· Private foundation
S Kann Sons Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LISNER-LOUISE-DICKSON-HURT HOME CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $20,000 |
| DC HISTORY CENTER | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY | $5,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $5,000 |
| A WIDER CIRCLE | $5,000 |
| FOOD AND FRIENDS | $5,000 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| MIRIAM'S KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| LISNER-LOUISE-DICKSON-HURT HOME | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
53 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +39%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC4× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +21%- JSJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- BLBIPARTISAN LEADERSHIP PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- DUDUKE UNIVERISTY LIBRARIESone grant, 2021 · $10k
- DDDOMENICO D MANICHELLO 529 COLLEGE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
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To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
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Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Phillips Collection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 67 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 A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA ↗
- Who funds Iona Senior Services ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Washington DC dba DC History Center ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Carl & Nancy Gewirz Fund Inc · George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc · Michael and Deborah Ratner Salzberg Family Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Posner-Wallace Foundation · The Tomares Family Foundation Inc · Adler Family Foundation Inc · Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc · The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family 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 S Kann Sons Foundation Inc 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Suburban Hospital Inc — 0% 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.