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Kissaway 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.

$84k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$122kArts & Culture$114kRecreation & Sports$44kEducation$35kYouth Development$20kHuman Services$15kEnvironment$12kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$415k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$25,000
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS FOUNDATION INC$12,500
MERCER UNIVERSITY$12,500
HAWAII CONTEMPORARY$10,000
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
PRESBYTERIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC$9,000
COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOCKOMOCK AREA YMCA: $5k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC: $9k → 13%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST: $1k → 14%EAST TUSCALOOSA COMMUNITY SOUP BOWL: $2k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $200 → 14%EAST TUSCALOOSA COMMUNITY SOUP BOWL: $1k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 → 14%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
IN
AZ
TN
SC
HI
LA
AL
GA
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.
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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 11% of Kissaway Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Kissaway 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$307k · 23 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
25

Total granted

$307k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+31%

Still filing today

83%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA
    5× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +31%
  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +34%
  • MM
    Mandarin Museum & Historical SocietyInc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +607%

Funded once

  • KL
    KA LAHUI KAI
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -17%
  • NQ
    NATIONAL QUARTERBACK CLUB CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -91%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +31%
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.

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Atlanta Hall Management Inc

To inspire and entertain by celebrating the passion and traditions of college football and its greatest players and coaches.

Arts & Culture
2
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc

The primary purpose of the h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute hospital, inc. ("hospital") is to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

Health
3
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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4
University of Florida Alumni Association Inc

The mission of the university of florida alumni association, inc. ("association") is to exclusively support and enhance the mission of the university of florida ("university") of pursuing "excellence in education and research and shaping a…

Education
5
The Florida International University Health Care Network Inc

Fiu health care network's mission is to improve and support medical education at the fiu herbert wertheim college of medicine and provide clinical support services to the larger fiu community.

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6
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
7
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
8
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Inc

The museum of contemporary art jacksonville (moca), a cultural institute of the university of north florida, promotes the discovery, knowledge, and advancement of the art, artists, and ideas of our time. moca serves the community and…

Arts & Culture
9
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
10
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 50 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $47,000 · OtherDIAMOND HEAD THEATREMERCER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $22,500 · OtherMERCER ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONJacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc: $12,500 · OtherJacksonville Jaguars Foundation IncHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSA: $8,300 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSANAMI JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA INC: $7,750 · OtherCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $7,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES CAMP I AM SPECIAL: $6,000 · OtherJACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY: $5,500 · OtherNICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · Other+17 more: $30,950 · Other+17 moreAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $80,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY…+2 more: $3,000 · HealthHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $22,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF …HONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU BIENNIAL F…Mandarin Museum & Historical SocietyInc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMandarin Museum & H…KA LAHUI KAI: $6,500 · Arts & CultureKA LAHUI KAITHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD …Museum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,600 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $21,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY H…PRESBYTERIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIA…HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOCKOMOCK Y…EAST TUSCALOOSA COMMUNITY SOUP BOWL INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesEAST TUSCAL…+1 more: $400 · Human ServicesTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $18,000 · EducationFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $5,000 · EducationLUTZIE 43 FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationTHE GARDEN CLUB OF HONOLULU: $11,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL QUARTERBACK CLUB CHARITIES INC: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$155,500Health$83,000Arts & Culture$68,100Human Services$38,400Education$27,000Environment$11,500Recreation & Sports$8,500

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 budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $47,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMandarin Museum & Historical SocietyInc: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF HONOLULU: $11,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSA: $8,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNAMI JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA INC: $7,750 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKA LAHUI KAI: $6,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL QUARTERBACK CLUB CHARITIES INC: $5,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTZIE 43 FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS PLOTT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE JACKSONVILLE INC: $350 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Pga Tour IncDubow Family Foundati…Publix Super Markets …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Renaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Raymond James Charita…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…
The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida IncFL19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Dubow Family Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc: 23% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Kissaway Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kissaway 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 50 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home