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Kolar Charitable Foundation of Buckley LLP

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$151kHuman Services$59kFood & Nutrition$28kHealth$19kYouth Development$18kCommunity Improvement$15kEducation$14kHousing & Shelter$13kOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA BRAIN TUMOR PROGRAM$10,000
SAMARITAN MINISTRY OF GREAT WASHINGTON$7,500
DC DIAPER BANK$5,000
YOUTH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
CURE DYSTONIA NOW$1,500
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY$1,000
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 (FY20–23, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%CENTER ON HALSTED: $5k → 14%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $500 → 14%GLAMOURGALS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $500 → 14%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $250 → 17%DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 14%DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 14%DC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%DC DIAPER BANK: $4k → 14%DC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $1k → 14%DC DIAPER BANK: $4k → 14%SAMARITAN MINISTRY OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $8k → 14%SAMARITAN MINISTRY OF GREAT WASHINGTON: $8k → 14%SAMARITAN MINISTRY OF GREAT WASHINGTON: $8k → 14%SAMARITAN MINISTRY OF GREAT WASHINGTON: $8k → 14%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 63% of Kolar Charitable Foundation of Buckley LLP’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 30%.

Kolar Charitable Foundation of Buckley LLPlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$179k · 16 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
48

Total granted

$179k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SM
    Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington
    4× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +1%
  • GREATER DC DIAPER BANK
    4× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +13%
  • TL
    THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +40%
  • WL
    WASHINGTON LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND URBAN AFFAIRS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -43%
  • TL
    THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NY
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
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
Volunteer Legal Advocates

To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…

Housing & Shelter
2
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
3
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
4
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
5
Dc Affordable Law Firm

DC Affordable Law Firm delivers accessible justice to modest-income DC residents who do not qualify for traditional sources of free civil legal services and cannot afford standard representation. Our innovative programming expands access…

Human Services
6
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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7
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

Legal aid's mission is to 'make justice real' - in individual and systemic ways - for persons living in poverty in the district of columbia. in particular, legal aid provides civil legal assistance to individuals, families, and communities…

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8
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
9
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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10
Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc

Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.

Crime & Legal
11
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
12
Legal Voice

Legal voice was founded on the belief that all women, girls, and lgbtq+ people should be able to live their lives with dignity, safety, and autonomy. we advance justice and build community power by using multiple strategies: litigation,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Keep Climbing Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 67 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
33/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER: $15,000 · OtherDC BAR PRO BONO CENTERLEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY: $15,000 · OtherLEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLYTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NY: $10,800 · OtherTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NYUCLA BRAIN TUMOR PROGRAM: $10,000 · OtherUCLA BRAIN TUMOR PROGRAMTHE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $8,000 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS…DC ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherATONEMENT EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherCARRINGTON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherWASHINGTON NATIONAL YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER: $5,000 · OtherVeterans Consortium Pro Bono Program: $10,000 · OtherVeterans Consortium Pro Bono ProgramPHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY: $5,000 · Other+28 more: $38,286 · Other+28 moreSamaritan Ministry of Greater Washington: $30,000 · Human ServicesSamaritan Ministry of…GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $18,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC DIAPER BAN…Center on Halsted: $5,000 · Human ServicesCenter on HalstedGIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $5,000 · Human ServicesGIFTS FOR THE HOMELES…GLAMOURGALS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGLAMOURGALS FOUNDATIO…DC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $1,250 · Human ServicesTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $17,450 · Crime & LegalTHE LEGAL AID SOCI…CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $12,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S LAW CEN…EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $10,000 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORK…THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION: $7,430 · Crime & LegalTHE DISTRICT OF CO…KIND INC: $5,250 · Crime & LegalKIND INCTHE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FUND FOR MODER…+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalFeeding America: $25,000 · Food & NutritionSt Johns Bread & Life Program Inc: $2,500 · Food & NutritionYouth Leadership Foundation Inc: $15,000 · EducationRon Brown Scholar Fund: $5,500 · EducationTHE GAULT CENTER: $2,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationAN OPEN BOOK FOUNDATION: $1,395 · EducationWASHINGTON BAR ASSOC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationWASHINGTON LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND URBAN AFFAIRS INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyKEEP CLIMBING FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropySTREET LAW INC: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$137,086Human Services$66,750Crime & Legal$58,130Food & Nutrition$27,500Education$26,895Philanthropy$19,000Community Improvement$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSamaritan Ministry of Greater Washington: $30,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFeeding America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $17,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDC BAR PRO BONO CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Leadership Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTREET LAW INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND URBAN AFFAIRS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Consortium Pro Bono Program: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION: $7,430 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRon Brown Scholar Fund: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIND INC: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLAMOURGALS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP CLIMBING FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSt Johns Bread & Life Program Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GAULT CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADRAIGOS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAN OPEN BOOK FOUNDATION: $1,395 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON BAR ASSOC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSLIM ADVOCATES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUITED FOR CHANGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURE DYSTONIA NOW INC: $1,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSMYAL Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $250 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.

Greater Washington Co…The Sidley Austin Fou…The Morrison & Foerst…Venable Foundation IncKatten Muchin Rosenma…The Morris and Gwendo…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Equal Justice WorksUnited Way of the Nat…The District of Colum…Miller & Chevalier Ch…World Bank Community …
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC26.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Equal Justice Works · United Way of the National Capital Area · The District of Columbia Bar Foundation · Miller & Chevalier Charitable Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund

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 Kolar Charitable Foundation of Buckley LLP funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kolar Charitable Foundation of Buckley LLP. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 Kolar Charitable Foundation of Buckley LLP?

Find your warmest path to Kolar Charitable Foundation of Buckley LLP 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 67 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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