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Special Kids Fund Inc

To raise funds for social service organizations, non-profit organizations, schools,and hospitals throughout the u.s.

$923k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$916kPublic Safety & Disaster$344kFood & Nutrition$245kInternational$242kAnimals$203kEnvironment$145kHuman Services$120kPhilanthropy$87kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $265,163, the rows itemized in this filing. The $923,223 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $658,060 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$7,655
Median grant
12
States reached
$548k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$70,355
ASPCA$24,821
AMERICAN RED CROSS$23,960
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$18,613
FEEDING AMERICA$18,358
CAMP HASC$18,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$15,153
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$15,141
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$7,655
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$7,344
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$6,948
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$6,412
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,825
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$5,767
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$5,533
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAND & PAW INC: $5k → 8%TECHNOLOGY FOR FAMILIES IN NEED: $18k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $58k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $55k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $41k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $39k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $37k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $31k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $24k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 28 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
20

Total granted

$2.2M
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+29%

Still filing today

93%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
InternationalHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $603k · revenue +40%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +46%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -40%
  • TF
    TECHNOLOGY FOR FAMILIES IN NEED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +548%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angelesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +34%
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
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
8
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
11
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
12
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

49 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. 49 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
39/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $602,667 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS …American Heart Association Inc: $175,081 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $91,354 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA…+3 more: $25,367 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $320,004 · Human ServicesAmerican National R…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $89,309 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PRO…TECHNOLOGY FOR FAMILIES IN NEED INC: $17,829 · Human Services+1 more: $5,292 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $54,642 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …Save The Children Federation Inc: $45,225 · InternationalSave The Child…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $42,588 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HU…MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS: $40,430 · InternationalMEDS & FOOD FO…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $36,922 · InternationalUNITED STATES …GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,220 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING F…WORLD VISION INC: $19,817 · InternationalWORLD VISION I…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $13,239 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $12,317 · International+4 more: $31,339 · International+4 moreTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $172,356 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $19,122 · AnimalsFeeding America: $140,832 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $17,421 · Food & NutritionBounty & Soul: $16,272 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $9,298 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,943 · Food & NutritionNational Sojourners Inc: $55,113 · OtherNational Sojourn…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $32,443 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORAT…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $13,327 · OtherCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $87,311 · OtherCOLUMBUS FOUNDAT…CAMP HASC INC: $48,508 · OtherCAMP HASC INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $16,190 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS: $15,136 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $13,699 · Other+11 more: $82,941 · Other+11 moreWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $116,239 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,184 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT NEXT INC: $5,051 · Environment
Health$894,469Human Services$432,434International$316,739Animals$191,478Food & Nutrition$189,766Other$364,668Environment$131,474

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 budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $602,667 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $320,004 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $175,081 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $172,356 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $140,832 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $116,239 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $91,354 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $89,309 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $87,311 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Sojourners Inc: $55,113 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $54,642 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HASC INC: $48,508 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $45,225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $42,588 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS: $40,430 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $36,922 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $32,443 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $19,817 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $19,122 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOLOGY FOR FAMILIES IN NEED INC: $17,829 over 1y, 18% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $17,421 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBounty & Soul: $16,272 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $16,190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS: $15,136 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $13,699 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $13,327 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $13,239 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $13,227 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $12,317 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,266 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,184 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE INC: $9,852 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $9,298 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND: $8,409 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR HIS CHILDREN: $7,812 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $7,138 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,974 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $6,784 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $6,230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $5,971 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $5,943 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $5,690 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHand & Paw Inc: $5,292 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $5,264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,235 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,166 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENT NEXT INC: $5,051 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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 US Charitable Gif…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
The US Charitable Gift TrustMA11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Special Kids Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Special Kids Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Special Kids Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Special Kids Fund Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 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 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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