· Private foundation
Sgt Kay Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
70% of Sgt Kay Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Sgt Kay Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $265k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k11 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAX VALUES FUND | $225,000 |
| SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FUNHOUSE COMMONS | $6,000 |
| HEROES AND HORSES | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARIOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS & VETS HELPING PETS | $3,000 |
| BIG TIMBER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $3,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $3,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| KINDERING | $2,000 |
| ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CDCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +36%
- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +229%
- CPCAL POLY CORPORATION3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- MVMAX VALUES FUNDone grant, 2020 · $225k
- SFSHEEPHERDER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- PPCCFone grant, 2025 · $18k
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.
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
To sustain, defend and provide the means to preserve the individual constitutional rights of all washingtonians, including freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of movement, due…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
How this is measured
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 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS & VETS HELPING PETS INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MELVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BACON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MONO COUNTY SHERIFF SEARCH & RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sgt Kay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sgt Kay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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