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Kin 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ITS FROM THE SOLE INC. | $47,538 |
| PRECIOUS DREAMS FOUNDATION | $36,800 |
| REWRITE CORPORATION | $24,000 |
| THE FORTUNE SOCIETY, INC. | $16,000 |
| MT ARARAT BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| VICTOR CRUZ FOUNDATION INC. | $10,000 |
| THE WORD IN PRAYER EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY | $7,500 |
| LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER IN | $7,500 |
| THE LOWER EASTSIDE GIRLS CLUB | $7,000 |
| COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP | $6,400 |
| MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ITS FROM THE SOLE INC. | $5,000 |
| STONYBROOK UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE | $3,102 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 29 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k 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
- IFITS FROM THE SOLE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $87k · revenue -20% · 73% of their budget
- TLTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue -48%
- CHCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- QCQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +27%
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
CHILDREN OF PROMISE NYCone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +5%
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.
Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…
We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
To create a better future for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) youth and adults through a partnership of parents, allies, and lgbtq+ people. (see schedule o for detail)
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
The organization is dedicated to combining education and advocacy to expand opportunities for children and families in order to strengthen the voice of the latino community based on the belief that the most effective way to support latino…
The mission of girls inc. of new york city is to advocate for and improve the lives of underserved girls and youth, ages 6 to 21+, in the five boroughs. we pursue this mission by providing research-based educational programs in the areas…
The partnership for after school education is a child-focused organization that promotes and supports quality after school programs, particularly those serving young people from underserved communities. the partnership for after school…
Bcs partners with people to overcome obstacles on their pathway toward self-determination (see schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children of Promise Nyc and the most unlike its peers is Parent Teacher Association of P S 84 the Jose De Diego School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 45 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 ITS FROM THE SOLE INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REWRITE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VICTOR CRUZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC ↗
- Who funds THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORD IN PRAYER EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds MISA HYLTON FASHION ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END RESIDENCES HDFC INC DBA HOMEWARD NYC ↗
- Who funds ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ONE LOVE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE WOMEN OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Ministry of Hope Lesotho Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds RILEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MOUNT VERNON 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: American Express Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kin 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.
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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