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Koha 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.

$961k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$3.1MInternational$1.7MEnvironment$823kCommunity Improvement$574kHealth$364kArts & Culture$149kEducation$110kRecreation & Sports$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $250k+2 grants · $900k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACUMEN FUND$650,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$250,000
NZ OLYMPIC COMMITTEE AMERICA INC$20,000
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER$10,000
OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK$8,000
COMIC RELIEF NEW YORK$5,000
COALITION HOMELESS NEW YORK$5,000
GIVE DIRECTLY NEW YORK$4,000
NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH$2,575
FRIENDS OF CLERMONT$2,500
NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT$2,000
KINGSTON LAND TRUST$1,041
ART OMI$1,000
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.

Your US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($6.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($857k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HUDSON GUILD: $6k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $5k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $5k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $2k → 17%Charity Water: $1k → 17%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

MN
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
DE
KS
DC
AL
FL

Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($857k)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Kenya$820k · 1 grant
New Zealand$35k · 3 grants
France$2k · 2 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 17 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
46

Total granted

$5.2M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+23%

Still filing today

71%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +49%
  • AF
    ACUMEN FUND INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +34%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $101k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $820k
  • GF
    GREENLIGHT FUND INC
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +23%
  • TA
    TARGET ALS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
4
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
5
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

8
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

10
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
Berggruen Institute
Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Sapling Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr21%47%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr11%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr21%39%20–35yr14%54%35–55yr11%2%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
11%
6,284/56,364

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

38 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. 38 of the 71 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $3,050,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION+1 more — $66,000 · PhilanthropyACUMEN FUND INC — $1,588,715 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INCInternational Rescue Committee INC — $101,172 · InternationalInternational Rescue Commi…+1 more — $3,700 · InternationalIndividual grant recipient — $819,978 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…TARGET ALS — $100,000 · OtherTARGET ALSMAYO CLINIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT — $100,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC DEVELOPMENT …STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT — $100,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY DEVE…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $64,999 · OtherPACER CENTER INC PARENT ADVOCACY — $60,000 · Other+40 more — $297,822 · Other+40 moreGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $500,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGH…TED FOUNDATION INC — $73,000 · Community ImprovementTED FOUND…JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPENHOUSENEWYORK INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF CLERMONT INC — $7,510 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History — $6,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $4,030 · Arts & CultureNEXT FOR AUTISM INC — $15,000 · HealthBRING CHANGE 2 MIND — $10,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,000 · HealthTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Civil RightsBLUEPRINT KANSAS INC dba KSVOTES — $5,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $1,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $200 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$3,116,000International$1,693,587Other$1,542,799Community Improvement$573,000Arts & Culture$155,540Health$27,000Civil Rights$21,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $3,050,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC — $1,588,715 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $500,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $101,172 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTED FOUNDATION INC — $73,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHED NYC INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAll Star Code Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOPENHOUSENEWYORK INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC — $7,575 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CLERMONT INC — $7,510 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART OMI INC — $3,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKingston Land Trust Inc — $1,041 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWings World Quest Inc — $1,030 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION — $100 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 ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC
  • Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
  • Who funds TED FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE SAPLING FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SHED NYC INC
  • Who funds OPEN HEART FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HUDSON GUILDINC
  • Who funds NEXT FOR AUTISM INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION
  • Who funds All Star Code Inc
  • Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
  • Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND
  • Who funds OPENHOUSENEWYORK INC
  • Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CLERMONT INC
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History
  • Who funds BLUEPRINT KANSAS INC dba KSVOTES
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds ART OMI 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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY14.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Koha Foundation Inc 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Koha Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Koha 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 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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