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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.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$234kHealth$122kHuman Services$97kAnimals$5kScience & Tech$5kYouth Development$3kArts & Culture$2kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
USTA FOUNDATION$500
Individual grant recipient$500
MARINE MAMMAL STRANDING CENTER$200
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $33k → 6%JAPANESE AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $6k → 17%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $28k → 6%CARVER CENTER: $35k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $19k → 6%CARVER CENTER: $35k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $10k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $10k → 9%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

NY
MA
NJ
CA
MO
DE
NC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$410k · 8 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
18

Total granted

$410k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+7%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationScience & TechPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PC
    PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +64%
  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +83%
  • SR
    SOUL RYEDERS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE HUDSON VALLEY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +7%
  • Cornell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +59%
  • JA
    Japanese American Social Services Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +159%
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
8
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Webster University

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.

Education
11
Fordham University

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.

Education
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Hudson Valley; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, 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.

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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $200,925 · OtherFORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOLMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $11,125 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $10,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Other+16 more: $15,550 · Other+16 morePORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $90,005 · Human ServicesPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INCGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $80,375 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCJapanese American Social Services Inc: $6,420 · Human ServicesTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $12,500 · EducationCornell University: $10,000 · EducationSOUL RYEDERS INC: $14,100 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $5,163 · HealthTHE DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND INC: $1,000 · HealthWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $5,000 · Science & TechTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCIRCLE OF GENEROSITY FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $300 · Philanthropy
Other$247,600Human Services$176,800Education$22,500Health$20,263Science & Tech$5,000Arts & Culture$1,000Philanthropy$800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $90,005 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $80,375 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUL RYEDERS INC: $14,100 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJapanese American Social Services Inc: $6,420 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $5,163 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYE YOUTH COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYMAKERS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE OF GENEROSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Mammal Stranding Center: $200 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.

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.

Hamilton Family Chari…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…The Chicago Community…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Hamilton Family Charitable Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ken Cdffoundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ken Cdffoundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Ken Cdffoundation?

Find your warmest path to Ken Cdffoundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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 camps
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