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· Private foundation
The David M Kies Family Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$100k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants
1
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.
Health$150kArts & Culture$89kHuman Services$67kFood & Nutrition$10kInternational$5kEducation$4kOther$59k
02FY2023 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $88k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$487k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Community Resource Center$30,000
- Lupus Research Alliance$30,000
- American Friends of the Musee dOrsay$28,000
- Larchmont Avenue Church$6,000
- Larchmont Temple$4,100
- Women's Refugee Commission$1,000
- The Emelin Theatre$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–23, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 14%. 3% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$361k · 7 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
9
Total granted
$361k
$21k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+21%
+57%
Still filing today
57%
89%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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 Alliance4× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue -28%- AFAmerican Friends of the Musee dOrsay4× · 2020–2023 · $86k · revenue +85%
- CRCommunity Resource Center3× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HCHope Community Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +150%
- NINew Israel Fundgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +90%
- KTKeen Theater Company Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +43%
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.
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New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
2
The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
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University of New Haven
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Education
4
New York Public Radio
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful, see schedule o.
Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art connects people from around the world (Continued in Schedule O)
Arts & Culture
6
New York City Center Inc
The 2022-2023 season has been momentous for new york city center. fresh off our previous celebratory reopening season, city center stood at a critical juncture where it would navigate a significant leadership transition and sweeping…
Arts & Culture
7
Georgetown University
Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.
Education
8
Apollo Theater Foundation Inc
The apollo theater is a commissioner and presenter; catalyst for new artists, audiences, and creative workforce; and partner in the projection of the african american narrative and its role in the development of american and global culture.
Arts & Culture
9
The Rockefeller University
A world-renowned center for research and graduate education.
Education
10
Wnet
Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.
Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Latin American Art
The museum of latin american arts expands knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american and latino art through its collection, ground-breaking exhibitions, stimulating educational programs, and engaging cultural…
Arts & Culture
12
The Jewish Museum
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret jewish art.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oberlin College. 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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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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
Health$150,000Arts & Culture$89,210Human Services$67,200Other$58,622Food & Nutrition$10,000International$5,000Education$3,500
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 Lupus Research Alliance ↗
- Who funds American Friends of the Musee dOrsay ↗
- Who funds Community Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Hope Community Services ↗
- Who funds New Israel Fund ↗
- Who funds Keen Theater Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds Women's Refugee Commission ↗
- Who funds The Emelin Theatre ↗
- Who funds Ubuntu Pathways ↗
- Who funds Mamaroneck Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds Rocking the Boat ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
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 FundNY13.9× 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 · Nancy L Goodman & Richard Goodman Foundation · Glff Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation 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
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: American Friends of the Musee dOrsay.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~25 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +85% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 270493043 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on American Friends of the Musee dOrsay, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 25 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The David M Kies Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The David M Kies Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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