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The Frank & Gertrude Kaiser Foundatation at a glance

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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.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$113kEducation$87kHealth$72kHuman Services$32kArts & Culture$28kEnvironment$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%BACKYARD PLAYERS AND FRIENDS: $2k → 6%RYAN PATRICK O'SHEA FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
CT
MO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$250k · 20 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +46% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
33

Total granted

$250k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+46%

Still filing today

70%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthEducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
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

  • HC
    HAPPY CAT INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue ×16
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +145%
  • GN
    GALLERY NORTH INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +357%

Funded once

  • MR
    MARINE RESOURCE ACC NY CONSERVATION
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • EM
    EAST MEADOW SOCCER CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +46%
  • NO
    NO ONE BURIED ALONE
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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 Animal Medical Center

Dedicated to providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and to leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education.

Animals
2
Feline Rescue of Staten Island Inc

Homeless felines and ultimately place them in a proper living situation in the hopes of avoiding new york city regulated euthanasia.

Animals
3
Pet's Miracle Network Inc
Animals
4
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
5
Pawsitively Curing Cancer Inc

Pawsitively curing cancer is dedicated to raising funds for pet cancer research.

Health
6
Lucky Lives Cat Rescue Corpporation
Animals
7
Bissell Pet Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Global Canine and Feline Rescue Association Inc

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…

Animals
9
The Jack Canine Foundation
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10
Feeding Homeless Felines Foundation
Animals
11
Catsnip Hawaii
Animals
12
Detective Wenjian Liu Foundation Inc

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 57 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANIMAL LIFELINE CORP INC: $14,500 · OtherANIMAL LIFELINE CORP INCLIFE FOR GINA FOUNDATION: $13,500 · OtherLIFE FOR GINA FOUNDATIONMARINE RESOURCE ACC NY CONSERVATION: $12,000 · OtherMARINE RESOURCE ACC NY CONSERVATION46TH STREET CLUBHOUSE: $9,500 · Other46TH STREET CLUBHOUSEPLACE OF SERENITY INC: $9,000 · OtherPLACE OF SERENITY INCEAST MEADOW SOCCER CLUB: $6,000 · OtherNO ONE BURIED ALONE: $6,000 · OtherHYDER TEEPU FUND: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherLONG BEACH CHRISTMAS ANGEL INC: $5,000 · OtherLMSARCOMA DIRECT RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+27 more: $44,600 · Other+27 moreHAPPY CAT INC: $36,000 · AnimalsHAPPY CAT INCNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $22,000 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE …ALL ABOUT CATS RESCUE: $17,000 · AnimalsALL ABOUT CATS RESCUETHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR T…PAW WARRIORS INC: $5,500 · AnimalsPAW WARRIORS INCRUFF HOUSE RESCUE INC: $4,500 · AnimalsTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $65,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO…PS 132 PA: $8,000 · EducationPS 132 PAMICHAEL D RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…The Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation: $6,000 · HealthThe Oxalosis …MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOA…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 · HealthGALLERY NORTH INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesBACKYARD PLAYERS & FRIENDS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesRYAN PATRICK O'SHEA FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $9,600 · Public Benefit
Other$135,600Animals$95,000Education$87,000Health$48,000Arts & Culture$23,000Human Services$11,000Public Benefit$9,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY CAT INC: $36,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGALLERY NORTH INC: $23,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALL ABOUT CATS RESCUE: $17,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetANIMAL LIFELINE CORP INC: $14,500 over 7y, 13% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $9,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budget46TH STREET CLUBHOUSE: $9,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetPS 132 PA: $8,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAST MEADOW SOCCER CLUB: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPAW WARRIORS INC: $5,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLMSARCOMA DIRECT RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUFF HOUSE RESCUE INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMICHAEL D RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetST NICKS ALLIANCE CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLOR ME CANCER FREE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetBACKYARD PLAYERS & FRIENDS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRANK MELVILLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRYAN PATRICK O'SHEA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOATUS FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANSIDE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC7.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Frank & Gertrude Kaiser Foundatation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank & Gertrude Kaiser Foundatation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 57 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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