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Kisco Cares 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 $10k43 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $572k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REWILD | $1,417,000 |
| MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $334,405 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| WILDCOAST | $300,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| THE WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| PANTHERA | $100,000 |
| YWAM SAN DIEGOBAJA | $61,935 |
| MOJAVE DESERT LAND TRUST | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,645 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,645 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,645 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,645 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,645 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,645 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% 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.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 27 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- CFCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +123%
Earth Island Institute Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +271%- WWILDCOAST7× · 2017–2024 · $960k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- JMJOHN MUIR PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $165k
- TITURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORKone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -1%
- OAOccidental Arts and Ecology Centerone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +11%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…
Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The California Desert Land Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Gulf of Alaska Keeper Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 223 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDCOAST ↗
- Who funds MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOMPKINS CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds The Wildlands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA DESERT LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA ↗
- Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gulf of Alaska Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Society Incorporated ↗
- Who funds TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Occidental Arts and Ecology Center ↗
- Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA CHAPARRAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds Cottonwood Environmental Law Center ↗
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: Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Western Conservation Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Kisco Cares 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.
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% 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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