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Kiwi 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.

$937k
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$1.2MInternational$390kEducation$252kFood & Nutrition$67kHealth$63kEnvironment$48kPublic Benefit$47kPhilanthropy$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $448k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $413k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$150,000
THE GLOBAL CHILD$149,000
ARTS LETTERS AND NUMBERS$114,000
SAGE COLLEGES$48,000
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$40,000
ALBANY PRO MUSICA INC$38,000
PLAYHOUSE STAGE CO$37,500
ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION$26,000
ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$25,500
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH$25,000
EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA$20,000
PROCTORS THEATER$18,000
Individual grant recipient$17,900
SAND LAKE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$17,100
CAFFE LENA$16,250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER: $1k → 12%SOUTH END CHILDREN'S CAFE: $250 → 14%PARK PLAYHOUSE: $8k → 14%PARK PLAYHOUSE: $6k → 14%PARK PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 14%PARK PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 14%PARK PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 14%PARK PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 14%PARK PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 14%PARK PLAYHOUSE: $3k → 14%HOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY: $500 → 14%ARC OF RENSSELAER COUNTY: $1k → 11%ARC OF RENSSELAER COUNTY: $1k → 11%LIVING RESOURCES: $1k → 14%LIVING RESOURCES: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
DC
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 76 repeat orgs$528k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

76 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
49

Total granted

$2.2M
$216k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+8%

Still filing today

47%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TG
    The Global Child Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $330k · revenue +14% · 85% of their budget
  • RS
    RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +42%
  • AL
    ARTS LETTERS AND NUMBERS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $137k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GLOBAL CHILD
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -22%
  • UA
    UPSTATE ALLIANCE FOR THE CREATIVE ECONOMY
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Saratoga Arts Inc

Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
2
Adirondack Theatre Festival Inc

The organization strives to challenge entertain and nourish its audience through the development and production of new and contemporary musicals and plays. this relationship engages the community as audience members and participants in…

Arts & Culture
3
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
4
Upper Albany Main Street Program Inc

We preserve, revitalize, and support the commercial district, creating a center of choiceby collaborating with residents and stakeholders to foster a successful community.

Community Improvement
5
Cny Arts Inc

CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.

Arts & Culture
6
Binghamton Philharmonic Inc

The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.

Arts & Culture
7
Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County

The everson museum of art of syracuse and onondaga county is a not-for-profit organization located in syracuse, new york. its stated purpose is to conduct cultural, charitable, and educational activities. the museum's support comes…

Arts & Culture
8
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
9
Arts Services Initiative of Western New York Inc

Arts services inc. (asi) empowers the region's artists and arts organizations with connections to funding, learning opportunities, and community access to the arts. we are a resource hub for the western new york arts and cultural sector.

Arts & Culture
10
Artpark & Company Inc

Artpark & company fosters a transformative world of artistic engagement that explores the human experience, cultivates creativity, and encourages curiosity. our work is informed by a long tradition of discovery, an expectation of artistic…

11
Central New York Community Arts Council Inc

Through live performances, theatrical events and educational avenues, the stanley theatre, operated by the central new york community arts council, remains the center for excellence in the arts, community engagement and economic stability…

Arts & Culture
12
Su Theatre Corporation D/B/a Syracuse Stage

Syracuse stage tells stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experiences.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albany Institute of History and Art and the most unlike its peers is The Freddie Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArts & Cultural Organizatio…University Student & Alumni…Sustainable Systems AdvocacyAlbany Area Community Devel…Youth Sports LeaguesPublic LibrariesCommunity Support ServicesFamily Philanthropic Founda…Capital Region Community Or…History & Cultural Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr12%36%35–55yr15%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr15%35%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/74
the rest of the field
15%
3,445/23,470

