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Killheffer Charitable Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$6k
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 FY20172022.

Food & Nutrition$50kHealth$25kEnvironment$25kCommunity Improvement$15kCrime & Legal$6k
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AYUDA$6,118
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
CITY HARVEST$5,000
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 (FY22–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AYUDA: $6k → 14%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.

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$80k · 7 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$80k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+50%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
Food & NutritionEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CITY HARVEST INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +3%
  • HISPANIC FEDERATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +187%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE EARTHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +89%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +50%
  • TC
    The Climate Mobilization
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -88%

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
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
5
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
6
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
7
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
8
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Climateworks Foundation

Climateworks foundation's mission is to connect philanthropy, grantees, and strategic partners to build and deliver high-impact climate solutions that benefit all people.

Science & Tech
11
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Earth and the most unlike its peers is The Climate Mobilization. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY HARVEST INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INCCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELSCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCSOME INC — $15,000 · OtherSOME INCENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $5,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERG…PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $5,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EAR…The Climate Mobilization — $5,000 · EnvironmentThe Climate Mobili…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES …HISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDER…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $7,500 · HealthST JUDE CHI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $7,500 · PhilanthropyAYUDA INC — $6,118 · Human Services
Food & Nutrition$35,000Other$25,000Environment$20,000Community Improvement$15,000Health$12,500Philanthropy$7,500Human Services$6,118

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 budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAYUDA INC — $6,118 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Climate Mobilization — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Killheffer Charitable 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Killheffer Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Killheffer Charitable 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 14 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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