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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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$8.5MPhilanthropy$934kAnimals$613kEducation$392kReligion$183kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT: $165k → 15%MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $334k → 8%OCCIDENTAL ARTS & ECOLOGY CENTER: $40k → 9%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE: $210k → 10%TOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $300k → 10%YWAM SAN DIEGOBAJA: $62k → 11%JOHN MUIR PROJECT: $165k → 14%PANTHERA: $100k → 17%WILD EARTH GUARDIANS: $40k → 12%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%WILDLANDS NETWORK: $40k → 9%GULF OF ALASKA KEEPER: $51k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC: $100k → 14%NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST: $194k → 9%NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT: $100k → 15%MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300k → 8%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE: $205k → 10%TOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $300k → 10%YWAM SAN DIEGOBAJA: $43k → 11%THE WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: $500k → 14%PANTHERA: $50k → 17%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $58k → 14%WILDLANDS NETWORK: $40k → 9%GULF OF ALASKA KEEPER: $47k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC: $100k → 14%NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST: $50k → 9%NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT: $40k → 15%MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300k → 8%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE: $200k → 10%TOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $300k → 10%THE WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: $150k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC: $50k → 14%TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $50k → 8%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE: $200k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: $550k → 15%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE: $175k → 10%WILDCOAST: $150k → 11%MOJAVE DESERT LAND TRUST: $60k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: $300k → 15%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE: $160k → 10%WILDCOAST: $130k → 11%WILDCOAST: $120k → 11%WILDCOAST: $100k → 11%WILDCOAST: $100k → 11%WILDCOAST: $60k → 11%WILDCOAST: $300k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
WA
ID
MT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 44 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
151

Total granted

$7.9M
$619k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+11%

Still filing today

27%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
EnvironmentAnimalsReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +123%
  • Earth Island Institute Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +271%
  • W
    WILDCOAST
    7× · 2017–2024 · $960k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • JM
    JOHN MUIR PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $165k
  • TI
    TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • WG
    WILDEARTH GUARDIANS
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -12%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Nature Collective

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…

Environment
3
CalWild

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.

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4
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.

Animals
7
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
8
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
9
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
10
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

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)

Environment
11
Wild Landscapes Inc

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,…

Animals
12
Swan Valley Connections

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The California Desert Land Conservancy; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 223 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Earth Island Institute Inc: $1,180,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute IncWILDCOAST: $960,000 · EnvironmentWILDCOASTTOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $900,000 · EnvironmentTOMPKINS CONSERVATIONThe Wildlands Conservancy: $650,000 · EnvironmentThe Wildlands ConservancyTHE CALIFORNIA DESERT LAND CONSERVANCY: $310,000 · EnvironmentTHE CALIFORNIA DESERT LAND CONSERVANCYNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $244,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION+7 more: $273,400 · Environment+7 moreCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $1,925,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INCREWILD: $1,417,000 · AnimalsREWILDNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT: $345,000 · AnimalsNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECTPANTHERA CORPORATION: $150,000 · Animals+1 more: $118,060 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC: $350,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…PROJECT COYOTE: $300,000 · OtherPROJECT COYOT…JOHN MUIR PROJECT: $165,000 · OtherJOHN MUIR PRO…+176 more: $449,232 · Other+176 moreMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $934,405 · PhilanthropyMARIN COM…YOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA: $183,030 · ReligionWild Earth Society Incorporated: $80,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$4,517,400Animals$3,955,060Other$1,264,232Philanthropy$934,405Religion$183,030Arts & Culture$80,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $1,925,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetREWILD: $1,417,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $1,180,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetWILDCOAST: $960,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $934,405 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $900,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetThe Wildlands Conservancy: $650,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT: $345,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA DESERT LAND CONSERVANCY: $310,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $244,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA: $183,030 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $118,060 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWild Earth Society Incorporated: $80,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCottonwood Environmental Law Center: $20,000 over 1y, 31% 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 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 WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
  • Who funds Occidental Arts and Ecology Center ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Cottonwood Environmental Law Center ↗
  • Who funds THE CALIFORNIA CHAPARRAL INSTITUTE ↗

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.

PatagoniaorgNational Fish and Wil…Western Conservation …Marin Community Found…California Community …Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
PatagoniaorgCA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kisco Cares Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kisco Cares 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 223 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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