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Kittay Foundation Inc at a glance

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Kittay Foundation Inc

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.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$166kArts & Culture$48kReligion$12kEnvironment$10kFood & Nutrition$10kCivil Rights$5kEducation$5kInternational$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$142k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY$10,000
CHILDREN'S PSC FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU)$3,239
MARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION$520
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$250
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 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE ARIZONA OPERA: $10k → 11%GFM: $623 → 7%MARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 9%BETHEL LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORP: $510 → 16%NYC FACES: $3k → 17%SAVE OUR PLANET: $1k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW: $1k → 18%SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $50 → 9%CARE USA: $263 → 13%THE PURA SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%THE ARIZONA OPERA: $10k → 11%BETHEL LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORP: $500 → 16%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $250 → 17%THE PURA SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $206 → 9%THE ARIZONA OPERA: $10k → 11%THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY: $50k → 16%MANHATTAN YOUTH BALLET: $10k → 17%THE DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN: $5k → 11%THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY: $35k → 16%THE STEPHAN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE: $10k → 17%THE DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN: $5k → 11%THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY: $20k → 16%MANHATTAN YOUTH BALLET: $5k → 17%THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY: $17k → 16%MANHATTAN YOUTH BALLET: $3k → 17%THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY: $15k → 16%THE STEPHAN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE: $2k → 17%THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY: $10k → 16%NYU: $5k → 17%THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY: $10k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $100 → 17%NEW FOOD ECONOMY: $10k → 17%CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION: $520 → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU): $3k → 17%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

ME
NY
CT
CA
AZ
DC
AL
GA
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 7 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$231k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+7%

Still filing today

71%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
HealthInternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +56%
  • MY
    MANHATTAN YOUTH BALLET INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +41%
  • DB
    DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEW FOOD ECONOMY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -75%
  • N
    NYU
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
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
3
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
4
Sociedad Interamericana De Prensa Inc

Between 2024 and 2025, the committee on freedom of the press and information, together with its subcommittees on impunity and chapultepecsalta, participated in approximately nine activities. these included a panel discussion entitled…

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
7
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
8
Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc

Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.

Unclassified
9
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine

The sanford consortium is a collaboration among five preeminent life science research institutions formed to enable renowned scientists with expertise in stem cell and regenerative medicine research to collaborate to seek transformative…

Health
10
Cancer Research Institute Inc

See schedule ocri is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cancer immunotherapy through scientific discovery and global collaboration. since 1953, cri has funded research that deepens understanding of the immune system and its…

Health
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Inc

Accelerating science through its mission to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the 21st century.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Childrens Psc Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $156,500 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC+3 more: $8,726 · HealthARIZONA OPERA COMPANY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA OPERA COMPAN…MANHATTAN YOUTH BALLET INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN YOUTH BALL…STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE: $11,800 · OtherSTEPHEN WISE…NYU: $5,181 · OtherNYUAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU): $3,239 · OtherAMERICAN CIV…Individual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual g…BETHEL LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,010 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherMARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,123 · OtherDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE NEW FOOD ECONOMY INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionHIAS INC: $3,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $263 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250 · InternationalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $50 · Crime & Legal
Health$165,226Arts & Culture$48,000Other$28,353Environment$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000International$3,513Crime & Legal$1,050

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 budgetTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $156,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA OPERA COMPANY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN YOUTH BALLET INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW FOOD ECONOMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHILDRENS PSC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPURA Syndrome Foundation: $3,206 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHIAS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kittay Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kittay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 24 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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