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The David M Kies Family Foundation at a glance

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The David M Kies Family 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.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$33k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$165kArts & Culture$121kCommunity Improvement$65kEducation$34kReligion$33kFood & Nutrition$10kInternational$7k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$4,370
Median grant
1
States reached
$473k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Friends of the Musee dOrsay$32,900
Lupus Research Alliance$17,500
Larchmont Temple$4,370
The Emelin Theatre$1,000
Indego Africa Project$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 (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 its 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
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$469k · 8 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$469k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-29%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $183k · revenue -59%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $147k · 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%
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
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
2
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
3
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
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
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
6
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
7
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
8
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
9
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
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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

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 18 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $182,500 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC+1 more: $100 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $147,400 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSA…+3 more: $7,210 · Arts & CultureCommunity Resource Center: $65,200 · OtherCommunity Resource CenterHaverford College: $30,000 · OtherHaverford CollegeLARCHMONT TEMPLE INC: $24,164 · OtherLARCHMONT TEMPLE INCLARCHMONT AVENUE CHURCH: $13,000 · OtherLARCHMONT AVENUE CHURCHHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionNEW ISRAEL FUND: $5,000 · InternationalINDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $500 · InternationalOberlin College: $2,000 · EducationROCKING THE BOAT INC: $500 · EducationUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC: $500 · EducationMAMARONECK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Health$182,600Arts & Culture$154,610Other$132,364Food & Nutrition$10,000International$5,500Education$3,500Human Services$2,000

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 budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $182,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $147,400 over 6y, 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: $4,500 over 3y, 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 budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAMARONECK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundFarris Family Foundat…The New York Communit…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 The David M Kies Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David M Kies Family 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%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, 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 18 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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