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Kahle Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY | $3,000 |
| OPERA IDAHO | $3,000 |
| EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST | $3,000 |
| UNBOUND | $2,880 |
| ST MICHAEL'S CATHEDRAL BOISE | $2,000 |
| NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| TUNE IN TO NATURE ORG DBA BIRDNOTE | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| VERMONT PUBLIC | $1,000 |
| RICE ANNUAL FUND - MS 83 | $750 |
| ANTHROPOS ARTS | $750 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
42 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SVSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC6× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +7%
- OIOPERA IDAHO INC5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +7%
- ALAUSTIN LYRIC OPERA2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- PMPIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $3k
- IGINDIANA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -4%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
See Disclosure Above.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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 and Research
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Voters for Idaho Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 71 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 AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERA IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Tune In To Nature org ↗
- Who funds Anthropos Arts ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PUBLIC CO ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Friends of Idaho Public Television Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Moody Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Better Business Bureau · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bessemer Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Kahle Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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.
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