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Little-Kittinger Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$118kHuman Services$85kArts & Culture$81kPublic Safety & Disaster$74kEducation$54kHealth$39kHousing & Shelter$39kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMPASS HOUSE: $10k → 13%COMPASS HOUSE: $7k → 13%COMPASS HOUSE: $5k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $5k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $3k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $3k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $1k → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$541k · 33 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
8

Total granted

$541k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+37%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TM
    THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +248%
  • DU
    DAEMEN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
  • MU
    Mainstreet Uptown Butte Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +238%

Funded once

  • EM
    EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +37%
  • BS
    BUFFALO SEMINARYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +52%
  • PF
    PLUMAS FIRE SAFE COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
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
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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2
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
3
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

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…

Environment
4
Wallowa Land Trust

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.

Environment
5
Genesee Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
6
30 Mile River Watershed Association

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…

Environment
7
Flathead Land Trust

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…

Environment
8
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
9
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
10
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture
11
Fallbrook Land Conservancy

To acquire, protect, and manage open space in perpetuity for the benefit of wildlife and the community.

Environment
12
Boothbay Region Land Trust

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western New York Heritage Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 45 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $58,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $36,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSETHE SALVATION ARMY: $33,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAMERICAN RED CROSS - WNY: $29,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - WNYMainstreet Uptown Butte Inc: $24,000 · OtherMainstreet Uptown Butte IncAMERICAN RED CROSS - ME: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - MEBUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $15,000 · OtherN A R D I N ACADEMY: $15,000 · OtherABBIE SHELTER: $11,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $11,000 · OtherMontana Wild Wings Recovery Center: $14,500 · Other+12 more: $63,000 · Other+12 moreTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $25,500 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND…Quahog Bay Conservation: $19,000 · EnvironmentQuahog Bay Conse…FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST: $15,000 · EnvironmentFEATHER RIVER LA…SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP: $11,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA BUTTES TR…Harpswell Heritage Land Trust: $9,000 · EnvironmentHarpswell Herita…FRIENDS OF PLUMAS WILDERNESS: $8,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF PLUMA…WESTERN NEW YORK HERITAGE INC: $29,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN NEW Y…HOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,250 · Arts & CultureHOLBROOK COMM…Harpswell News: $8,750 · Arts & CultureHarpswell New…PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION: $5,500 · Arts & CulturePLUMAS COUNTY…Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Public …EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORE & MOR…OREGON PARKINSON'S WARRIORS FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Arts & CultureOREGON PARKIN…KALICO ART CENTER: $3,500 · Arts & CultureCOMPASS HOUSE: $22,000 · Human ServicesCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDAEMEN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationBUFFALO SEMINARY: $4,000 · EducationMOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · HealthBUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK INC: $3,500 · HealthHARVEST HOUSE BUFFALO INC: $15,500 · Youth Development
Other$330,000Environment$88,000Arts & Culture$72,500Human Services$43,500Education$29,000Health$24,500Youth Development$15,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN NEW YORK HERITAGE INC: $29,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $25,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDAEMEN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMainstreet Uptown Butte Inc: $24,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSE: $22,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetQuahog Bay Conservation: $19,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE BUFFALO INC: $15,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMontana Wild Wings Recovery Center: $14,500 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOLBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,250 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP: $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCUNDY'S HARBOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $10,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHarpswell Heritage Land Trust: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHarpswell News: $8,750 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF PLUMAS WILDERNESS: $8,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSamaritan House Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION: $5,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON PARKINSON'S WARRIORS FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKALICO ART CENTER: $3,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Mother Cabrini Health…James H Cummings Foun…Tower Family Fund IncThe Western New York …The Margaret L Wendt …The Baird FoundationFirst Niagara Foundat…Buffalo Bills Foundat…Nfada Charitable Foun…The Frank G Raichle F…Rich Family Foundation
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY26.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Little-Kittinger Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Little-Kittinger Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Little-Kittinger Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Little-Kittinger Foundation Inc 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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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