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Koch Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$216kEducation$140kRecreation & Sports$51kHuman Services$32kArts & Culture$25kYouth Development$15kHousing & Shelter$15kAnimals$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATRE$20,000
ONE LOVE FOUNDATION$15,500
LILY LULU FOUNDATION$12,500
SEVERN SCHOOL$10,000
ANNAPOLIS AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$10,000
DANA FARBER CANCER$6,000
LUMINUS HEALTH PATHWAYS$5,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$5,250
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,250
MD THERAPEUTIC RIDING$5,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
HERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH$4,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH$4,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$4,000
PROVIDENCE CENTER$3,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AJC CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%SAFE SPACE: $1k → 11%AJC CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%SAFE SPACE: $1k → 11%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $100 → 13%AJC CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%SAFE SPACE: $500 → 11%Y OF CENTRAL MARYLAND: $1k → 11%AJC CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%Y OF CENTRAL MARYLAND: $500 → 11%Y OF CENTRAL MARYLAND: $500 → 11%BELLO MACHRE: $2k → 6%BELLO MACHRE: $750 → 6%BELLO MACHRE: $400 → 6%BELLO MACHRE: $250 → 6%BELLO MACHRE: $250 → 6%BELLO MACHRE: $250 → 6%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
VT
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$428k · 73 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
69

Total granted

$428k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+18%

Still filing today

60%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • LF
    LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +30%
  • BW
    Baltimore Washington Medical Center Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +81%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • AA
    ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +49%
  • CY
    CHATHAM YACHT CLUB INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -30%
  • IC
    INDIAN CREEK SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +31%
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
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
2
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
3
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
4
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
5
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
6
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
7
St Marys Hospital for Children Inc

St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…

Health
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Westminster Canterbury On Chesapeake Bay Foundation

To support the mission of westminster-canterbury on chesapeake bay

Health
10
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
11
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.

Health
12
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cape Cod Village 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

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 157 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
56/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UVA COLLEGE FUND: $26,100 · OtherUVA COLLEGE FUNDBaltimore Washington Medical Center Foundation Inc: $17,000 · OtherBaltimore Washington Medical Center Foundatio…AACASA: $13,500 · OtherAACASAST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $13,350 · OtherST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITALPROVIDENCE OF MARYLAND INC: $10,500 · Other+109 more: $143,495 · Other+109 moreTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $28,500 · EducationTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATIO…ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $16,550 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL …ANNAPOLIS AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationANNAPOLIS AREA CHRISTI…SEVERN SCHOOL INC: $12,000 · EducationSEVERN SCHOOL INCTABOR ACADEMY: $5,500 · EducationINDIAN CREEK SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationMARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $26,000 · HealthMARYLAND THERAPEUTIC…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $17,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer I…Children's Hospital Corporation: $11,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital …THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FO…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,700 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE …LUMINIS HEALTH PATHWAYS INC: $5,500 · HealthLUMINIS HEALTH PATHW…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,150 · HealthONE MISSION INC: $4,000 · Health+10 more: $17,450 · Health+10 morePLEASANT BAY COMMUNITY BOATING INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPLEASANT …CHATHAM YACHT CLUB INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCHATHAM Y…+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsLILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE TALENT MACHINE COMPANY INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureAJC CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBELLO MACHRE INC: $3,650 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $2,900 · Human ServicesSAFE SPACE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human Services
Other$223,945Education$110,550Health$100,800Recreation & Sports$46,000Philanthropy$35,500Arts & Culture$24,750Human Services$17,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $28,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMARYLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $26,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPLEASANT BAY COMMUNITY BOATING INC: $25,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHATHAM YACHT CLUB INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBaltimore Washington Medical Center Foundation Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $16,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANNAPOLIS AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEVERN SCHOOL INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE OF MARYLAND INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $6,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARUNDEL LODGE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUMINIS HEALTH PATHWAYS INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN CREEK SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAJC CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetONE MISSION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBELLO MACHRE INC: $3,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAGLE RESCUE OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $2,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCape Cod Foundation Inc: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE SPACE INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST: $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSARAHS HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINK FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TALENT MACHINE COMPANY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMETRO-MARYLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Puddles Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $1,000 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.

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.

Community Foundation …T Rowe Price Program …The United Way of Cen…Arundel Community Dev…Edward St John Founda…Give Back FoundationThe Mhe Foundation IncSchuh Family Foundati…The Geaton and Joann …Ryan Memorial Foundat…Phillips Charitable F…Mutual Bancorp Founda…
Community Foundation of Anne Arundel CoMD31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · Give Back Foundation · The Mhe Foundation Inc · Schuh Family Foundation Inc · The Geaton and Joann Decesaris Family Foundation Inc · Ryan Memorial Foundation · Phillips Charitable Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc

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 Koch Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Koch Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 340%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Village Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Partners in Care Maryland Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
  • First Fruits Farm Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Stowe Land Trust: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Chatham Historical Society Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
34get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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How do I get to Koch Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Koch Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 157 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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