· Private foundation
S Irwin Kamin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK | $5,000 |
| SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS | $4,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA | $4,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE LAST OPPORTUNITY INC | $2,000 |
| ASOLO THEATRE INC | $1,000 |
| GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA | $1,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| SECOND HEART HOMES | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +41%
The State College of Florida Foundation Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +68%- ATASOLO THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +72%- VCVETERANS CRISIS FUND UMDone grant, 2020 · $5k
- PFPRINCIPAL FUND FOR THE VETERANS CRIone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Friendship Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Maryland Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds The State College of Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ITNSARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Swift Family Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 S Irwin Kamin 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.
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
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.