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Kirkeby 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.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$65kEducation$62kHuman Services$62kReligion$59kAnimals$45kArts & Culture$33kHealth$25kCommunity Improvement$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$300
Median grant
19
States reached
$911k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MID CITY CATS LA$8,000
VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING$7,500
ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD$5,000
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$5,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$4,800
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC$2,300
PRAGERU$2,000
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$1,500
PEPPERDINE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY$1,500
SEA SHEPHARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY$1,500
ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL$1,500
NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY$1,500
FREEDOM FOUNDATION$1,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$1,000
BEL AIR CHURCH$1,000
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 (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%ORPHAN ACRES: $350 → 16%BANDINI FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $150 → 11%ORPHAN ACRES INC: $300 → 16%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $150 → 9%THE COLLEAGUES: $3k → 14%THE PEACE HOUSE: $1k → 5%THE COLLEAGUES: $2k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $500 → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $300 → 17%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $5k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $5k → 14%WESTSIDE CHILDREN CENTER: $3k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $3k → 14%TRUE SIOUX HOPE FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $3k → 14%WESTSIDE CHILDREN CENTER: $3k → 14%WESTSIDE CHILDREN CENTER: $2k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $2k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $1k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 14%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 14%LES AMIES: $3k → 14%LES AMIES: $2k → 14%LES AMIES: $1k → 14%LES AMIES: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150 → 14%VETS WHOLE IN ONE: $1k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $1k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $450 → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $200 → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $150 → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
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NE
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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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$289k · 48 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
65

Total granted

$289k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+26%

Still filing today

71%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther

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

  • VC
    VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +930%
  • AF
    Allies for Every Child Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +85%
  • CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -2%
  • T
    TIME4ART
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -71%

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
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
2
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
3
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
4
United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…

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5
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
6
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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7
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
8
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
11
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…

Animals
12
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesEquine Therapy ProgramsDance Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Affordable Housing Construc…Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%31%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/89
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,889

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.

04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 147 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/81
Grantees still filing
52/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS — $41,600 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTSALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $9,750 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $8,500 · OtherMIDCITYCATSLA INC — $8,000 · OtherVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $12,500 · OtherVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION+82 more — $93,054 · Other+82 moreAllies for Every Child Inc — $24,100 · Human ServicesAllies for Every …CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $15,100 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTIT…THE COLLEAGUES INC — $5,350 · Human ServicesTHE COLLEAGUES IN…LES AMIES INC — $5,250 · Human ServicesLES AMIES INCLANGE FOUNDATION — $3,700 · Human ServicesLANGE FOUNDATIONGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $2,700 · Human Services+13 more — $8,050 · Human Services+13 moreVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $59,500 · Housing & ShelterVENICE COMMUNITY…+1 more — $350 · Housing & ShelterUCLA FOUNDATION — $9,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATI…MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL — $7,500 · EducationMARLBOROUGH S…NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY — $6,500 · EducationNORTH PARK UN…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COL…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVER…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLE…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $3,650 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELL…WEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY — $3,300 · EducationWEILENMANN SC…THE LEAP FOUNDATION INC — $2,900 · EducationTHE LEAP FOUN…+3 more — $1,000 · EducationPACIFIC COAST DOG RESCUE INC — $13,000 · AnimalsWags and Walks — $4,300 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $3,500 · AnimalsLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,050 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,400 · Animals+10 more — $3,900 · AnimalsICA LA — $6,200 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $3,800 · Arts & CultureBALLET WEST — $3,000 · Arts & CultureBALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $7,300 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $5,300 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,900 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,150 · Health+2 more — $400 · Health
Other$173,404Human Services$64,250Housing & Shelter$59,850Education$47,850Animals$30,150Arts & Culture$20,500Health$16,050

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 budgetVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $59,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAllies for Every Child Inc — $24,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $15,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC COAST DOG RESCUE INC — $13,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $7,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH PARK UNIVERSITY — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICA LA — $6,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEAGUES INC — $5,350 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $5,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLES AMIES INC — $5,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWags and Walks — $4,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANGE FOUNDATION — $3,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $3,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY — $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $3,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET WEST — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEAP FOUNDATION INC — $2,900 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace House Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOME DOG LA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BANDINI FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEl Segundo Bobby Sox dba El Segundo Girls Softball — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN ACRES INC — $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $550 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Surendra and Karen Gu…Bradford Family Found…Seckinger Foundation …Farrell Family Founda…The Annenberg Foundat…Gat Family FoundationJewish Community Foun…California Community …Butchkie Foundation I…Paula Knickerbocker F…Joyce a Ward Foundati…Amg Charitable Gift F…
Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc FoundationMO17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Farrell Family Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gat Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Butchkie Foundation Inc · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift 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 Kirkeby 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 147 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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