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The K Foundation

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$4.8M
Granted FY2018
175
Grants FY2018
9
States reached
$441k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$1.3MReligion$1.1MAnimals$827kHealth$800kArts & Culture$765kHuman Services$604kHousing & Shelter$473kYouth Development$463kOther$0
02FY2018 · 175 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 175 grants below total $2,778,611, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,750,811 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,972,200 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k94 grants · $650k
  • $10k–50k76 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $354k
  • $250k+1 grant · $441k
$9,324
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON -HOUSTON$441,190
SHIR TKVAH CONGREGATION$120,348
FLAGS FOR FORT SNELLING$114,594
CURTAIN CALL INC$63,545
WILDLIFE IN CRISIS$55,174
SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS$48,678
MARTHA'S HOUSEINC$41,203
KALTREIDER-BENFER LIBRARY$35,690
STILL KICKIN$35,226
SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT$30,893
HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC$30,496
SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC$28,903
KIDS HELPING KIDS$28,540
SOS HEALTH CARE INC$28,536
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GEORGETOWN COUNTY$27,111
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 (FY17–18, $796k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $6k → 11%EASTERSEALS WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA-YORK: $9k → 11%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 13%NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP: $6k → 8%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $14k → 15%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $26k → 9%WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $8k → 9%ROBINS NEST CHILDRENS HOME: $6k → 6%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $12k → 6%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $12k → 16%HOUSE OF HOPE YORK PA: $20k → 9%PREPARE AND PROSPER: $38k → 14%COMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL INC: $6k → 9%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $6k → 14%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $7k → 9%WELLSTONE ACTION FUND: $6k → 14%CHELSEA PIERS CONNECTICUT YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $16k → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $18k → 9%THE GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%A FAMILY JOURNEY ADOPTION AGENCY: $16k → 11%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $6k → 9%THE CULTURED PEARL FOUNDATION: $7k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK: $6k → 9%IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICE: $6k → 14%LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC: $6k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $52k → 14%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $42k → 11%THE LINK: $10k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $31k → 14%SECOND STORK: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: $7k → 14%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%INTERACT CENTER FOR THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS: $11k → 14%AVIVO: $13k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $17k → 11%PAWSITIVITY SERVICE DOGS: $6k → 14%WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES: $7k → 14%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $9k → 11%PRISM: $12k → 11%FRASER: $8k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $7k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $11k → 11%CLARE HOUSING: $10k → 11%CLARE HOUSING: $8k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS- MINNEOTA: $41k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $61k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SAINT PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS: $56k → 11%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

ND
MN
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
SC
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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$463k · 17 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 152 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
332

Total granted

$463k
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+42%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • HI
    HUGE IMPROV THEATER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $76k · revenue +412%
  • I
    ISAIAH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $34k · revenue +101%
  • T
    TUBMAN
    2× · 2017–2018 · $34k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • AU
    AUGSBURG UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $193k · revenue +30%
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $168k · revenue +83%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $90k
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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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5
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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6
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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7
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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8
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
9
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
10
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
11
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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12
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Tigerlion Arts. 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

