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The David M Kies Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$165kArts & Culture$121kCommunity Improvement$65kEducation$34kReligion$33kFood & Nutrition$10kInternational$7k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$471k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Friends of the Musee dOrsay$29,000
Lupus Research Alliance$15,000
Larchmont Temple$4,272
The Emelin Theatre$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Women's Refugee Commission: $1k → 17%Women's Refugee Commission: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$413k · 8 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$413k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-29%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue -59%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +172%
  • CR
    Community Resource Center
    3× · 2020–2023 · $65k

Funded once

  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -20%
  • KT
    KEEN THEATER COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +28%
  • Oberlin College
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $165,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC+1 more — $100 · HealthCommunity Resource Center — $65,200 · OtherCommunity Resource CenterHaverford College — $30,000 · OtherHaverford CollegeLARCHMONT TEMPLE INC — $19,794 · OtherLARCHMONT TEMPLE INCLARCHMONT AVENUE CHURCH — $13,000 · OtherLARCHMONT AVENUE CHURCHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY — $114,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE D…+3 more — $6,210 · Arts & CultureHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionNEW ISRAEL FUND — $5,000 · InternationalOberlin College — $2,000 · EducationUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC — $500 · EducationMAMARONECK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $500 · EducationROCKING THE BOAT INC — $500 · EducationWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC — $2,000 · Human Services
Health$165,100Other$127,994Arts & Culture$120,710Food & Nutrition$10,000International$5,000Education$3,500Human Services$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $165,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY — $114,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMELIN THEATRE — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKEEN THEATER COMPANY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAMARONECK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Farris Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The David M Kies Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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