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Kmd 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $353k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $500,000 |
| BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCE COUNCIL | $250,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SPB COUNTY | $100,000 |
| NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL | $85,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $66,758 |
| JDC | $50,900 |
| OHR TORAH STONE | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES | $45,000 |
| MARQUEE ARTS | $35,000 |
| JEWISH VOTERS RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| BERKSHIRE INTL FILM FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| THE FORWARD ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| JACOB'S PILLOW | $5,500 |
| RENEWAL OF LIFE INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 64% of Kmd Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +42%- NKNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +81%
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +38%
Funded once
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE - DONOR ADVISEDone grant, 2022 · $139k
- HIHILLEL INTERNATIONALone grant, 2017 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of the Berkshires and the most unlike its peers is Ayh Foundation. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
56 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 97 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT MAHARAT INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST) ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP ↗
- Who funds The Forward Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds KATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AYH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund #95-290240 · The Greater Barrington Foundation Inc Dba the Barrington Foundation · Raymond Zimmerman Family 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 Kmd 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Medical Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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