445 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. 445 of the 507 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
162
Early backer (in before they grew)
426/445
Grantees still filing
342/445
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GALVESTON- HOUSTON: $441,190 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GALVESTON- HOUSTONSHIR TIKVAH: $120,348 · OtherFLAGS FOR FORT SNELLING: $114,594 · Other+104 more: $2,566,377 · Other+104 moreYOUTHLINK: $61,115 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINKCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: $55,865 · Human ServicesCatholic Cha…UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $51,680 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL…SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $42,155 · Human ServicesSHARING AND …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,765 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…Prepare and Prosper: $38,141 · Human ServicesPrepare and …LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $30,973 · Human ServicesLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,510 · Human Services+18 more: $276,877 · Human Services+18 moreAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $192,973 · EducationAUGSBURG UN…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $40,159 · EducationUNIVERSITY …YINGHUA ACADEMY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $38,867 · EducationYINGHUA ACA…ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $32,483 · EducationST MARYS UN…NORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL: $30,287 · EducationNOVA CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $22,556 · EducationPrairie Creek Community School: $22,178 · Education826 MSP: $21,943 · EducationCologne Academy: $21,654 · EducationMISS RUBY'S KIDS: $19,128 · EducationLEGACY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $19,073 · EducationST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $19,070 · Education+6 more: $88,828 · Education+6 moreAnimal Humane Society: $77,853 · AnimalsAnimal Hum…WILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC: $55,174 · AnimalsWILDLIFE I…RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC: $47,117 · AnimalsRETRIEVE A…SAFE HANDS ANIMAL RESCUE: $38,510 · AnimalsSAFE HANDS…ANIMAL ALLIES HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $34,343 · AnimalsANIMAL ALL…COMO FRIENDS: $29,003 · AnimalsCOMO FRIEN…RUFF START RESCUE INC: $25,999 · AnimalsTRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,604 · AnimalsTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $23,080 · AnimalsLEG UP FARM INC: $21,441 · AnimalsWILDWOODS: $20,255 · AnimalsSAINT FRANCES ANIMAL CENTER: $19,568 · AnimalsMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $17,730 · Animals+6 more: $80,054 · Animals+6 moreMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $45,524 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE: $41,618 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $36,764 · HealthTUBMAN: $34,053 · HealthSAM SCHMIDT FOUNDATION: $24,002 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $22,802 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $17,023 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $16,865 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $16,190 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest: $15,056 · HealthRECLAIM: $14,786 · HealthAnnex Teen Clinic Inc: $14,375 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $13,139 · HealthMinnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc: $12,759 · HealthCURTAIN CALL INC: $63,545 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $48,678 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ON THE HILL INC: $23,678 · Arts & CultureYOUNG DANCE INC: $22,550 · Arts & CultureHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $21,449 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $20,732 · Arts & CultureThe Minnesota Opera: $17,233 · Arts & CultureMinnPost: $14,313 · Arts & CultureDowntown Cabaret Theatre of Bridgeport: $14,162 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $12,474 · Arts & CultureTHE MOVING COMPANY: $12,223 · Arts & CultureBreannas Gift: $11,917 · Arts & CultureFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $167,594 · InternationalALIGHT: $35,308 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $18,383 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,445 · International
Other$3,242,509Human Services$623,081Education$569,199Animals$515,731Health$324,956Arts & Culture$282,954International$233,730

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $167,594 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLAGS FOR FORT SNELLING: $114,594 over 1y, 52% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $90,145 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $77,853 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUGE IMPROV THEATER: $76,235 over 2y, 10% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $61,115 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: $55,865 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $54,128 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $53,776 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $51,680 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $51,050 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPTA MINNESOTA CONGRESS NATHAN HALE: $49,300 over 1y, 44% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $48,678 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC: $47,117 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $45,524 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $42,155 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE: $41,618 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $41,470 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,765 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $40,375 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $40,159 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYINGHUA ACADEMY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $38,867 over 1y, 49% of budgetSAFE HANDS ANIMAL RESCUE: $38,510 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetPrepare and Prosper: $38,141 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $36,764 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $36,542 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKALTREIDER-BENFER LIBRARY: $35,690 over 1y, 14% of budgetALIGHT: $35,308 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTILL KICKIN: $35,226 over 1y, 11% of budgetISAIAH: $34,422 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetANIMAL ALLIES HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $34,343 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC: $33,496 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $33,093 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS: $33,034 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $32,483 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $31,953 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEMN: $31,091 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $30,973 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $30,895 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC: $30,893 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL: $30,287 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMO FRIENDS: $29,003 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSMITH MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $28,903 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA: $28,829 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS HELPING KIDS INC: $28,540 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $28,527 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $27,741 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $27,529 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Pohlad Family Foundat…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Margaret a Cargill Fo…The Minneapolis Found…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustTarget FoundationThe Graco FoundationCatholic Community Fo…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Mightycause Charitabl…
Pohlad Family FoundationMN94.9× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pohlad Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Target Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 K Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The K Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Community Services Inc: 32% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Fairfield County Chorale Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Music On the Hill Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Curtain Call Inc: 0% of income from government
  • New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
60report 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 K Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The K 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 507 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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