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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.

$945k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.1MEducation$1.0MHealth$829kArts & Culture$689kYouth Development$352kSocial Science$167kReligion$162kCommunity Improvement$129kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $573k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS$135,000
CAMPBELL HALL EPISCOPAL$132,800
Individual grant recipient$120,000
FAIR CHANCE$85,000
LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER$50,000
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HISPANIC 100 FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%BAY AGING: $1k → 12%LENNOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $5k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $5k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $3k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $3k → 8%DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $900 → 14%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $3k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $3k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $3k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $3k → 8%FAIR CHANCE: $85k → 8%FAIR CHANCE: $75k → 8%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $10k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $75k → 8%TOUCHING HEART: $17k → 6%TOUCHING HEART: $15k → 6%TOUCHING HEART: $8k → 6%FAIR CHANCE: $174k → 14%TOUCHING HEART: $8k → 6%FAIR CHANCE: $150k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $150k → 14%TOUCHING HEART: $5k → 6%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 14%STREET SENSE MEDIA: $10k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $100k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $75k → 14%STREET SENSE MEDIA: $5k → 14%STREET SENSE: $2k → 14%STREET SENSE: $174 → 14%GOOD GROUND GOOD LIFE INC: $5k → 14%GOOD GROUND GOOD LIFE INC: $1k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $25k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $12k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
LA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 65 repeat orgs$630k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
69

Total granted

$4.9M
$471k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-1%

Still filing today

72%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FAIR CHANCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $884k · revenue +33%
  • SM
    SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +157%
  • MP
    MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $233k · revenue +415%

Funded once

  • NC
    National Children Museumgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +156%
  • FW
    FRESH WIND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $43k
  • KC
    KENNEDY CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
The George Washington University

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…

Education
2
Institute for Experiential Learning Inc

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…

Education
3
Global Kids Inc

Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.

Youth Development
4
Meridian International Center

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…

International
5
District of Columbia International School

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.

Education
6
Portulans Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

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.

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9
Close Up Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education
11
The Peak School

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…

Education
12
Live It Learn It

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 148 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/98
Grantees still filing
52/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $581,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIFE WITH CANCER: $166,000 · OtherLIFE WITH CANCERCAMPBELL HALL -EPISCOPAL-: $140,982 · OtherCAMPBELL HALL -EPISCOPAL-HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $130,000 · OtherHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INCLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $115,000 · OtherLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATIONNational Children Museum: $100,000 · OtherTraining Grounds Inc: $110,000 · Other+86 more: $788,274 · Other+86 moreFAIR CHANCE: $883,800 · Human ServicesFAIR CHANCEFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $87,000 · Human ServicesFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INCTOUCHING HEART: $51,700 · Human Services+10 more: $81,424 · Human Services+10 moreLearnserve International: $200,000 · EducationLearnserve In…WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $177,500 · EducationWASHINGTON IN…The Potomac School: $60,200 · EducationThe Potomac S…ScholarCHIPS Inc: $40,000 · EducationScholarCHIPS …JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationJAMES MADISON…MILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION INC: $36,500 · EducationMILITARY BOWL…+11 more: $87,850 · Education+11 moreSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $350,000 · HealthSIBLEY MEMOR…THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $120,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATI…BRIGHT FACES INC: $60,000 · HealthBRIGHT FACES…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $54,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI…+5 more: $24,500 · HealthMCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS: $232,500 · Arts & CultureMCLEAN PROJ…HALCYON HOUSE: $230,300 · Arts & CultureHALCYON HOU…Dance Initiative Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDance Initi…MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $18,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $28,500 · Arts & Culture826DC INC: $209,829 · Youth DevelopmentSo Kids SOAR: $67,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: $23,500 · Youth DevelopmentCritical Exposure Inc: $16,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $167,000 · Social Science
Other$2,131,356Human Services$1,103,924Education$642,050Health$608,500Arts & Culture$539,800Youth Development$359,329Social Science$167,000

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 budgetFAIR CHANCE: $883,800 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS: $232,500 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetHALCYON HOUSE: $230,300 over 5y, 4.2% of budget826DC INC: $209,829 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetLearnserve International: $200,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetWASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $177,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $167,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $130,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTraining Grounds Inc: $110,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetNational Children Museum: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $87,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSo Kids SOAR: $67,500 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetThe Potomac School: $60,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT FACES INC: $60,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $54,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOUCHING HEART: $51,700 over 5y, 20% of budgetLATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOME INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetScholarCHIPS Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION INC: $36,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetDC POLICY CENTER: $30,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDance Initiative Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE ELLINGTON FUND: $26,049 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE 30 DAY FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $25,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: $23,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDELAWARE WILD LANDS INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHANCE FOR LIFE: $18,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetStreet Sense Inc: $17,324 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCritical Exposure Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDANCEASPEN: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARTS IN THE ARMED FORCES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHunter Brooks Watson Memorial Fund: $15,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAnimal Welfare League of Arlington: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBULLIS SCHOOL: $13,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND: $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEDUCATION FORWARD DC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPORTSMOM FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetMEN CAN STOP RAPE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHESS CHALLENGE IN DC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

  • 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 LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF THE WOODS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ScholarCHIPS Inc ↗
  • Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DC POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Dance Initiative Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ELLINGTON FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE 30 DAY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark Charitable Foun…Dimick Foundation Joh…Weissberg FoundationJack Kent Cooke Found…United Way of the Nat…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Clark-Winchcole Found…Brown Advisory Charit…The Jewish Federation…The Annenberg Foundat…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC42.3× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kimsey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kimsey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kimsey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kimsey 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 148 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home