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$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$13MScience & Tech$1.6MEducation$1.2MYouth Development$140kHuman Services$60kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 38 grants below total $2,620,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,060,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $440,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $2.5M
$70,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Colorado Denver$80,000
Regents University of California San Francisco$80,000
University of Alabama Birmingham$80,000
Augusta University Research Institute$80,000
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute$80,000
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute$80,000
Mayo Clinic$80,000
Mayo Clinic$80,000
State of Maryland - University of Maryland Baltimore$80,000
State of Maryland - University of Maryland Baltimore$80,000
Regents of the University of Colorado$80,000
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute$80,000
University of Vermont and State Ag College$80,000
National Institutes of Health$80,000
Rutgers$80,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE: $100k → 15%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $80k → 16%Mayo Clinic: $260k → 9%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA RESEARCH: $80k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $120k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $80k → 16%MICHIGAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY: $80k → 14%University of Alabama at Birmingham: $160k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $205k → 5%University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute: $380k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $80k → 8%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $80k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 11%YALE UNIVERSITY: $140k → 12%Augusta University Research Institute: $80k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $80k → 9%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $80k → 10%University of Colorado: $287k → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 16%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY-ASRSP CASH MANAGEMENT: $80k → 14%Rutgers: $80k → 8%University of Vermont and State Ag College: $80k → 10%National Institutes of Health: $80k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $80k → 19%University of Arizona: $80k → 15%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $80k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $220k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF TX SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 14%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $80k → 12%Michigan Technological University: $80k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $240k → 16%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $80k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $80k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $190k → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 16%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - ASRSP CASH MANAGEMENT: $80k → 14%National Institutes of Health: $80k → 8%Johns Hopkins University: $80k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $80k → 15%MAYO CLINIC: $120k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $240k → 16%Loyola University: $140k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTI: $220k → 16%University of Maryland Baltimore: $140k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INST: $160k → 16%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

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
KS
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $440k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$240k · 55% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$120k · 27% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

Middle East and North Africa$80k · 18% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 35 repeat orgs$682k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
10

Total granted

$12M
$522k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+77%

Still filing today

51%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +129%
  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    4× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +93%
  • EU
    Emory University
    4× · 2020–2025 · $306k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • CP
    CRITICAL PATH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +153%
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +82%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2017 · $80k

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.

1
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
10
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
11
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
12
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University and the most unlike its peers is Critical Path Institute. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 59 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%53%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%60%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/52
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,513

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.

04the grantee network

30 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
28/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $1,454,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $1,020,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $969,964 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMMAYO CLINIC — $611,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICKANSAS ATHLETICS INC — $480,000 · OtherKANSAS ATHLETICS INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE — $400,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTEUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center — $280,000 · Other+16 more — $1,876,548 · Other+16 moreMAYO CLINIC — $1,646,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $1,255,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CE…SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $201,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $160,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $160,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $160,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN — $160,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $160,000 · Health+5 more — $409,000 · Health+5 moreYale University — $1,400,000 · EducationYale UniversityThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $580,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowme…Emory University — $306,000 · EducationEmory UniversityLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $280,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $240,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT M…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $240,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $160,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $160,000 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $160,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $160,000 · Education+5 more — $399,125 · Education+5 moreNorthwestern University — $160,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$7,091,512Health$4,311,000Education$4,085,125Recreation & Sports$160,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC — $1,646,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $1,400,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $1,255,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $580,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University — $306,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $280,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $240,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $240,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $201,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $129,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Rogosin Institute Inc — $84,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY — $33,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Physiological Society — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds Yale University
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  • Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association
  • Who funds Emory University
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
  • Who funds Northwestern University
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds CRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE
  • Who funds The Rogosin Institute Inc

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.

American Heart Association IncTX17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Mayo Clinic · Yale University · Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation · Rheumatology Research Foundation · Breakthrough T1d · The George Washington University · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Washington University

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 PKD Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Yale University12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report 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, FY2025

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.

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 52 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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