· Private foundation
The Frank & Gertrude Kaiser Foundatation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| HAPPY CAT INC | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| LMSARCOMA DIRECT RESEARCH FOUND | $5,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR | $5,000 |
| LIFE FOR GINA FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| ANIMAL LIFELINE INC | $3,000 |
| COAST GUARD FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ASPCA | $1,500 |
| PAW WARRIORS INC | $1,500 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SPCA INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +50% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- HCHAPPY CAT INC4× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue ×16
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +145%- GNGALLERY NORTH INC6× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +357%
Funded once
- MRMARINE RESOURCE ACC NY CONSERVATIONone grant, 2018 · $12k
- EMEAST MEADOW SOCCER CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +46%
- NONO ONE BURIED ALONEone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
Dedicated to providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and to leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education.
Homeless felines and ultimately place them in a proper living situation in the hopes of avoiding new york city regulated euthanasia.
Pawsitively curing cancer is dedicated to raising funds for pet cancer research.
We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…
The foundation's mission embodies the character and values of detective wenjian liu, a new york police department detective who was shot and killed in the line of duty in a marked patrol car in december 2014. the foundation strives to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Frank Melville Memorial Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 57 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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds HAPPY CAT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GALLERY NORTH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALL ABOUT CATS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LIFELINE CORP INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 46TH STREET CLUBHOUSE ↗
- Who funds PS 132 PA ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EAST MEADOW SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds The Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation ↗
- Who funds PAW WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds LMSARCOMA DIRECT RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds RUFF HOUSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL D RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST NICKS ALLIANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLOR ME CANCER FREE INC ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD PLAYERS & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RYAN PATRICK O'SHEA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Frank & Gertrude Kaiser Foundatation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.