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Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of KOLASA FOUNDATION TRUST BESSEMER TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $416k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARRY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | $200,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $61,200 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH EAST AND NORTH FLORODA | $55,000 |
| OPERATION INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| GRACE CENTER OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA | $30,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $30,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $30,000 |
| TRUST BRIDGE HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP DESIGNATE | $25,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $25,000 |
| PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS | $15,000 |
| ST JOAN OF ARC CATHOLIC CHURCH | $15,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $15,000 |
| RAINBOW RAILROAD | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- OIOPERATION INTERNATIONAL LTD5× · 2021–2025 · $195k · revenue +124%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +20%
TREVOR PROJECT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- BUBARRY UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue +6%
- RAROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +28%
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue ×45
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.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Women's Ordination Conference. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 45 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 OPERATION INTERNATIONAL LTD ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DONNA KLEIN JEWISH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds BARRY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FINAL EXIT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ORDINATION CONFERENCE ↗
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: Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 1% of income from government
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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