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Kibble Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $164,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE | $31,500 |
| WASHINGTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $15,750 |
| HIAWATHA PTO | $8,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LONG BOTTOM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $4,500 |
| GREATER MARIETTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $3,750 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY - PARKERSBURG | $3,500 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| OKEMOS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $2,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE OHIO VALLEY | $2,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE4× · 2022–2025 · $167k · revenue +31%
- MCMarietta College8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +34%
- BBRAVA2× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +171% · 64% of their budget
Funded once
- WCWomen's Center of Greater Lansinggraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +362%
- CMCHESTER METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To operate a college of nursing
Defiance College graduates students to lead distinctive lives in their chosen professions through a spirit of service by preparing them to Know, To Understand, To Lead, and To Serve.
Mercy college, a catholic institution with a focus on healthcare, educates and inspires students to lead and to serve in the global community. mercy college is sponsored by bon secours mercy health and primarily focuses on healthcare and…
Oberlin college and conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
Provide higher education to students in undergraduate and graduate programs
Otterbein University is a private, church-related, coeducational university that sponsors traditional and continuing education programs of liberal arts and professional education.
Ursuline college offers holistic education that transforms students for service, leadership and professional excellence by providing undergraduate and graduate programs that foster lifelong learning and personal wisdom in an environment…
Manchester University respects the infinite worth of every individual and graduates persons of ability and conviction who draw upon their education and faith to lead principled, productive, and compassionate lives that improve the human…
Oacc is dedicated to the advancement and implementation of sound policy and initiatives that work to ensure the success of the more than 300,000 community college students in ohio. rooted in the belief that every person should have access…
To educate students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
The college of wooster works to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marietta College and the most unlike its peers is Greater Marietta Community Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 49 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Peoples Bank Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Kibble 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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