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· Private foundation
KISCO CARES FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$3.0M
Granted FY2024
52
Grants
11
Communities
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
environmental lawearth
2019
land
2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024 · 52 grants
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
$1,308
Median grant
11
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
- REWILD$1,417,000
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$334,405
- WILDCOAST$300,000
- CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$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
- CONNIE RAMIREZ - CALIFORNIA STATE U$1,645
- CELIA RONNENBERG - NORTH CAROLINA S$1,645
- KENNEDY THOMAS - UNIVERSITY OF NORT$1,645
- RICARDO MARQUEZ - CALIFORNIA STATE$1,645
- PATRICK FINKBINER - NORTH CAROLINA$1,645
- JADA POTTS - NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL$1,645
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 81% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
International Wildlife
The international wildlife refuge foundation was created in 2005 to help foster conservation, increase refuge visibility, encourage support, and enhance quality of life. it is an alliance of organizations and individuals that builds the…
Environment
2
Women for Conservation
Protect endangered wildlife and their habitats
Environment
3
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
4
Marine Conservation Science Institute
Philanthropy
5
Alaska Wildlife Conservation
Awcc is a sanctuary dedicated to preserving alaska's wildlife through conservation, research, education, and quality animal care.
Animals
6
Arizona Center for Nature Conservation
The arizona center for nature conservation (acnc) advances the stewardship and conservation of animals and their habitats while providing experiences that inspire people and motivate them to care for the natural world.
Animals
7
Defenders of Wildlife
Habitat and species protection.
Animals
8
Coastal Ranches Conservancy
The mission of the coastal ranches conservancy is to identify, fund and implement projects that will enhance and protect the natural environment of the gaviota coast.
Environment
9
Cascadia Wildlands
Cascadia wildands defends and restores cascadia'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…
Environment
10
Wildlife Conservation Society
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
Animals
11
Land to Sea Conservancy
Environment
12
Environment Now
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Marin Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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.
PatagoniaorgCA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · California Community Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Kisco Cares Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Kisco Cares Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines