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Kimsey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $573k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS | $135,000 |
| CAMPBELL HALL EPISCOPAL | $132,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $120,000 |
| FAIR CHANCE | $85,000 |
| SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $50,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION (THE WOODS ACADEMY) | $40,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL | $35,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| LEARNSERVE INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| TRAINING GROUNDS INC | $20,000 |
| YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| SCHOLARCHIPS | $20,000 |
| DANCE ASPEN | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
FAIR CHANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $884k · revenue +33%- SMSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +157%
- MPMCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS6× · 2019–2024 · $233k · revenue +415%
Funded once
- NCNational Children Museumgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +200%
- FWFRESH WIND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2023 · $43k
- KCKENNEDY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…
To inspire inquiring, engaged, knowledgeable and caring secondary students who are multilingual, culturally competent, and committed to proactively creating a socially just and sustainable world.
To develop cross-community knowledge and dialogue on how people, technology and innovation contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth; to inform policy-makers, by producing independent, rigorous metrics and data-based research; to…
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the nonprofit, nonpartisan close up foundation is to empower young people for a lifetime of active citizenship through civic education programs, professional development for educators, and classroom resources.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
LILI partners with public schools and cultural institutions to create and deliver experiential learning opportunities for students in order to increase their self-efficacy, build on their intrinsic motivation, and support their scholarly…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
98 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. 98 of the 148 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HALCYON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds 826DC INC ↗
- Who funds Learnserve International ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Training Grounds Inc ↗
- Who funds National Children Museum ↗
- Who funds FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds So Kids SOAR ↗
- Who funds The Potomac School ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FACES INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOUCHING HEART ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ScholarCHIPS Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds DC POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dance Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ELLINGTON FUND ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE 30 DAY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Weissberg Foundation · Jack Kent Cooke Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Annenberg 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 Kimsey 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.
- Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 64% of income from government
- Rehoboth Art League Inc — 8% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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