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Robert S & Grayce B Kerr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$241k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$8.9MHealth$353kPhilanthropy$339kAnimals$337kEducation$324kEnvironment$233kPublic Safety & Disaster$78kRecreation & Sports$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $920k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEXUS EQUINE$241,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART$195,000
MAKE-A-WISH OKLAHOMA$172,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$172,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART$140,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC$25,000
COMMUNITY SAFETY NETWORK$15,000
CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER$15,000
TETON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$15,000
TETON COUNTY LIBRARY$15,000
CLIMB - WYOMING$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC$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 (FY17–23, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $1k → 8%CARMEL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%JESUS HOUSE: $10k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%JESUS HOUSE: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $10k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $10k → 16%FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM: $2k → 16%AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM: $2k → 16%AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 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

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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 15% of Robert S & Grayce B Kerr Foundation’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.

Robert S & Grayce B Kerr Foundationlessmore 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 31 repeat orgs$450k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
51

Total granted

$10M
$435k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+7%

Still filing today

68%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalOther

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

  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.8M · revenue +83% · 30% of their budget
  • NE
    NEXUS EQUINE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $266k · revenue +80%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $187k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $101k · revenue +113%
  • PF
    PROTEZ FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue +42%
  • BA
    BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +31%

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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
3
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
4
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society

The cheyenne mountain zoological society owns and operates the cheyenne mountain zoo. a leader in conservation, captive breeding and animal care, the zoo connects people with wildlife and wild places through experiences that inspire…

Animals
7
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
8
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
9
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
10
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
11
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…

Animals
12
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is Jackson Hole Police K-9 Auxiliary. 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 backsteadyEquine Therapy ProgramsFaith-Based Social ServicesCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsAffordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Community Foundations
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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr13%30%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr13%31%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/59
the rest of the field
10%
543/5,258

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

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 87 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
52/56
Grantees still filing
37/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES — $8,806,215 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES+3 more — $82,000 · Arts & CultureMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA INC — $187,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WI…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $183,000 · OtherTHE NATUR…Individual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherIndividua…NATL COWBOY & WES HERITAGE MUSEUM — $41,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $39,500 · Other+46 more — $405,540 · Other+46 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $222,500 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $101,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $23,000 · PhilanthropyNEXUS EQUINE INC — $265,500 · AnimalsBOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB — $25,500 · Animals+7 more — $37,000 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $169,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationSt John's Health Foundation — $55,500 · HealthPROTEZ FOUNDATION — $51,000 · HealthTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $30,000 · HealthINTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $28,500 · Human ServicesJesus House Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesDress for Success Oklahoma City Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Human ServicesCITY RESCUE MISSION INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesHOPE CENTER OF EDMOND INC — $5,000 · Human Services+3 more — $5,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$8,888,215Other$931,040Philanthropy$346,500Animals$328,000Education$170,500Health$162,500Human Services$124,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES — $8,806,215 over 8y, 30% of budgetNEXUS EQUINE INC — $265,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $222,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA INC — $187,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $183,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $169,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $101,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $71,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation — $55,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPROTEZ FOUNDATION — $51,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $39,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAFETY NETWORK — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB — $25,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEDMOND MOBILE MEALS INC — $17,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJesus House Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDress for Success Oklahoma City Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE — $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOWING ROCK CHARITY HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY RESCUE MISSION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE CENTER OF EDMOND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET ANGELS RESCUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEPPERS RANCH INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON CUPBOARD — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Carmel Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR KITCHEN FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $1,000 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.

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.

Communities Foundatio…El and Thelma Gaylord…Oklahoma City Communi…American Fidelity Fou…Cresap Family Foundat…Inasmuch FoundationCommunity Foundation …Rainbolt Family Found…The Brooks FoundationHarris Foundation IncKirkpatrick Foundatio…Arvest Foundation
Communities Foundation of OklahomaOK27.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Rainbolt Family Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Arvest 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 Robert S & Grayce B Kerr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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

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How do I get to Robert S & Grayce B Kerr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert S & Grayce B Kerr Foundation 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 87 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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