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Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2019
18
Grants FY2019
16
Organizations funded FY2019
25%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$500
Largest grant, FY2019
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 16
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 25% of the organizations Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
InternationalFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201916$10k25%
FY201814$11k7%
FY201714$11kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$24kHealth$6kArts & Culture$6kYouth Development$4kPublic Benefit$2kFood & Nutrition$500Crime & Legal$400Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula$4,00030%
Castilleja School Foundation$3,00030%
Sage Hill School$3,00030%
Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy$75030%
The Heritage Foundation$50030%
Operation Smile Inc$50010%
Media Research Center$50030%
Ecumenical Hunger Program$50010%
Positive Coaching Alliance$50010%
Pacific Legal Foundation$40020%
Judicial Watch Inc$35030%
US English Inc$20030%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCastilleja School Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSage Hill School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedia Research Center: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEcumenical Hunger Program: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPositive Coaching Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUS English Inc: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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How do I get to Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leland and Kathleen Kaiser 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.

About Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation

How much does Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation give?
Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $15,950 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (13%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula ($4k), Castilleja School Foundation ($3k), Sage Hill School ($3k).
Does Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation based?
Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 20 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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