,207 · Human ServicesSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES — $390,564 · Human ServicesA Place-2-Live Inc — $324,394 · Human ServicesTACID — $316,724 · Human Services+14 more — $348,860 · Human ServicesFIRST GRADUATE — $1,209,304 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADU…COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS — $860,832 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY P…Old Skool Cafe — $860,349 · Youth DevelopmentOld Skool C…Mindful Life Project — $617,202 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Lif…YES Nature to Neighborhoods — $435,393 · Youth DevelopmentYES Nature …CHOOSE 180 — $374,082 · Youth DevelopmentCHOOSE 180+6 more — $146,848 · Youth DevelopmentSoutheast Seattle Education Coalition — $870,333 · EducationSoutheast S…Zeno — $839,152 · EducationZenoCASA LATINA — $816,685 · EducationCASA LATINAVENTURES — $669,680 · EducationVENTURESPara Los Ninos de Highline — $660,886 · EducationPara Los Ni…PARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT — $502,063 · EducationPARTNER IN …+7 more — $142,300 · EducationNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $875,185 · Arts & CultureEastSide Arts Alliance — $667,763 · Arts & CultureArts Corps — $649,280 · Arts & CultureUPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC — $393,258 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $87,545 · Arts & CulturePlanting Justice — $864,934 · EnvironmentGot Green — $668,492 · EnvironmentUrban Tilth — $502,255 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE SOLANO INC — $332,006 · Environment+3 more — $26,500 · EnvironmentOPEN DOOR LEGAL — $862,883 · Crime & LegalMOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH — $684,190 · Crime & LegalSAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER — $502,524 · Crime & LegalSOLANO ADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE — $214,934 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$19,157,058Human Services$9,392,087Youth Development$4,504,010Education$4,501,099Arts & Culture$2,673,031Environment$2,394,187Crime & Legal$2,265,531

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNative Americans in Philanthropy — $1,500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE — $1,209,304 over 6y, 22% of budgetRVC SEATTLE — $892,059 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $875,185 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE LATINA CENTER — $870,334 over 5y, 20% of budgetSoutheast Seattle Education Coalition — $870,333 over 5y, 29% of budgetHomeless Childrens Network — $869,368 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetEAST OAKLAND BOXING ASSOCIATION — $866,384 over 6y, 37% of budgetPlanting Justice — $864,934 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetCoalition On Homelessness — $863,335 over 5y, 36% of budgetOPEN DOOR LEGAL — $862,883 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetEast African Community Services — $860,833 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS — $860,832 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetOld Skool Cafe — $860,349 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetFOOD RUNNERS — $860,333 over 6y, 18% of budgetPogo Park — $860,333 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetZeno — $839,152 over 6y, 18% of budgetCASA LATINA — $816,685 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetLA COCINA — $776,041 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH — $684,190 over 6y, 11% of budgetVENTURES — $669,680 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetCONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK — $669,195 over 4y, 11% of budgetINTERCULTURAL CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES — $669,167 over 4y, 22% of budgetStreet Level Health Project — $668,652 over 4y, 13% of budgetGot Green — $668,492 over 5y, 47% of budgetEastSide Arts Alliance — $667,763 over 4y, 17% of budgetPara Los Ninos de Highline — $660,886 over 4y, 17% of budgetArts Corps — $649,280 over 4y, 15% of budgetVillage Community Resource Center — $634,067 over 4y, 46% of budgetSOMALI HEALTH BOARD — $631,833 over 4y, 11% of budgetMindful Life Project — $617,202 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetEDEN YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER — $607,856 over 4y, 10% of budgetMEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWS — $604,187 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC — $598,310 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetFamily Resource Navigators — $592,285 over 4y, 20% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS — $545,852 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA — $513,015 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetSAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER — $502,524 over 4y, 24% of budgetUrban Tilth — $502,255 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT — $502,063 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $501,501 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetFood Empowerment Education Sustainability Team — $495,621 over 4y, 19% of budgetAFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE — $475,650 over 4y, 11% of budgetNorth Bay Housing Coalition — $470,207 over 3y, 19% of budgetSEMBRANDO SENTIDO INC — $448,333 over 1y, 82% of budgetYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $435,393 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetUPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC — $393,258 over 4y, 42% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Native Americans in Philanthropy ↗
  • Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
  • Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE LATINA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Southeast Seattle Education Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Childrens Network ↗
  • Who funds EAST OAKLAND BOXING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Planting Justice ↗
  • Who funds Coalition On Homelessness ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR LEGAL ↗
  • Who funds East African Community Services ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS ↗
  • Who funds Old Skool Cafe ↗
  • Who funds FOOD RUNNERS ↗
  • Who funds Pogo Park ↗
  • Who funds Zeno ↗
  • Who funds CASA LATINA ↗
  • Who funds LA COCINA ↗
  • Who funds MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds VENTURES ↗
  • Who funds CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds INTERCULTURAL CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Street Level Health Project ↗
  • Who funds Got Green ↗
  • Who funds EastSide Arts Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Para Los Ninos de Highline ↗
  • Who funds Arts Corps ↗
  • Who funds Village Community Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds SOMALI HEALTH BOARD ↗
  • Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
  • Who funds EDEN YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWS ↗
  • Who funds DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Resource Navigators ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA ↗

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Medina FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…The Satterberg Founda…School's Out Washingt…East Bay Community Fo…Inatai FoundationThe Morris Stulsaft F…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Credit Unions in the …
The Norcliffe FoundationWA65.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · School's Out Washington · East Bay Community Foundation · Inatai Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Credit Unions in the State of Washington

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 organization Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    86report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps?

    Find your warmest path to Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 179 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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