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Spirit of Kindness Foundation at a glance

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Spirit of Kindness 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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$16kAnimals$15kRecreation & Sports$10kEnvironment$8kCommunity Improvement$4kEmployment$4kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$680k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SISKIYOU HUMANE SOCIETY INC$5,000
MT SHASTA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC$3,500
SISKIYOU HUMANE SOCIETY INC$2,500
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHICO$2,000
SISKIYOU FOOD ASSISTANCE CORPORATION$2,000
SISKIYOU OPPORTUNITY CENTER$2,000
SISKIYOU OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE$1,000
PACIFIC CREST MUSIC$1,000
CALIFORNIA CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC$1,000
GREAT NORTHERN SERVICES$1,000
RED SCARF SOCIETY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CALIFORNIA CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 10%SISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $1k → 16%SISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $1k → 16%RED SCARF SOCIETY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $500 → 16%RED SCARF SOCIETY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $400 → 16%SISKIYOU FOOD ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $2k → 16%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56k · 11 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$56k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+18%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • SH
    SISKIYOU HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +54%
  • SO
    SISKIYOU OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +119%
  • RS
    RED SCARF SOCIETY FOR THE PERFORMIN ARTS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $900 · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • CT
    CALIFORNIA TROUT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +18%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Siskiyou Gardens Parks and Greenways Association

Providing for the health and well-being of our community by connecting people to the land through parks, native plants and habitats, community gardens, and restoration projects in Siskiyou County.

Environment
2
Siskiyou Land Conservancy

The Siskiyou Land Conservancy is a state and federally approved non-profit organization that assists landowners who want to protect the natural values of their land, either through purchase or establishment of conservation easements.

Environment
3
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
4
Shasta Land Trust

Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california. currently shasta land trust holds conservation easements that permanently protect about 66,000 acres of land.

Environment
5
Siskiyou Community Food Bank

We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.

Food & Nutrition
6
Fire Safe Council of Siskiyou County

The fire safe council-siskiyou county is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to improve wildire safety through public education and demonstration wildire fuel reduction projects.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Mt Shasta Community Resource Center

The Mt. Shasta Community Resource Center is a community-based, non-profit 501c3 organization that offers a wide range of services to improve the health and wellbeing of the community. One of several Family/Community Resource Centers in…

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8
Sierra Streams Institute

To promote community stewardship and advance scientific knowledge of watersheds through reserarch, monitoring and education for the benefit of the Sierra Nevada region and beyond.

Environment
9
Stewards of the Sequoia

Promoting Responsible Recreation and Environmental Stewardship

Environment
10
Siskiyou Community Services Council

The csc rovided leadership to identify resources, build capacity and maximize collaborative efforts to support healthy families and vibrant communities.

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11
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc

CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.

Unclassified
12
Siskiyou Credit Union

Siskiyou Credit Union is a Non-Profit Financial Cooperative That Provides Services For Their Members Including Savings And Loans. The Mission Of The Credit Union Is To Charge The Least In Their Loans And Pay The Most For Deposits To Its…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Siskiyou Community Resource Collaborative; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Crest Music. 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

14 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. 14 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
4/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SISKIYOU LAND TRUST: $7,500 · OtherTHE SISKIYOU LAND TRUSTMt Shasta Museum Association DBA Sisson Museum: $7,500 · OtherMt Shasta Museum Association DBA Sisson Mus…MOUNT SHASTA TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 · OtherMOUNT SHASTA TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHICO: $4,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHICOSISKIYOU HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $13,050 · AnimalsSISKIYOU HUMANE SOCIETY INCCALIFORNIA TROUT INC: $2,000 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA TROUT INCSISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $2,000 · Human ServicesSISKIYOU C…Siskiyou Food Assistance Corporation: $2,000 · Human ServicesSiskiyou F…California Children and Families Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesCalifornia…RED SCARF SOCIETY FOR THE PERFORMIN ARTS: $900 · Human ServicesRED SCARF …SISKIYOU OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSISKIYOU …Great Northern Services: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterSISKIYOU OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $4,000 · EmploymentPacific Crest Music: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · Health
Other$24,000Animals$15,050Human Services$5,900Recreation & Sports$5,000Housing & Shelter$4,000Employment$4,000Arts & Culture$3,000Health$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 budgetSISKIYOU HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $13,050 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SISKIYOU LAND TRUST: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMt Shasta Museum Association DBA Sisson Museum: $7,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSISKIYOU OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT SHASTA TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGreat Northern Services: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSISKIYOU OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA TROUT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSiskiyou Food Assistance Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Children and Families Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

Community Foundation …The Ford Family Found…Marin Community Found…Dignity HealthDonor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of the North StateCA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the North State · The Ford Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Dignity Health · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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