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 153 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
47/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $101,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientELLEN SINOPOLI DANCE CO — $92,800 · OtherELLEN SINOPOLI DANCE COIndividual grant recipient — $70,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNION COLLEGE — $60,000 · OtherCAPITAL REPERTORY THEATER — $56,000 · Other+96 more — $782,164 · Other+96 moreARTS LETTERS AND NUMBERS — $137,000 · Arts & CultureARTS LETTERS AND NUMBERSTHE ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION — $111,280 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPIT…Albany Pro Musica Inc — $78,500 · Arts & CultureAlbany Pro Musica IncALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $58,500 · Arts & CultureALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN…SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $42,500 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CEN…CAFFE LENA INC — $40,475 · Arts & CultureCAFFE LENA INCLAKE GEORGE OPERA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureOLD SONGS INC — $29,500 · Arts & CultureALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART — $28,200 · Arts & CultureAlbany Barn Inc — $26,000 · Arts & CultureRENSSELAER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $23,900 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $62,400 · Arts & Culture+15 moreThe Global Child Inc — $330,000 · EducationThe Global Child IncRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE — $158,050 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE+6 more — $27,250 · EducationCAPITAL ROOTS INC — $50,312 · EnvironmentHudson Taconic Lands Inc — $21,500 · EnvironmentMOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVANCY — $14,000 · EnvironmentTHE ALBANY WATERWAY INC — $3,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentPARK PLAYHOUSE INC — $41,275 · Human ServicesNYSARC INC RENSSELAER COUNTY CHAPTER — $2,000 · Human ServicesLIVING RESOURCES CORPORATION — $2,000 · Human Services+3 more — $1,750 · Human ServicesUPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $10,000 · HealthAmerican Liver Foundation — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · HealthUNITY HOUSE OF TROY INC — $4,500 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · International
Other$1,312,364Arts & Culture$668,255Education$515,300Environment$89,812Human Services$47,025Health$30,500International$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Global Child Inc — $330,000 over 4y, 85% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE — $158,050 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARTS LETTERS AND NUMBERS — $137,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetTHE ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION — $111,280 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetAlbany Pro Musica Inc — $78,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $58,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCAPITAL ROOTS INC — $50,312 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $42,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARK PLAYHOUSE INC — $41,275 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCAFFE LENA INC — $40,475 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetLAKE GEORGE OPERA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD SONGS INC — $29,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART — $28,200 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC — $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlbany Barn Inc — $26,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRENSSELAER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $23,900 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHudson Taconic Lands Inc — $21,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetEMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSARATOGA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budget518 ELEVATED INC — $17,050 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMUSICIANS OF MA'ALWYCK INC — $15,100 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVANCY — $14,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL CORPORATION — $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRENSSELAER LAND TRUST INC — $11,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC — $10,020 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALBANY FUND FOR EDUCATION INC — $7,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY HOUSE OF TROY INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK EXPLORER INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $3,605 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION — $3,036 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRADIO DIARIES INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALBANY WATERWAY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC ALBANY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELECTRONIC BODY ARTS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetALBANY CENTER GALLERIES INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNYSARC INC RENSSELAER COUNTY CHAPTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING RESOURCES CORPORATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds The Global Child Inc
  • Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE
  • Who funds ARTS LETTERS AND NUMBERS
  • Who funds THE ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION
  • Who funds Albany Pro Musica Inc
  • Who funds ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds CAPITAL ROOTS INC
  • Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
  • Who funds PARK PLAYHOUSE INC
  • Who funds CAFFE LENA INC
  • Who funds LAKE GEORGE OPERA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds OLD SONGS INC
  • Who funds ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART
  • Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC
  • Who funds Albany Barn Inc
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH INC
  • Who funds RENSSELAER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds Hudson Taconic Lands Inc
  • Who funds EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds SARATOGA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds 518 ELEVATED INC
  • Who funds MUSICIANS OF MA'ALWYCK INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY85.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Review Foundation · The Bender Family Foundation · The McCarthy Charities Inc · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · David & Candace Weir Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation)

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Kiwi Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Survival Centers Inc9% of income from government
  • The Artist Book Foundation3% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
29report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kiwi Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kiwi 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 153 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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