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Kresa Family Foundation

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.

$613k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Science & Tech$3.8MEducation$2.0MHealth$280kArts & Culture$268kInternational$24kReligion$20kHousing & Shelter$15kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $332k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$92,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$250,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$240,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$92,000
PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FDN$17,500
REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$8,700
KEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $20k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $13k → 14%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.

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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 11 repeat orgs$762k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$4.6M
$762k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+46%

Still filing today

55%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalScience & TechOther

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

  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $973k · revenue +18%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    7× · 2018–2024 · $644k · revenue +81%
  • PA
    PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $89k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • BL
    BOOTH-KRESA LEADERSHIP CHAIR CIT
    one grant, 2020 · $240k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +35%

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
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
5
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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8
Boston Architectural College

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

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9
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Keep Bel Air Beautiful. 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 60 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr13%60%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%3%20–35yr11%2%35–55yr13%92%55yr+

The field is 24% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,956

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

21 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. 21 of the 33 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF — $2,146,667 · OtherCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OFMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF — $480,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OFBOOTH-KRESA LEADERSHIP CHAIR CIT — $240,000 · OtherBOOTH-KRESA LEADERSHIP CHAIR CITPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT — $140,000 · Other+10 more — $214,800 · Other+10 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $1,210,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $972,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYWellesley College — $644,000 · EducationWellesley CollegePRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Education+2 more — $10,000 · EducationPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $89,250 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY — $54,065 · Arts & CultureHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ — $25,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $23,500 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $70,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center — $50,000 · HealthJOHN TRACY CLINIC — $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $12,500 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $12,500 · InternationalPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY — $11,250 · InternationalKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $10,000 · Science & Tech
Other$3,221,467Education$2,936,500Arts & Culture$216,815Health$120,000Human Services$32,500International$23,750Community Improvement$15,000Science & Tech$10,000

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $1,210,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $972,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $644,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $89,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY — $54,065 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $23,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN TRACY CLINIC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL — $15,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY — $11,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTING CULTURES MOBILE MUSEUM — $6,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Kresa Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 33 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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