· Private foundation
The Boswell-Kennett Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERISTY OF MISSOURI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| MARIN ART & GARDEN CENTER | $36,638 |
| WESTIMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,088 |
| LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE | $10,000 |
| MANDOS MISSION | $5,000 |
| SUMMER SEARCH | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| K9REUNITE | $500 |
| MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MARIN ACADEMY | $500 |
| MARK DAY SCHOOL | $500 |
| THE WEST POINT INN ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| ADOPT A FAMILY | $250 |
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 (FY19–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- MAMARIN ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $298k · revenue +67%
- MAMarin Art and Garden Center5× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +81%
- LTLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SJST JOHNS COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $40k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $40k
- TDThe Diocese of Californiaone grant, 2018 · $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.
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The organization's mission is to represent the ethical members of the rental housing industry in all aspects of government affairs within the state of california, and to provide information, products and services which contribute to the…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Passionately deliver relevant products, services, and education tailored to help our members, employees, and communities achieve their financial goals.
To be the destination for health and healing in the north bay.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The marin council of the boy scouts of america, a california nonprofit public benefit corporation, is chartered by the boy scouts of america to promote the scouting program in marin county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 MARIN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Marin Art and Garden Center ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kanakuk Ministries ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MANDOS MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARK DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds MARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST POINT INN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Adopt A Family ↗
- Who funds Remake ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Boswell-Kennett Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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