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Kids Connect Charitable Fund

Supporting grants to medical facilities and institutions for research on epilepsy and metabolic disorders and grants to institutions for education.

$659k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$6.1MInternational$2.9MPhilanthropy$1.8MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$1.0MReligion$552kRecreation & Sports$259kFood & Nutrition$250kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $628,699 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $658,699 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$36,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM$300,000
YAD CHAZAKA CORP$117,905
SCHOOLING FOR LIFE$62,567
LIVE2450 INC$43,000
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC$36,000
THE WELL CHURCH$24,990
THE NETANYA FOUNDATION INC$22,000
READERS ARE LEADERS$10,000
EMANUAL JACKSON SR PROJECT INC$10,000
REASON FOUNDATION$2,237
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 (FY17–21, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TAG FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 20%TAG FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 20%TAG FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: $46k → 20%TAG FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: $4k → 20%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER DENVER: $36k → 12%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

WA
WI
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.8M · 18 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
32

Total granted

$6.8M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+47%

Still filing today

83%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyInternationalSocial ScienceOther

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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +4%
  • UE
    UAB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $900k · revenue +45%
  • YC
    YAD CHAZAKA CORP
    6× · 2019–2024 · $598k · revenue +235% · 82% of their budget

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FACES
    one grant, 2022 · $4.0M · revenue -92% · 65% of their budget
  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epilepsy Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Israel Lacrosse Association 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 backsteadyCancer Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…School District FoundationsYouth Development CentersElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Foundations
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,510

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

46 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. 46 of the 55 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF FACES — $4,000,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF FACES+10 more — $324,340 · Health+10 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATI…YAD CHAZAKA CORP — $597,662 · PhilanthropyYAD CHAZAKA CORPJEWISHColorado — $442,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColoradoPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $304,421 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMEN…LIVE2540 INC — $145,000 · PhilanthropyLIVE2540 INC+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $1,750,000 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHO…WELL MINISTRY — $172,459 · OtherWELL MINISTRYTHE NETANYA FOUNDATION INC — $138,285 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $250,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESTAG FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT — $149,998 · OtherREADERS ARE LEADERS — $120,000 · Other+19 more — $529,337 · Other+19 moreThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $2,036,000 · InternationalThe American Jewi…JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $180,000 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR…+1 more — $50,000 · InternationalUAB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $900,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC — $125,000 · EducationSCHOOLING FOR LIFE — $62,567 · Education+4 more — $47,237 · EducationDENVER ART MUSEUM — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC — $248,750 · Recreation & SportsISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$4,324,340Philanthropy$2,499,083Other$3,110,079International$2,266,000Education$1,134,804Arts & Culture$1,000,000Recreation & Sports$258,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF FACES — $4,000,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $2,036,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUAB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $900,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetYAD CHAZAKA CORP — $597,662 over 6y, 82% of budgetJEWISHColorado — $442,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $304,421 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC — $248,750 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $180,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTAG FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT — $149,998 over 4y, 12% of budgetLIVE2540 INC — $145,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE NETANYA FOUNDATION INC — $138,285 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREADERS ARE LEADERS — $120,000 over 8y, 35% of budgetTHE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION — $71,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSCHOOLING FOR LIFE — $62,567 over 1y, 29% of budgetAtlas Economic Research Foundation — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR STATE OF AMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMANUEL JACKSON SENIOR PROJECT INC — $41,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER — $36,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRenown Health Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLenox Hill Hospital — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTHCARE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $6,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC — $5,337 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $2,237 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Sterling Donor Ad…Millennium Evergreen …Youth Initiative FundCentury Vision Benefi…Schooling for LifeJewish Communal FundAmerican Cancer Socie…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…AbbVie FoundationNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…
The Sterling Donor Advised FundVA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sterling Donor Advised Fund · Millennium Evergreen Charitable Fund · Youth Initiative Fund · Century Vision Benefit Fund · Schooling for Life · Jewish Communal Fund · American Cancer Society Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Kids Connect Charitable Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation New England — 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kids Connect Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Kids Connect Charitable Fund 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 55 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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