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Kfk Foundation Inc

Provide grants to various organizations that primarily benefit children by improving the quality of their life.

$257k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$920kRecreation & Sports$73kEnvironment$35kArts & Culture$28kHuman Services$18kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$10kYouth Development$6k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $135,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $256,895 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $121,895 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
PEOPLE INC$10,000
DANCEABILITY INC$10,000
CRADLE BEACH CAMP$7,500
SUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC$7,500
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 (FY24–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%PEOPLE INC: $10k → 13%SUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC: $8k → 13%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 4 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -42% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-42%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterYouth 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

  • HH
    HUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $913k · revenue +12%
  • CR
    CHESTNUT RIDGE CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +41%
  • DI
    DANCEABILITY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CM
    Chasing Ms Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -88%
  • TT
    THURMAN THOMAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -78%
  • EM
    EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -42%
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
Boys Run On Inc

The mission of boys run on is to provide a health, wellness, skills development, and environmental awareness program providing the tools, the head and the heart to make our boys successful in life.

Youth Development
2
The Western New York Foundation
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3
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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4
Assist Foundation Inc

Our vision is to be able to provide the joys and lifelong benefits of participating in sports to all youth within Western New York. Assisting youth learn the importance of sportsmanship and teamwork during, and beyond the sport. Making…

Recreation & Sports
5
New York Crohns Foundation
Unclassified
6
The Jump and Ball Foundation
Unclassified
7
Charity for Children Inc

Charity for children, inc. provides support to children in central new york suffering from childhood disorders, diseases and disabilities. such support is offered in the form of medical insurance reimbursement assistance, transportation…

Human Services
8
Niagara County Chapter Nysarc Inc Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara

To ensure that individuals from niagara county who are developmentally disabled or intellectually, physically or functionally limited, have the opportunity to reach their maximum potential, independence and integration into the community.

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9
Kids Under the Radar
Human Services
10
Charleys Kids Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Independent Health Foundation

To improve the health and well being of western new york residents through awareness, prevention, wellness, and other education programs focused on community health priorities.

Health
12
Easter Seals New York Inc

We provide services so that people with disabilities can live, learn, & work in our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradle Beach Inc; the most unlike its peers is Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc. 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

11 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.

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)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $912,625 · OtherHUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INCCRADLE BEACH INC: $72,500 · Recreation & SportsCRADLE BEAC…CHESTNUT RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsCHESTNUT RI…DANCEABILITY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $7,500 · Arts & CultureChasing Ms Foundation Inc: $10,003 · PhilanthropyTHURMAN THOMAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPEOPLE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE: $7,500 · Public Safety & DisasterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST AURORA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$912,625Recreation & Sports$107,500Arts & Culture$27,500Philanthropy$20,003Human Services$17,500Public Safety & Disaster$7,500Youth Development$6,000

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 budgetHUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $912,625 over 7y, 16% of budgetCRADLE BEACH INC: $72,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHESTNUT RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $35,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetDANCEABILITY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetChasing Ms Foundation Inc: $10,003 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHURMAN THOMAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Nfada Charitable Foun…The Peter and Elizabe…The John R Oishei Fou…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Nfada Charitable Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kfk Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kfk Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Kfk Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Kfk Foundation Inc 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 11 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 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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