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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.

$564k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$6.1MInternational$2.9MPhilanthropy$1.8MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$1.0MReligion$552kRecreation & Sports$259kFood & Nutrition$250kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $534,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $564,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM$300,000
YAD CHAZAKA CORP$62,605
CATO INSTITUTE$50,000
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC$30,000
EMANUAL JACKSON SR PROJECT INC$20,000
LIVE2450 INC$15,000
THE WELL CHURCH$14,545
NYU FACES$12,500
READERS ARE LEADERS$10,000
FRIENDS OF FACES$7,500
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH$7,000
LOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RDG PRGM$5,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 21 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
31

Total granted

$11M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+31%

Still filing today

86%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentSocial SciencePhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +4%
  • UE
    UAB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +23%
  • YC
    YAD CHAZAKA CORP
    7× · 2019–2025 · $660k · revenue +235% · 82% of their budget

Funded once

  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +7%
  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $180k · revenue +58%
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
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
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
6
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
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
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

The feinstein institute for medical research ("the institute") is the research branch of northwell health ("northwell"). through its affiliation with northwell, the institute's mission is to bridge the gap between biomedical research and…

Health
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epilepsy Foundation of America; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
38/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF FACES: $4,007,500 · HealthFRIENDS OF FACES+10 more: $336,840 · Health+10 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATI…YAD CHAZAKA CORP: $660,267 · PhilanthropyYAD CHAZAKA CORPJEWISHColorado: $442,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColoradoPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $304,421 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMEN…LIVE2540 INC: $160,000 · PhilanthropyLIVE2540 INC+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1,750,000 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHO…WELL MINISTRY: $187,004 · OtherWELL MINISTRYTHE NETANYA FOUNDATION INC: $138,285 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $250,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESREADERS ARE LEADERS: $130,000 · OtherTAG FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: $149,998 · Other+21 more: $611,337 · Other+21 moreThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,036,000 · InternationalThe American Jew…JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $180,000 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FO…+1 more: $50,000 · InternationalUAB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 · EducationUAB EDUCAT…ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $125,000 · EducationST MARK'S …SCHOOLING FOR LIFE: $62,567 · Education+4 more: $47,237 · EducationDENVER ART MUSEUM: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $278,750 · Recreation & SportsISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$4,344,340Philanthropy$2,576,688Other$3,216,624International$2,266,000Education$1,434,804Arts & Culture$1,000,000Recreation & Sports$288,750

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 budgetFRIENDS OF FACES: $4,007,500 over 2y, 65% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,036,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUAB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 over 4y, 3.2% 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 budgetYAD CHAZAKA CORP: $660,267 over 7y, 82% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $442,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $304,421 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $278,750 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $180,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIVE2540 INC: $160,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTAG FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: $149,998 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE NETANYA FOUNDATION INC: $138,285 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetREADERS ARE LEADERS: $130,000 over 9y, 35% 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 budgetTHE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION: $71,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $67,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOLING FOR LIFE: $62,567 over 1y, 29% of budgetEMANUEL JACKSON SENIOR PROJECT INC: $61,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetAtlas Economic Research Foundation: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR STATE OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER: $36,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRenown Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS 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 budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTHCARE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetLOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $2,237 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kids Connect Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kids Connect Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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