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The Kaleidoscope Institute

The primary mission and purpose is totrain lay and ordained leaders of the church and other nonprofit entities to build missional and sustainable communities.

$250k
Granted FY2020
13
Itemized grants FY2020
13
Organizations funded FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$141k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$15,000
States reached, FY2020
5
Total assets, FY2020
$33k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mission Talk Inc$15,000111%
Wesley Foundation Serving Ucla$10,0001n/a
Ebenezer Church San Diego Inc$10,0001n/a
Ciudad Nueva Community Outreach In$8,00011%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

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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.

About The Kaleidoscope Institute

How much does The Kaleidoscope Institute give?
The Kaleidoscope Institute reported 13 itemized grants totaling $141,000, out of $250,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does The Kaleidoscope Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (70%), Religion (13%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are The Kaleidoscope Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Mission Talk Inc ($15k), Wesley Foundation Serving Ucla ($10k), Ebenezer Church San Diego Inc ($10k).
Where is The Kaleidoscope Institute based?
The Kaleidoscope Institute is based in CA.

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 13 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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