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Little-Kittinger Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF CATHOLIC HEALTH (MT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION) | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - WNY | $8,000 |
| MAINSTREET UPTOWN BUTTE INC | $5,000 |
| MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| CUNDY'S HARBOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - ME | $5,000 |
| QUAHOG BAY CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| MONTANA LAND RELIANCE | $3,500 |
| HOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| WESTERN NEW YORK HERITAGE PRESS INC | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,500 |
| OREGON PARKINSONS WARRIORS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TMTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +248%
- DUDAEMEN UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
- MUMainstreet Uptown Butte Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +238%
Funded once
- EMEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +37%
- BSBUFFALO SEMINARYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +52%
- PFPLUMAS FIRE SAFE COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $4k
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 mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…
Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.
Genesee Land Trust preserves and protects natural lands and waterways that enhance the quality of life in the Greater Rochester region - providing wildlife habitat, locally grown food, and connections to nature.
The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…
Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
To acquire, protect, and manage open space in perpetuity for the benefit of wildlife and the community.
To conserve for the public benefit natural habitat, scenic beauty, and working land of the Boothbay region of Maine by providing stewardship, public access, and environmental programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western New York Heritage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harpswell News. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 45 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 WESTERN NEW YORK HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mainstreet Uptown Butte Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Quahog Bay Conservation ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Montana Wild Wings Recovery Center ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP ↗
- Who funds CUNDY'S HARBOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Harpswell Heritage Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Harpswell News ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PLUMAS WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OREGON PARKINSON'S WARRIORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SEMINARY ↗
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The Baird Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Nfada Charitable Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · Rich Family 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 Little-Kittinger Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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