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Kid Rock Foundation

The KID ROCK FOUNDATION is organized to support children's and veterans' charities and to encourage music education and performance through scholarships.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$143kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kEmployment$100kHuman Services$99kArts & Culture$96kFood & Nutrition$80kPublic Benefit$42kRecreation & Sports$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $163k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$989k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOU WERE WORTH IT FOUNDATION$60,790
THE SENTINEL FOUNDATION$52,500
FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL ADVANCEMENT & BREAKTHROUGHS$50,000
AMERICA'S FUTURE INC$32,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$20,000
ST MARY SCHOOL$20,000
THE CHRISTIAN ANTHONY FOUNDATION$15,582
GREEN BERET FOUNDATION$10,000
RISING STAR FOUNDATION$10,000
NF FORWARD$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%OPERATION TRIAGE: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%THE SENTINEL FOUNDATION: $53k → 23%OPERATION TRIAGE: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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GA
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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Military Family Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to provide timely financial assistance to deployed and currently serving minnesota military personnel and their families, who have a financial crisis that is not supported by existing state or federal…

Philanthropy
2
Families of the Wounded Fund Inc

Families of the wounded fund, inc (fotwf) provides financial assistance to families of service members or us agents who were wounded in combat or injured in support of combat operations while the wounded receive treatment at various…

Human Services
3
Soteria Precision Medicine Foundation Inc

Soteria Precision Medicine Foundation is dedicated to empowering patients and physicians with personalized precision medicine solutions.

Health
4
Gary Sinise Foundation

At the gary sinise foundation, we support our nation's heroes, our veterans, military, those suffering from the invisible wounds of war, first responders, their families, and the families of fallen heroes. (continued on schedule o)we do…

Philanthropy
5
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc

Find, fund, shape, and accelerate equitable solutions that help our impacted veterans, service members, their families, and their caregivers thrive.

Health
6
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
7
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
8
Troops First Foundation Incorporated

To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…

Public Benefit
9
Vitalant Foundation

Vitalant foundation secures and stewards charitable gifts to support vitalant's mission to unite blood and biologics donors, talent and innovation to save and improve lives.

Health
10
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
11
Feed Our Veterans

Feed our vets works to feed our nations hungry and homeless veterans and their family members. we are fighting veteran hunger, state by state, town by town.

Food & Nutrition
12
Medical Debt Resolution Inc

The mission of the organization is to end medical debt. (continued on schedule o)

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kali's Cure for Paralysis 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Government Accountability R…Community FoundationsUnited Way FederationsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Youth Ice Hockey ProgramsCancer Support OrganizationsClassical Music EnsemblesVeteran Support ServicesCommunity Health CentersFood Pantries & Assistance
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%17%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
9%
3/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,530

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE 30 DAY FUND INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE 30 DAY FUND INCYOU WERE WORTH IT FOUNDATION — $60,790 · OtherYOU WERE WORTH IT FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL ADVANCEMENT AND BREAKTHROUGHS INC — $50,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL ADVANCEMENT AND BREAKTHROUGHS…AMERICAS FUTURE INC — $32,000 · OtherAMERICAS FUTURE INCFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN — $25,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGANST MARY CATHEDRAL PARISH — $20,000 · OtherTHE CHRISTIAN ANTHONY FOUNDATION — $15,582 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $20,000 · OtherILITCH CHARITIES INC — $15,000 · Other+4 more — $40,000 · Other+4 moreSentinel Foundation — $52,500 · Human ServicesSentinel FoundationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National R…Operation Triage — $16,000 · Human ServicesOperation TriageGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET FOUNDAT…OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY — $10,000 · Human ServicesOPEN HANDS FOOD PAN…TIGER WOODS CHARITY EVENT CORP — $40,000 · PhilanthropyTIGER WOODS C…UNITED CHARITABLE — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED CHARIT…CORPORAL CHRISTOPHER KELLY WILLIS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCORPORAL CHRI…Kali's Cure For Paralysis Foundation Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyKali's Cure F…UNITED WAY OF HUMPHREYS COUNTY — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…VETSAID INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyVETSAID INCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY…Vanderbilt University Medical Center — $35,000 · HealthVanderbilt …THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · HealthTHE BRETT B…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHI…MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · HealthMUSIC HEALT…NFX — $7,500 · HealthNFXTOMAHAWK CHARITABLE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $10,000 · Food & NutritionNotes For Notes Inc — $15,000 · Arts & CultureLIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$378,372Human Services$138,500Philanthropy$100,000Health$82,500Public Safety & Disaster$60,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Arts & Culture$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE 30 DAY FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOMAHAWK CHARITABLE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSentinel Foundation — $52,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIGER WOODS CHARITY EVENT CORP — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAS FUTURE INC — $32,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNotes For Notes Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORAL CHRISTOPHER KELLY WILLIS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetKali's Cure For Paralysis Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HUMPHREYS COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetVETSAID INC — $10,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNFX — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN15.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · Pledgeling Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Kid Rock 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kid Rock Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kid Rock Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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