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Key Lime Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunrise Movement Education Fund; 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 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. 18 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 …SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUND…EARTHJUSTICE: $12,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEBROOKLYN 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMOVEMENT VOTER FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $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
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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Needham Community Council Inc: 2% 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, 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.

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 21 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home