· Private foundation
Kookaburra Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC | $50,356 |
| LYNX EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| OCEAN ACADEMY | $25,402 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE | $25,402 |
| AMERICAN TROUBADOUR PROJECT | $20,000 |
| WILLOWDALE STEEPLECHASE | $10,265 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $10,265 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL PRESCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LEE LEE JONES PATIENT ASSISTANCE FUND | $10,000 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY | $5,000 |
| HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MOUNT HARMON | $5,000 |
| DU PONT CEMETERY AND GENEOLOGY | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
47 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- AHAMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $202k · revenue +19%
- LELYNX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $107k · revenue +169%
- THTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2019 · $41k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF NATIONAL HISTORYone grant, 2023 · $20k
- BGBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION BGHCone grant, 2021 · $5k
- WWINTERTHURone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To support and to provide advice and assistance to the trustees of the hill-stead museum, a national historic landmark and public charity which preserves, displays and interprets the 1901 colonial home, property, and fine art collections…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
History fort lauderdale brings the stories of our diverse community to life through educational experiences, cultural exhibits, research, and preservation for future generations.
The naval historical foundation (nhf) has served people interested in the history of the u.s. navy's contributions to america's maritime history and heritage since march of 1926. our mission is to preserve and honor the legacy of those who…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
To preserve, cultivate, and share historic sylvester manor.
The organization preserves the history of sailing and its impact on american culture; honors those who have made outstanding contributions to the sport; demonstrates its value for scholastic and life skills learning; and encourages sailing…
Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Aiken Horse Park Foundation. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 77 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 AMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LYNX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOWDALE STEEPLECHASE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ALMANACK ARTS COLONY INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET TIPPING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOUNT HARMON INC ↗
- Who funds PLANTATION FIELD EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: Sharp Foundation · Wa Speakman Family Foundation · Stratus Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Hamilton Family Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Mountain Laurel Foundation · Blue Yak Foundation · Dean Foundation Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Marmot 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 Kookaburra Foundation 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.
- Hockessin Fire Company — 60% of income from government
- Historical Society of Delaware — 18% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.