· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY - PARKERSBURG | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Peoples Bank Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kibble Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kibble Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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