· Private foundation
Knowledge Systems Institute
Ksi purpose is to engage low income girls in technology, entrepreneurship, and science to foster leadership and continuing interest in education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RODALE INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS | $20,000 |
| SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS | $20,000 |
| GIRLSTART | $20,000 |
| CAMFED USA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SCIENCE 4 GIRLS | $6,000 |
| GRIZZLY CORPS - UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ECOLOGICAL FARMING ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| STEM LIKE A GIRL | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +3% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- SNSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +3%
- SCSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +88%
- GWGirls With Impact Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- FWFUN WITH ACADEMICS LLCone grant, 2022 · $67k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -37%
- FSFEMALE STRONGgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +76%
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.
Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Diy girls mission is to increase girls and gender-expansive youth's interest and long-term success in technology, engineering and making through innovative educational experiences and mentor relationships.
Girls inc.'s mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. in partnership with schools and community organizations, we focus on the development of the whole girl. she learns to value herself, take risks, and discover and…
Electric girls builds girls' (ages 5 to 14) confidence & capabilities by engaging them in science, technology, engineering, and math (stem). electric girls facilitates in-school and extra-curricular programs (after-school, weekends, summer…
Girls inc. inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. our comprehensive approach to whole girl development equips girls to nagivate gender, economic, and social barriers and grow up healthy, educated, and independent.
Digital Girl, Inc. (DGI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of New York City, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.
Girls in tech is a social networking enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology fields around the world.
Self-eSTEM ignites pride, purpose and possibility among girls and women, by providing STEM training that strengthens digital, technical and leadership skills, sustaining their STEM identities.
B.E. Academy for Girls empowers young women through a rigorous, culturally responsive STEAM curriculum that centers identity, cultivates leadership and critical thinking, and integrates real-world experiences to prepare them for college,…
Girl effect works for a future in which every girl is in control of her body, her health, her learning and her livelihood. we work across africa and asia with adolescent girls and young women using the power of media and technology to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Science Club for Girls Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Girls With Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEMALE STRONG ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ECHO ↗
- Who funds BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Techbridge Girls ↗
- Who funds GIRLS 4 SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Ecological Farming Association ↗
- Who funds Girl Plus Environment Corporation ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Knowledge Systems Institute 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.
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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