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Kirmar 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.

$456k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$381k
Largest
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 2024.

Animals$1.1MPhilanthropy$388kEducation$112kArts & Culture$85kEmployment$27kInternational$25kRecreation & Sports$20kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
  • $250k+1 grant · $381k
$60,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUCKY DOG REFUGE$381,075
THE AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER$60,000
JDRF$10,000
INSPIRICA INC$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DEVRY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-KIRMAR FUND: $152k → 9%PROJECT14 GLOBAL MISSIONS: $25k → 8%ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $60k → 8%PACE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-KIRMAR FUND: $126k → 9%ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $53k → 8%PACE UNIVERSITY: $215 → 17%FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-KIRMAR FUND: $110k → 9%ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $51k → 8%HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL: $79k → 17%THE AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER: $60k → 9%ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $39k → 8%THE AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $2k → 8%MILL RIVER PARK COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 9%ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $1k → 8%MILL RIVER PARK COLLABORATIVE: $5k → 9%LUCKY DOG REFUGE: $381k → 9%MILL RIVER PARK COLLABORATIVE: $5k → 9%LUCKY DOG REFUGE: $197k → 9%INSPIRICA INC: $5k → 9%LUCKY DOG REFUGE: $120k → 9%LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC: $205k → 9%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of Kirmar Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Kirmar Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 7 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +159% since the first grant, against -58% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+159%
-58%

Still filing today

71%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
AnimalsEducationArts & CultureEmploymentReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LD
    LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $903k · revenue +192% · 53% of their budget
  • AT
    AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +559%
  • MDRC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • HI
    HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $79k
  • P1
    Project 14 Global Missions
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -58%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC: $903,075 · AnimalsLUCKY DOG REFUGE INCFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-KIRMAR FUND: $388,109 · OtherFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-KIRMAR FUNDROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $203,434 · OtherROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICIN…HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL: $79,050 · OtherHULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL+4 more: $24,191 · OtherAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureMDRC: $27,000 · EmploymentProject 14 Global Missions: $25,000 · ReligionMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsPACE UNIVERSITY: $15,315 · Education
Animals$903,075Other$694,784Arts & Culture$85,000Employment$27,000Religion$25,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Education$15,315

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUCKY DOG REFUGE INC: $903,075 over 4y, 53% of budgetAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC: $85,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMDRC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject 14 Global Missions: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $15,315 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC ↗
  • Who funds AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MDRC ↗
  • Who funds Project 14 Global Missions ↗
  • Who funds MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRICA 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Kirmar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kirmar 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 13 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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