· Private foundation
Kenneth E Boring Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of KENNETH E BORING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA | $35,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| DALTON STATE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $15,000 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MANY HOPES | $11,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CHI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $7,500 |
| ON POINT | $5,500 |
| WOODWARD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| PEACHTREE ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHRUCH | $5,000 |
| WHITFIELD-MURRAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| AGAPE YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER | $5,000 |
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, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Kenneth E Boring Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- MHMANY HOPES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +269%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA7× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +23%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- GLGEORGIA-ALABAMA LAND TRUST INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +167%
Vanderbilt Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +74%- LLLEAUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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Drew charter school educates, nurtures and empowers all students to achieve their full potential as part of an exemplary, innovative, and equity-centered community.
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Children's services
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
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We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitfield Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Keep Dalton Whitfield Clean & Beautiful Inc. 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.
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 58 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 59 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 Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds MANY HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ON POINT ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds WHITFIELD-MURRAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ERLANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OSCAR N JONAS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHATTANOOGA BALLET ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA-ALABAMA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Arts Guild Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DALTON DANCE COMPANY THE DALTON ARTS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FixGeorgiaPets Inc ↗
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: The Anna Sue and Bob Shaw Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Helen and Harry Saul Foundation · Hamico Inc · White Family Foundation Inc · The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · The Jack and Aggie Bandy Foundation Inc · Mohawk Carpet Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga 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 Kenneth E Boring Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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.