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Lucas Kaempfer Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS$25,000
NYU DAILY GIFT ACCOUNT$25,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION$25,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE KAEMPFER FUND$25,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON DEAN'S EXCELLENCE FUND$25,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$25,000
ELUNA$25,000
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD$15,000
REAL ORGANIC FOOD PROJECT$10,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION THE JOEY FUND$5,000
02The need
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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 (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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
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SC
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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Lucas Kaempfer Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Lucas Kaempfer Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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%
+9%

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
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

  • 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
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.

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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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6
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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7
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Table Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 51 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSoul Trak Outdoors: $60,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetDc Food Project: $60,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetFeeding America: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetARCADIA FOOD INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGENERATION HOPE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Anacostia Park: $40,000 over 2y, 2.6% 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
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.

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.

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 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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