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Kershaw Foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$2.5MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$909kPhilanthropy$774kYouth Development$544kReligion$410kCrime & Legal$390kFood & Nutrition$347kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $279k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.7M
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARISE AFRICA$150,100
HEAVEN SOUTH$130,000
KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE$108,800
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
CONCENTRATION$100,000
HARDBALL HEROS INC$100,000
THE HUMAN IMPACT$100,000
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION$100,000
MERCY STREET$75,000
AIRBOURNE LIFELINE FOUNDATION$75,000
DISTINCTLY HIS MINISTRIES$75,000
INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES$60,000
THE UCLA MEDICAL FOUNDATION$50,000
BABY 2 BABY$50,000
CASA DEL LAGO$50,000
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 (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THORN: $10k → 17%BIH LEAGUE IMPACT: $5k → 11%THE STORE: $30k → 14%THORN: $5k → 17%THE STORE: $15k → 14%HEAVEN SOUTH: $130k → 14%HEAVEN SOUTH: $30k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $60k → 14%HEAVEN SOUTH: $30k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $50k → 14%HEAVEN SOUTH: $15k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $50k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $50k → 14%OUR CALLING: $25k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $25k → 14%OUR CALLING: $5k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $16k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $15k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $60k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $60k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%THE HUMAN IMPACT: $100k → 14%THE HUMAN IMPACT: $5k → 14%SKETCHERS FDN: $10k → 14%OUR CALLING: $10k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $25k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%CARE DALLAS: $11k → 14%CARE DALLAS: $10k → 14%CONNECTING POINT PARK CITIES: $5k → 14%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

WA
IL
NY
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
NM
TN
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 54 repeat orgs$821k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
33

Total granted

$7.1M
$464k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+5%

Still filing today

69%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • KC
    KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +37%
  • TL
    THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $510k · revenue +83%
  • AA
    ARISE AFRICA INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $342k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TF
    TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND - CHARLES ROSE PARK
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +56%
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
3
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
4
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
5
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
6
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
7
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
8
Kingdom Advisors Inc

Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…

Religion
9
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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10
Alliance for Transformational Ministry

Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.

Religion
11
Firelight Foundation

Firelight supports catalytic community-based organizations in eastern and southern africa that work with their own communities to realize shared visions of sustainable change and true potential for children and youth.

International
12
The Bair Foundation of Texas

To provide services to children, youth, and families along with a child-placing agency. to provide therapeutic foster care.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is To Be Like Me; the most unlike its peers is The Stallings Foundation. 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

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 101 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
42/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $380,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSIONHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $215,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHTHE UCLA MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherTHE UCLA MEDICAL FOUNDATIONIJM: $200,000 · OtherIJMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $150,000 · OtherBABY2BABY: $150,000 · OtherTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $300,000 · OtherTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE+56 more: $1,417,039 · Other+56 moreKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $1,341,209 · PhilanthropyKERSHAW'S CHALLENGEJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATIO…MD Anderson Foundation: $150,000 · PhilanthropyMD Anderson Foundation+5 more: $128,500 · Philanthropy+5 moreTHE STORE INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE STORE INCMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $235,000 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIAH…INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $220,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMI…THE HUMAN IMPACT: $105,304 · Human ServicesTHE HUMAN IMPAC…BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INC: $40,449 · Human Services+9 more: $175,095 · Human Services+9 moreARISE AFRICA INC: $342,250 · InternationalARISE AFR…For the Nations Refugee Outreach: $120,000 · InternationalFor the N…Alliance for Children Everywhere: $100,000 · InternationalAlliance …ACTION IN AFRICA INC: $80,000 · InternationalACTION IN…LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $25,000 · International+1 more: $20,000 · InternationalMERCY STREET: $320,000 · Youth DevelopmentDISTINCTLY HIS MINISTRIES: $214,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $510,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $225,000 · HealthAIRBORNE LIFELINE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthCANCER FOR COLLEGE: $26,080 · Health+2 more: $11,000 · Health
Other$3,012,039Philanthropy$1,769,709Human Services$1,075,848International$687,250Youth Development$544,000Recreation & Sports$510,000Health$412,080

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 budgetKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $1,341,209 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $510,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetARISE AFRICA INC: $342,250 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetMERCY STREET: $320,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $300,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE STORE INC: $250,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $235,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $220,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetDISTINCTLY HIS MINISTRIES: $214,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetAIRBORNE LIFELINE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetMD Anderson Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBABY2BABY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFor the Nations Refugee Outreach: $120,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HUMAN IMPACT: $105,304 over 2y, 19% of budgetAlliance for Children Everywhere: $100,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetESPERANZA MINISTRIES: $100,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetACTION IN AFRICA INC: $80,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINSPIRE SPACES INSPIRE STUDENTS: $50,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $40,449 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTO BE LIKE ME: $33,300 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $31,325 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JORDAN SPIETH FAMILY FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTIN TURNER FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCANCER FOR COLLEGE: $26,080 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $25,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBig League Impact Inc: $25,175 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetC A R E DALLAS INC: $20,620 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Christian Growth Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUDC FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHORN: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Family Place: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
  • Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARISE AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY STREET ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE STORE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds DISTINCTLY HIS MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AIRBORNE LIFELINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MD Anderson Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
  • Who funds For the Nations Refugee Outreach ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMAN IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for Children Everywhere ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANZA MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ACTION IN AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRE SPACES INSPIRE STUDENTS ↗
  • Who funds THE STALLINGS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗

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 Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…The Rees-Jones Founda…Denman Family Foundat…Prairie Creek Partner…Texas Instruments Fou…Dallas Alumnae Associ…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…McCamey Foundation IncElizabeth Toon Charit…Hillcrest FoundationServant Foundation
The Dallas FoundationTX40.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Denman Family Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Dallas Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · McCamey Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Toon Charities · Hillcrest Foundation · Servant 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kershaw Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kershaw Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    11report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kershaw Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kershaw 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.

    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 101 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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