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Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2019 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOOVER INSTITUTION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
PATHWAYS HOSPICE FOUNDATION$1,250
CASTILLEJA SCHOOL$1,000
SAGE HILL SCHOOL$1,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA$1,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY CANTOR ARTS$1,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$500
POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE$500
ST ANTHONY's PADUA DINING ROOM$500
ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM$500
OPERATION SMILE$500
PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE$250
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$250
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$200
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 (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA: $2k → 7%CASTILLEJA SCHOOL: $1k → 8%SAGE HILL SCHOOL: $1k → 10%PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $250 → 10%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $200 → 12%FAIR: $100 → 17%JUDICIAL WATCH: $250 → 14%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $200 → 6%OPERATION SMILE: $500 → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA: $1k → 7%CASTILLEJA SCHOOL: $1k → 8%SAGE HILL SCHOOL: $1k → 10%PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $250 → 10%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $200 → 12%FAIR: $100 → 17%JUDICIAL WATCH: $100 → 14%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $200 → 6%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA: $1k → 7%CASTILLEJA SCHOOL: $1k → 8%SAGE HILL SCHOOL: $1k → 10%PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $250 → 10%HOWARD JAMES TAXPAYERS ASSN: $200 → 12%FAIR: $100 → 17%US ENGLISH: $100 → 14%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $100 → 6%ST ANTHONY's PADUA DINING ROOM: $500 → 7%ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $500 → 8%HOWARD JAMES TAXPAYERS ASSN: $200 → 12%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%PATHWAYS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%HOWARD JAMES TAXPAYERS ASSN: $200 → 12%US ENGLISH: $100 → 14%PATHWAYS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%PATHWAYS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%STANFORD RADIATION: $2k → 8%STANFORD RADIATION: $2k → 8%STANFORD RADIATION: $2k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY CANTOR ARTS: $2k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY CANTOR ARTS: $2k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY CANTOR ARTS: $1k → 8%POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $500 → 8%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30k · 15 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
4

Total granted

$30k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+26%

Still filing today

53%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +133%
  • CS
    CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +46%
  • SH
    SAGE HILL SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • OS
    OPERATION SMILE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +26%
  • SA
    ST ANTHONY's PADUA DINING ROOM
    one grant, 2019 · $500
  • EH
    ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +32%
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
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
2
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.

—
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
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
5
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
6
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
9
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.

—
10
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
11
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
12
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Legal Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $17,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR U…CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATIONSAGE HILL SCHOOL: $3,000 · EducationSAGE HILL SCHOOL+1 more: $500 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTANFORD UNIVERSITY CANTOR ARTS: $5,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY CANTOR ARTSPATHWAYS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $3,750 · OtherPATHWAYS HOSPICE FOUNDATIONNATL MED OF HONOR FDN: $2,000 · OtherNATL MED OF HONOR FDN+6 more: $2,500 · Other+6 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $350 · Public BenefitPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $750 · PhilanthropyOPERATION SMILE INC: $500 · InternationalMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $500 · Arts & Culture
Education$23,500Other$19,250Youth Development$4,000Public Benefit$850Philanthropy$750International$500Arts & Culture$500

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Leland and Kathleen Kaiser Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leland and Kathleen Kaiser 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 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.

    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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