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Koivu Foundation INC at a glance

· Private foundation

Koivu 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.

$41k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$28kRecreation & Sports$17kHuman Services$17kFood & Nutrition$15kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$10kAnimals$10kYouth Development$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$906k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation$10,000
Sports 4 the Kids$6,128
Chair the Love$5,000
Harvest Time International$5,000
Picnic Project Inc$5,000
Tampa Film Institute$5,000
Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Harvest Time International: $5k → 11%Harvest Time International: $5k → 11%Harvest Time International: $5k → 11%Chair the Love: $5k → 11%Chair the Love: $5k → 11%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109k · 9 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$109k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+95%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & 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

  • PP
    PICNIC PROJECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • CT
    Chair The Love Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • TF
    TAMPA FILM INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -7%
  • SN
    SPECIAL NEEDS ADVOCACY PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
Project Peanut Butter

Project peanut butter (ppb) seeks to advance the treatment of severe malnutrition, the single largest cause of child deaths in the world today, using effective, locally produced ready-to-use therapeutic foods. this nonprofit is formed to…

International
2
Thought for Food Foundation
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3
Feeding the Hungry Inc

Food distribution to community of palm beach county. fundraising and contribution accepted for food distribution purposes.

Human Services
4
Flip the Hourglass Foundation Inc

Fund Brain tumor Research and to raise money to support brain tumor research

—
5
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
6
The Wishing Chair Foundation
Education
7
Foodfinderinc

To provide food insecure families with the most trusted way to find free food.

Food & Nutrition
8
Project Feed the Kids Inc

Our mission is to fight food insecurities in our community.

Food & Nutrition
9
Gerald C Fox Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Feed the Hungry Pantry of Palm Beach County Inc

Ending hunger in palm beach county

Food & Nutrition
11
The Brain Foundation

The brain foundation is organized and operated exclusively for educational, public, charitable, and scientific purposes. the specific purpose of the brain foundation is to educate the public and promote medical scientific research in the…

Health
12
The Pincus Fund for Hunger Relief
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tampa Film 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPORTS 4 THE KIDS INC: $16,778 · OtherSPORTS 4 THE KIDS INCIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCentral Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens: $10,000 · OtherCentral Florida Zoo and Botanical GardensSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $5,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA IN…SPECIAL NEEDS ADVOCACY PROGRAM INC: $5,000 · OtherSPECIAL NEEDS ADVOCACY PROGRAM INCIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · Other+2 more: $2,025 · OtherHARVEST TIME INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHARVEST TIME INTERNATIO…Chair The Love Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesChair The Love IncPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $18,000 · HealthPediatric Brain …+1 more: $200 · HealthPICNIC PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPICNIC PR…TAMPA FILM INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTAMPA FIL…STOMP THE BULLYING INC STOMP THE BULLYING INC: $9,000 · Youth Development
Other$50,803Human Services$25,000Health$18,200Food & Nutrition$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Youth Development$9,000

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 budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHARVEST TIME INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPICNIC PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetChair The Love Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTAMPA FILM INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSTOMP THE BULLYING INC STOMP THE BULLYING INC: $9,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $200 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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