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S Irwin Kamin Foundation at a glance

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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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$62kEducation$43kRecreation & Sports$34kArts & Culture$13kHealth$8kCivil Rights$7kYouth Development$6kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$490k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK$5,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA$4,000
SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GOULD FARM: $3k → 12%TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA: $2k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 14%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $3k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $2k → 10%MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%VETERANS CRISIS FUND UMD: $5k → 11%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%GOULD FARM: $2k → 12%TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA: $2k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 14%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $2k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $2k → 10%MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%PRINCIPAL FUND FOR THE VETERANS CRI: $2k → 11%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%GOULD FARM: $1k → 12%TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA: $2k → 17%GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $2k → 9%ASOLO THEATRE INC: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $10k → 11%MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%GOULD FARM: $1k → 12%TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA: $2k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 14%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA: $7k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA: $6k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $3k → 11%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA: $5k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA: $5k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA: $4k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA: $4k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA INC: $3k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA: $3k → 9%HERMITAGE ARTIST RETREAT: $2k → 9%SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS: $4k → 9%SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS: $4k → 9%SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS: $3k → 9%SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS: $3k → 9%SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS: $2k → 9%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162k · 15 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$162k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+7%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +41%
  • The State College of Florida Foundation Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +68%
  • AT
    ASOLO THEATRE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +72%
  • VC
    VETERANS CRISIS FUND UMD
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • PF
    PRINCIPAL FUND FOR THE VETERANS CRI
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.

1
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

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.

Education
5
Maryland Institute

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.

Education
6
Augustana College

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…

Education
7
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

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…

Education
8
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

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…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Barton College

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…

Education
11
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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12
Sarah Lawrence College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Friendship Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA INC: $36,000 · OtherWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF SARASOTA INCUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $33,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC: $16,000 · OtherSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INCTEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA: $8,000 · OtherTEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIATHE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC: $8,000 · OtherTHE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INCTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 · OtherVETERANS CRISIS FUND UMD: $4,500 · Other+2 more: $4,000 · OtherThe State College of Florida Foundation Inc: $11,500 · EducationThe State College of F…RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $9,000 · EducationRINGLING COLLEGE OF AR…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND…GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationGALLAUDET UNIVERSITYMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOU…+1 more: $500 · EducationASOLO THEATRE INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureHermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $3,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $7,000 · Civil RightsSECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY: $6,000 · Human ServicesSELAH FREEDOM INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HEART HOMES INC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$115,300Education$34,500Arts & Culture$12,500Civil Rights$7,000Human Services$7,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

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 budgetSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe State College of Florida Foundation Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetITNSARASOTA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HEART HOMES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELAH FREEDOM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
  • Who funds ITNSARASOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HEART HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC ↗
  • Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗

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 Community Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …The Tillie Jennie & H…Msc Foundation IncCharles & Margery Bar…Swift Family Foundati…The Louis and Gloria …William G and Marie S…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 S Irwin Kamin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S Irwin Kamin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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