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Khaos Foundation Inc at a glance

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Khaos Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$496k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$425k
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 2025.

Education$1.6MReligion$87kScience & Tech$87kHealth$36kYouth Development$35kCommunity Improvement$28kRecreation & Sports$21kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $250k+1 grant · $425k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS$425,000
TRINITY SCHOOL$40,000
TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$933
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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TOXAWAY CHARITIES: $1k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 9 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$1.7M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+32%

Still filing today

56%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentScience & TechInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TW
    The Westminster Schools Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +43%
  • TS
    TRINITY SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $332k · revenue +35%
  • CP
    Captain Planet Foundation Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • NH
    NOVANT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $19k
  • CC
    CITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -16%
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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4
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
9
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science Inc

The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.

Education
10
The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge

The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…

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11
Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education
12
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Westminster Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Johnson Stem Activity Center 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

15 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. 15 of the 24 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Westminster Schools Inc: $1,177,000 · EducationThe Westminster Schools IncTRINITY SCHOOL INC: $332,000 · EducationTRINITY SCHOOL INCPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $133,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+4 more: $33,853 · EducationTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $87,000 · OtherTRINITY PRESB…UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…MIT Enterprise Forum Inc: $28,400 · OtherMIT Enterpris…Captain Planet Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherCaptain Plane…NOVANT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $19,000 · OtherNOVANT HEALTH…Individual grant recipient: $10,500 · Other+5 more: $13,380 · Other+5 moreChastain Park Conservancy Inc: $20,450 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOHNSON STEM ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $2,000 · Science & TechLAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES: $1,000 · Human ServicesSTART WITH ONE GLOBAL: $900 · International
Education$1,676,353Other$233,280Recreation & Sports$20,950Youth Development$10,000Science & Tech$2,000Human Services$1,000International$900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $1,177,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTRINITY SCHOOL INC: $332,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $133,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIT Enterprise Forum Inc: $28,400 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCaptain Planet Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetChastain Park Conservancy Inc: $20,450 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKAY YOW CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $16,920 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON STEM ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $933 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTART WITH ONE GLOBAL: $900 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $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.

The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Khaos Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Khaos Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Khaos Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Khaos 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 24 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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