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Key Lime 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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$255kCivil Rights$205kEnvironment$170kCrime & Legal$160kInternational$65kPhilanthropy$60kEducation$51kPublic Benefit$20k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alliance for Global Justice$30,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Boston Health Care for the Homeless: $25k → 16%Boston Health Care for the Homeless: $25k → 16%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $200k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND: $20k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$546k · 8 repeat orgs$380k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$546k
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-25%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEnvironmentEducationCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +62%
  • TP
    THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $45k · revenue +28%
  • WF
    WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • Social Finance Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -3%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +1%
  • TC
    THOUSAND CURRENTS
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
2
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

3
Transform Finance Inc

To align capital with social justice values, and help activists and community leaders access capital as a tool for transformative social change. we empower community leaders to shape how capital flows affect them - both in terms of holding…

Community Improvement
4
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc

Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.

Philanthropy
5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

7
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
8
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
9
Moral Compass Federation Inc

Moral compass federation facilitates collaboration among multiple veteran-led nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses who came together during the fall of kabul, afghanistan to evacuate and resettle afghan allies who were in…

Public Benefit
10
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
11
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy
12
United States Energy Foundation

The united states energy foundation's mission is to secure a clean and equitable energy future to tackle the climate crisis.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunrise Movement Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Social Finance Inc — $200,000 · Human ServicesSocial Finance IncBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELE…Massachusetts Bail Fund — $40,000 · Human ServicesMassachusetts Bail FundAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $195,000 · InternationalAlliance for Global Justice C…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $35,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA …THOUSAND CURRENTS — $30,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTSSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $125,000 · EnvironmentSUNRISE MOVEMENT …EARTHJUSTICE — $12,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICESIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $12,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUND…BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC — $50,000 · Crime & LegalBROOKLYN …THE BAIL PROJECT INC — $35,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BAIL …POSSE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherSUNRISE MOVEMENT — $20,000 · OtherRobert F Kennedy Human Rights — $10,000 · OtherNEW YORK LEGAL AID — $10,000 · OtherNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $5,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION — $40,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · EducationMOVEMENT VOTER FUND — $20,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$290,000International$260,000Environment$150,000Crime & Legal$85,000Other$70,000Philanthropy$60,000Education$51,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSocial Finance Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $195,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $125,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC — $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Bail Fund — $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT VOTER FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Key Lime Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Social Finance Inc12% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc8% of income from government
  • Needham Community Council Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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