How much does Kite Family Foundation give?

Kite Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $81,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Kite Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Education (15%), Food & Nutrition (15%).

Who are Kite Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lighthouse Youth Services ($14k), ProKids ($13k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($13k).

Does Kite Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kite Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kite Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is Kite Family Foundation based?

Kite Family Foundation is based in OH.

Kite Family Foundation

Kite Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kite Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$82k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$38kEducation$33kFood & Nutrition$32kHealth$26kYouth Development$14kArts & Culture$14kCivil Rights$13kCrime & Legal$13kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$959k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$6,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$5,000
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES	$5,000
STEPPING STONES INC	$5,000
SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER CINCINNAT	$5,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION	$5,000
PRO KIDS	$5,000
NYACK CENTER	$4,000
MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES	$4,000
SOUP ANGLES OF NYACK	$4,000
BARD COLLEGE	$4,000
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM	$4,000
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$4,000
CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS	$4,000
FREESTORE FOOD BANK	$4,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$207k · 27 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$207k

$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+43%

Still filing today

67%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesFood & NutritionCivil RightsEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

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LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES
5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +68%
P
ProKids
5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +137%
SP
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +13%

Funded once

MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +138%
CC
CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH
one grant, 2021 · $2k
SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF OHIO
one grant, 2021 · $1k

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.

Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

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Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals

Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

See schedule o.legal aid's mission is to secure justice, equity and access to opportunity for and with people who have low incomes through passionate legal representation and advocacy for systematic change.

—

The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo

The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…

Crime & Legal

Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

—

Ohio Justice and Policy Center

To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.

Civil Rights

Children and Youth Justice Center

The center for children & youth justice was founded in 2006 with one mission: reform the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to improve the lives of generations of children and youth in washington state. our focus is large-scale,…

Crime & Legal

Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture

Cincinnati Observatory Center

The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.

Arts & Culture

Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy

Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc

Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons and Beyond Inc; the most unlike its peers is Soup Angels of Nyack 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 36 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

14/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$114,500Human Services$27,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Education$18,000Civil Rights$13,500Crime & Legal$12,500Arts & Culture$12,500

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.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kite Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kite Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home