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Kerith Foundation

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.

$380k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$7.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Kerith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$380k20%
FY202421$374k10%
FY202324$409k17%
FY202218$373k22%
FY202130$316k33%
FY202016$363k38%
FY201922$160k14%
FY201827$136k33%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MReligion$818kHousing & Shelter$90kHealth$80kFood & Nutrition$58kArts & Culture$54kCommunity Improvement$46kHuman Services$31kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
DE
NM
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Delaware$671,15090%
University of Utah$225,5203n/a
OSA Foundation Inc$70,00031%
Drexel University$50,00010%
Sunday Breakfast Mission$39,50090%
Food Bank of Delaware Inc$36,50090%
Europe Campus Ministry$23,00041%
China Outreach Ministriesinc$22,30070%
Meals on Wheels Delaware Inc$21,00061%
Teachbeyond Inc$18,4006n/a
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Kerith Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Delaware$671,15090%
University of Utah$225,5203n/a
OSA Foundation Inc$70,00031%
Drexel University$50,00010%
Sunday Breakfast Mission$39,50090%
Food Bank of Delaware Inc$36,50090%
Europe Campus Ministry$23,00041%
China Outreach Ministriesinc$22,30070%
Meals on Wheels Delaware Inc$21,00061%
Teachbeyond Inc$18,4006n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$18,00070%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$17,0005n/a
Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society$16,5005n/a
Village Gospel Mission$15,00041%
The Salvation Army$13,5005n/a
Mx Servelead International$12,00043%
The Independence School Inc$12,00080%
Harvest USA$8,30060%
InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA$8,00020%
Touch Life Mission Dr Gordon S Lee$7,00031%
Developing Leaders Ministries$6,00023%
Overseas Campus Ministries Inc$4,00040%
Friends of Grace$3,00010%
Christian Community Church of the Heights$2,4001n/a
Delaware Technology Park Inc$2,30010%
Center for Creative Arts Inc$2,00020%
Family Keepers Inc$2,00040%
Bibleproject$1,00010%
Dallas Theological Seminary$1,00010%
Tampa Bay Watch Inc$50010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kerith Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Delaware: $671,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOSA Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDrexel University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission: $39,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Delaware Inc: $36,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEurope Campus Ministry: $23,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetChina Outreach Ministriesinc: $22,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels Delaware Inc: $21,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVillage Gospel Mission: $15,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMx Servelead International: $12,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetThe Independence School Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHarvest USA: $8,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTouch Life Mission Dr Gordon S Lee: $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDeveloping Leaders Ministries: $6,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetOverseas Campus Ministries Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Grace: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDelaware Technology Park Inc: $2,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Creative Arts Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Keepers Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBibleproject: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTampa Bay Watch Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 Hsieh Christian FoundationWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hsieh Christian Foundation · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Kerith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kerith Foundation 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.

About Kerith Foundation

How much does Kerith Foundation give?
Kerith Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $379,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kerith Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Religion (31%), Housing & Shelter (3%).
Who are Kerith Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Delaware ($671k), University of Utah ($226k), OSA Foundation Inc ($70k).
Does Kerith Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kerith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kerith Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hsieh Christian Foundation, Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Kerith Foundation based?
Kerith Foundation is based in DE.

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 66 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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