· Private foundation
Kissick Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+13 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 10000 BRAINS NEURO AL INC | $1,000,000 |
| OCEAN VISIONS | $750,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA SAN FRANCISCO | $650,000 |
| THE WINDWARD FUND | $600,000 |
| SPARK CLIMATE SOLUTIONS INC | $500,000 |
| DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| PURPOSE CAMPAIGNS LLC | $300,000 |
| THE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $250,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $250,000 |
| GREAT BARRIER REEF FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| 1907 FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE | $235,216 |
| EARTH ENABLE INC | $200,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Kissick Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 15 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OVOCEAN VISIONS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +173%
YEAR UP INC6× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +1%- TMTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +42%
Funded once
- DODIRECTOR OF SPORTS PERFORMANCEone grant, 2017 · $400k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +10%
- SUSTANFORD UNIVERSITY - DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICSone grant, 2020 · $200k
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
How this is measured
96 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. 96 of the 165 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds OCEAN VISIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds 10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INC ↗
- Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAREMESSAGE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE MATCH ↗
- Who funds Collegespring Inc ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Spark Climate Solutions ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1907 FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LA PROMISE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EARTHENABLE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Barrel Bag ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Weingart Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Resslergertz Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kissick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kissick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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