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Ken Cdffoundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| CARVER CENTER | $35,005 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $12,500 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $10,125 |
| SOUL RYEDERS INC | $10,000 |
| NY BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| USTA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MARINE MAMMAL STRANDING CENTER | $200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PCPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +64%
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +83%
- SRSOUL RYEDERS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE HUDSON VALLEYone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +7%
Cornell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +59%- JAJapanese American Social Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +159%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Hudson Valley and the most unlike its peers is Marine Mammal Stranding Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL RYEDERS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE HUDSON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Japanese American Social Services Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds RYE YOUTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WAYMAKERS ↗
- Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF GENEROSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammal Stranding Center ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hamilton Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Cdffoundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Marine Mammal Stranding Center — 10% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
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.
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