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The John C Kish Foundation at a glance

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The John C Kish 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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$393k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$4.1MEducation$2.0MArts & Culture$1.9MHealth$1.9MYouth Development$1.8MAnimals$969kPhilanthropy$888kRecreation & Sports$607kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k56 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $393k
$20,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIAL CIRKISH FOUNDATION$393,070
UNLV FOUNDATION$170,000
BLUE BRIDGES INC$158,000
HILLTOP TABERNACLE CHURCH$150,000
WILSON UNIVERSITY$120,000
SMITH CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$100,000
BATTLEFIELD APOSTOLIC CHURCH$100,000
FIDELITY JESUS NAME CHURCH$100,000
BLUE HEART MINISTRIES$100,000
GRANDVIEW PENTECOSTAL CHURCH$100,000
PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
ACTS LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES$80,000
VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION$61,400
REBEL HOCKEY CLUB$54,000
PEOPLES HEALTH CLINIC$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KULTURE CITY: $1.0M → 16%NAVAJO STRONG: $25k → 8%KULTURE CITY: $175k → 16%NAVAJO STRONG: $25k → 8%KULTURE CITY: $140k → 16%KULTURE CITY: $53k → 16%THE ROAD HOME: $25k → 8%HELP OF SOUTHERN NV: $10k → 13%PEACE HOUSE: $25k → 5%THE INN BETWEEN: $30k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $25k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $3k → 8%PEACE HOUSE: $15k → 5%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 13%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $23k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $10k → 13%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
NM
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 84 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
64

Total granted

$14M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
0%

Still filing today

52%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $462k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsHealthEducationOther
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

  • SC
    SOCIAL CIRKISH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +62% · 84% of their budget
  • K
    KultureCity
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +302%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $744k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • FP
    FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF JENNING
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • PE
    PUBLIC ED FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • WP
    WORLDWIDE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $70k
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
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Utah Geological Foundation
—
3
Healthy Nevada
Health
4
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
—
5
Lightspark Foundation
Civil Rights
6
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
7
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
8
Utah Arts Alliance

To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.

Arts & Culture
9
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy
11
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
12
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Smith Center for the Performing Arts; the most unlike its peers is Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary. 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

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 176 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/79
Grantees still filing
46/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILLTOP TABERNACLE CHURCH: $1,067,996 · OtherHILLTOP TABERNACLE CHURCHBATTLEFIELD APOSTOLIC CHURCH: $881,300 · OtherBATTLEFIELD APOSTOLIC CHURCHBLUE HEART MINISTRIES: $300,000 · Other+130 more: $6,239,581 · Other+130 moreThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $555,000 · Arts & CultureThe Smith C…UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $212,500 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHO…BALLET WEST: $185,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTPark City Performances: $180,000 · Arts & CulturePark City P…Community Wireless of Park City: $180,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity W…NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $105,003 · Arts & CultureNEVADA BALL…ITALIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE: $77,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $180,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreKultureCity: $1,368,000 · Human ServicesKultureCityTHE INN BETWEEN: $57,500 · Human Services+7 more: $190,000 · Human Services+7 moreSOCIAL CIRKISH FOUNDATION: $1,592,074 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIAL CIRK…+2 more: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $744,000 · EducationWILSON UNIVERSITY INC: $360,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $45,000 · EducationPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $510,000 · PhilanthropyVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $253,535 · PhilanthropyJOYCE STRAUS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $80,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DARREN WALLER FOUNDATION INC: $74,425 · PhilanthropyMONDAYS DARK: $70,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $29,500 · PhilanthropyBLUES BRIDGE INC: $666,626 · AnimalsSAVE PEOPLE SAVE WILDLIFE: $75,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · Animals+4 more: $50,000 · Animals
Other$8,488,877Arts & Culture$1,674,503Human Services$1,615,500Youth Development$1,613,074Education$1,249,000Philanthropy$1,017,460Animals$841,626

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 budgetSOCIAL CIRKISH FOUNDATION: $1,592,074 over 5y, 84% of budgetKultureCity: $1,368,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $744,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $555,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $510,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWILSON UNIVERSITY INC: $360,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $253,535 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic: $225,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $212,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET WEST: $185,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPark City Performances: $180,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCommunity Wireless of Park City: $180,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUS SPEEDSKATING: $150,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetWORLDWIDE PENTECOSTAL FELLOWSHIP: $132,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $105,003 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $89,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJOYCE STRAUS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $80,000 over 5y, 80% of budgetINCLUSSION CENTER FOR COMMUNITY & JUSTICE: $80,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetITALIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE: $77,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetSAVE PEOPLE SAVE WILDLIFE: $75,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetTHE DARREN WALLER FOUNDATION INC: $74,425 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetMONDAYS DARK: $70,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $57,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetREBEL HOCKEY CLUB: $57,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBPS FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF SNOW CANYON STATE PARK: $55,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $52,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNevada Shakespeare Festival: $50,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetHIGH VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNavajoStrong: $50,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPeace House Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIBU Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetBJW MINISTRIES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS: $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSB DANCE: $30,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetUtah Aids Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds SOCIAL CIRKISH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KultureCity ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLUES BRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds APOSTOLIC GLOBAL MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds People's Health Clicnic ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
  • Who funds Park City Performances ↗
  • Who funds Community Wireless of Park City ↗
  • Who funds US SPEEDSKATING ↗
  • Who funds UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLDWIDE PENTECOSTAL FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Wynn Resorts Foundati…Vegas Golden Knights …Nevada Community Foun…Engelstad Family Foun…United Way of Souther…Mgm Resorts FoundationNV Energy Charitable …The Moonridge Foundat…Canarelli Family Foun…Mondays DarkThree SquareGeorge S and Dolores …
Wynn Resorts FoundationNV32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wynn Resorts Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Mgm Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The Moonridge Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Mondays Dark · Three Square · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles 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 John C Kish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John C Kish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The John C Kish Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The John C Kish Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 176 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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