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Kwame Charitable Foundation

See schedule oKWAME CHARITABLE FOUNDATION strives to change the trajectory of the lives of motivated young adults.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$187kRecreation & Sports$48kCommunity Improvement$8k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $70,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $104,149 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,149 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$81k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI$10,000
STATE OF LOUISIANA$10,000
STATE OF KANSAS$10,000
CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS$10,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL$10,000
STATE OF MISSOURI$10,000
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%STATE OF KANSAS: $10k → 15%CEB GOLF LLC: $8k → 5%STATE OF MISSOURI: $10k → 10%MISSOURI BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $17k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $33k → 21%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%MISSISIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 34%SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%STATE OF LOUISIANA: $10k → 32%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $10k → 15%CEB GOLF: $8k → 5%LINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $10k → 21%STATE OF MISSISSIPPI: $10k → 34%SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 32%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $10k → 15%LINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS: $20k → 11%WEPOWER: $8k → 21%CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $10k → 11%THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL - GOLDFARB NURSING PROGRAM: $10k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS: $10k → 11%HARRIS-STOWE STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 21%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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$185k · 8 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$185k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & 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

  • LU
    LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +16%
  • KA
    KANSAS ATHLETICS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k

Funded once

  • FP
    Forest Park Forever Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $33k · revenue 0%
  • TS
    TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • MB
    Missouri Baptist University
    one grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue +10%
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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3
University of St Thomas

We are the University of St. Thomas, the Catholic University in the heart of Houston. We are committed to the Catholic intellectual tradition and the dialogue between faith and reason. By pursuing excellence in teaching, scholarship and…

Education
4
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
5
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
6
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
7
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
8
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
11
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
12
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Baptist University; the most unlike its peers is Wepower. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $30,000 · EducationTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIOSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $20,000 · EducationSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEMGRAMBLING UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationGRAMBLING UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCMissouri Baptist University: $16,981 · EducationMissouri Baptist UniversityHarris-Stowe Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationHarris-Stowe Foundation IncMaryville University - St Louis: $10,000 · EducationMaryville University - St LouisClark Atlanta University Inc: $10,000 · EducationClark Atlanta University IncLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherLINCOLN UNIVERSITYKANSAS ATHLETICS INC: $30,000 · OtherKANSAS ATHLETICS INCMISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSIT…CEB GOLF: $15,000 · OtherCEB GOLFForest Park Forever Inc: $32,500 · EnvironmentForest Park…THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $20,000 · HealthCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWEPOWER: $8,000 · Community Improvement
Education$146,981Other$95,000Environment$32,500Health$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000Community Improvement$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAMBLING UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMissouri Baptist University: $16,981 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarris-Stowe Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEPOWER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Tom Joyner Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Tom Joyner Foundation IncTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Kwame Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kwame Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kwame Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kwame Charitable Foundation 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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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