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Lucas Kaempfer 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.

$633k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.2MHuman Services$410kEducation$295kHealth$245kArts & Culture$186kInternational$136kEnvironment$113kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $388k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$200,000
Individual grant recipient$87,500
FOOD BANK OF NYC$50,000
BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION$50,000
SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL$40,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$25,000
ELUNA$25,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION$25,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS$25,000
NYU DAILY GIFT ACCOUNT$25,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE KAEMPFER FUND$25,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON DEAN'S EXCELLENCE FUND$25,000
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD$15,000
REAL ORGANIC FOOD PROJECT$10,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION THE JOEY FUND$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $530k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $50k → 9%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK: $60k → 14%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK: $60k → 14%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK: $50k → 14%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK: $50k → 14%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK: $50k → 14%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $13k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $8k → 17%CAPITAL CLUBHOUSE INC: $25k → 14%CAPITAL CLUBHOUSE INC: $25k → 14%CAPITAL CLUBHOUSE INC: $25k → 14%CAPITAL CLUBHOUSE INC: $5k → 14%SOUL TRAK OUTDOORS: $30k → 14%SOUL TRAK OUTDOORS: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Lucas Kaempfer Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Lucas Kaempfer Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 28 repeat orgs$645k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
14

Total granted

$2.4M
$450k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+14%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $725k · revenue +76%
  • SB
    SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $270k · revenue +66%
  • CC
    Capital Clubhouse Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • 2R
    24 RECIPIENTS NAMES AND ADDRESSES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2021 · $93k
  • 3R
    38 RECIPIENTS NAMES AND ADDRESSES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2019 · $71k
  • 2R
    27 RECIPIENTS NAMES AND ADDRESSES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2020 · $60k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
2
Freshfarm Markets

Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…

Food & Nutrition
3
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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4
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
5
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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The Dc Central Kitchen Inc

We use food as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds, and build communities. dcck prepares people facing high barriers to employment for culinary careers, and creates jobs for our graduates through innovative programs that expand…

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Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
8
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
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Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
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We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
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Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
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The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Table Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr20%18%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr14%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr20%7%20–35yr14%57%35–55yr14%16%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
11%
4,396/39,601

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.

05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $725,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCDc Food Project — $60,000 · Food & NutritionDc Food ProjectFeeding America — $55,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INCARCADIA FOOD INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionIndividual grant recipient — $112,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient24 RECIPIENTS NAMES AND ADDRESSES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST — $92,500 · Other24 RECIPIENTS NAMES AND ADDRESSES AVAI…THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $85,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE AR…CASA — $80,000 · OtherCASASOME INC — $75,000 · OtherSOME INC38 RECIPIENTS NAMES AND ADDRESSES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST — $70,600 · Other38 RECIPIENTS NAMES AND ADDRESSES AVAI…27 RECIPIENTS NAMES AND ADDRESSES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST — $60,350 · Other27 RECIPIENTS NAMES AND ADDRESSES AVAI…Individual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherHORTON'S KIDS INC — $40,000 · OtherBOWDOIN COLLEGE KAEMPFER FUND — $37,130 · OtherFriends of Anacostia Park — $40,000 · OtherLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES — $40,000 · Other+13 more — $229,500 · Other+13 moreSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC — $270,000 · Human ServicesSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWO…Capital Clubhouse Inc — $80,000 · Human ServicesCapital Clubhouse I…Soul Trak Outdoors — $60,000 · Human ServicesSoul Trak OutdoorsURBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesURBAN SCHOOL FOOD A…BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE M…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSave The Children Federation Inc — $75,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $65,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $28,200 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $25,000 · InternationalTreedom for All Corporation — $7,500 · InternationalNew York University — $50,000 · EducationGENERATION HOPE — $40,000 · EducationSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL — $40,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP — $25,000 · EducationSPARK THE JOURNEY — $10,000 · EducationMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 · HealthELUNA FORMERLY THE MOYER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $82,500 · Community Improvement
Food & Nutrition$930,000Other$1,052,580Human Services$530,000International$200,700Education$200,000Health$125,000Community Improvement$82,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $725,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC — $270,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $82,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Clubhouse Inc — $80,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetSOME INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDc Food Project — $60,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSoul Trak Outdoors — $60,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetFeeding America — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNew York University — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARCADIA FOOD INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFriends of Anacostia Park — $40,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGENERATION HOPE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $28,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPARK THE JOURNEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTreedom for All Corporation — $7,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Philip L Graham Fund …Richard E & Nancy P M…Clark-Winchcole Found…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Lucas Kaempfer 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lucas Kaempfer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lucas Kaempfer 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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