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Kibel Foundation at a glance

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Kibel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Kibel Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
2
’18
4
’19
1
’20
1
’21
4
’22
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Education$422kHealth$348kArts & Culture$63kRecreation & Sports$50kAnimals$30kInternational$6kEmployment$5kCommunity Improvement$2k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $60k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $110k → 22%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $6k → 6%Westhampton Rotary Club: $1k → 7%JAMIE KIBEL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $55k → 9%DIDOS & NEROS VETERINARY SCHOLARSHIP: $20k → 16%TRUSTEE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $30k → 17%Society of the riverdanrians Riverdale School: $25k → 28%REED COLLEGE: $15k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $40k → 11%Learning is for Tomorrow (LIFT): $5k → 19%HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $40k → 10%Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $60k → 22%WESTHAMPTON ROTARY CLUB: $1k → 7%RHINEBECK SOCCER LEAGUE: $50k → 9%DIDOS & NEROS VETERINARY SCHOLARSHIP: $10k → 16%TRUSTEE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $30k → 17%Reed College: $15k → 12%University of Maryland: $37k → 11%LEARNING IS FOR TOMORROW (LIFT): $5k → 19%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $20k → 11%LEARNING IS FOR TOMORROW (LIFT): $5k → 19%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $8k → 22%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $20k → 11%LEARNING IS FOR TOMORROW (LIFT): $5k → 19%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 17%LEARNING IS FOR TOMORROW (LIFT): $5k → 19%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 17%CITY LIFE - COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $5k → 19%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering: $100k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $10k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $10k → 17%Birch Whalen Lenox School: $10k → 17%COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $20k → 17%Columbia Presbyterian Hospital: $20k → 17%GUGGENHEIM: $3k → 17%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$581k · 9 repeat orgs$254k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$581k
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+145%

Still filing today

22%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    4× · 2017–2022 · $188k · revenue +88%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
    4× · 2017–2022 · $117k
  • HC
    HAVERFORD COLLEGE
    2× · 2019–2021 · $100k

Funded once

  • MS
    Memorial Sloan Kettering
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • SO
    Society of the riverdanrians Riverdale School
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • BW
    Birch Whalen Lenox School
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
4
Columbia University Press

Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…

Arts & Culture
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
The Rockefeller University

The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…

Education
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
9
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $116,666 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDHAVERFORD COLLEGE: $100,000 · OtherHAVERFORD COLLEGEMemorial Sloan Kettering: $100,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan KetteringCOLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $40,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALDIDOS & NEROS VETERINARY SCHOLARSHIP: $30,000 · OtherDIDOS & NEROS VETERINARY SCHOLARSHIPLEARNING IS FOR TOMORROW (LIFT): $25,000 · OtherSociety of the riverdanrians Riverdale School: $25,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $14,500 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $187,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITA…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $60,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF C…JAMIE KIBEL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · EducationJAMIE KIBEL SCHOL…REED INSTITUTE: $30,000 · EducationREED INSTITUTEMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $60,000 · Arts & CultureRhinebeck Soccer League: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCentral Fund of Israel: $6,000 · InternationalCITY LIFE COMMUNITY BUILDERS LTD: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$471,166Health$187,500Education$145,000Arts & Culture$60,000Recreation & Sports$50,000International$6,000Community Improvement$5,000

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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $187,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJAMIE KIBEL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetRhinebeck Soccer League: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY LIFE COMMUNITY BUILDERS LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds JAMIE KIBEL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Rhinebeck Soccer League ↗
  • Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds CITY LIFE COMMUNITY BUILDERS LTD ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kibel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kibel Foundation. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • City Life Community Builders Ltd: 45% of income from government
  • Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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 19 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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