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Killheffer Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AYUDA$6,118
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT$5,000
CITY HARVEST$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Earth; 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 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. 13 of the 14 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $15,000 over 3y, 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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