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The Kansha 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.

$184k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Crime & Legal$387kEnvironment$172kInternational$144kCivil Rights$76kHealth$75kPhilanthropy$74kHuman Services$48kEducation$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
$1,250
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIN CASA$25,000
GRIP Training Institute$25,000
PROJECT AVARY$25,000
TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST$15,000
JOHN MUIR LAND TRUST$15,000
Omprakash$15,000
Audubon Canyon Ranch$10,000
Foundation for African Medicine and$7,500
Child Advocates of Nevada County$5,000
Sky's the Limit Fund$5,000
Child Advocates of Placer County$5,000
Pledge Health$5,000
Washoe CASA Foundation$5,000
American Clinicians Academy on Medi$3,500
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Child Advocates of Placer County: $7k → 6%Sky's the Limit Fund: $5k → 8%Miry's List: $6k → 14%The Afiya Center: $2k → 14%Child Advocates of Placer County: $5k → 6%Sky's the Limit Fund: $5k → 8%Eddy House: $3k → 10%Child Advocates of Placer County: $5k → 6%Sky's the Limit Fund: $5k → 8%Sky's the Limit Fund: $5k → 8%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$930k · 58 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
36

Total granted

$930k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+3%

Still filing today

74%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

  • GT
    GRIP TRAINING INSTITUTE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +227%
  • PA
    PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH
    7× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +162%
  • MC
    MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES
    6× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Courage Project
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -63%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -54%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
8
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
11
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
12
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Arts CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…Youth Sports ProgramsEquine Therapy ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%17%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%31%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%45%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/81
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,897

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.

04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 109 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/81
Grantees still filing
48/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRIP TRAINING INSTITUTE — $130,000 · Crime & LegalGRIP TRAINING INSTITUTEPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $110,075 · Crime & LegalPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES…MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES — $105,000 · Crime & LegalMARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE…Child Advocates of Nevada County — $16,500 · Crime & Legal+2 more — $10,500 · Crime & LegalImpact Charitable Denver Basic Inco — $59,000 · OtherImpact Charitable Denver Basic…MARK DAY SCHOOL — $20,500 · OtherMARK DAY SCHOOLAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION — $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONAFRICA YOGA PROJECT — $12,575 · OtherONE WORLD'S CHILDREN FUND — $11,108 · OtherThe Courage Project — $15,000 · OtherMARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Other+62 more — $142,755 · Other+62 moreJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust — $79,000 · EnvironmentJohn Muir Land Tr…AUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC — $45,000 · EnvironmentAUDUBON CANYON RA…TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $31,500 · EnvironmentTRUCKEE DONNER LA…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES…+5 more — $4,983 · EnvironmentOne World Childrens Fund — $40,000 · PhilanthropyOMPRAKASH INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $6,850 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $1,850 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC — $57,500 · InternationalPLEDGE HEALTH — $5,000 · International+2 more — $2,591 · InternationalWASHOE CASA FOUNDATION FKA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES — $16,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $15,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $10,300 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $3,750 · Civil Rights+3 more — $3,883 · Civil RightsSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND — $20,000 · Human ServicesCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter — $16,500 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $7,850 · Human ServicesMIRY'S LIST — $6,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $3,500 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSE — $3,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human Services
Crime & Legal$372,075Other$290,938Environment$170,483Philanthropy$68,700International$65,091Civil Rights$59,433Human Services$58,350

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGRIP TRAINING INSTITUTE — $130,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $110,075 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES — $105,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust — $79,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC — $57,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund — $40,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $31,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARK DAY SCHOOL — $20,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChild Advocates of Nevada County — $16,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWASHOE CASA FOUNDATION FKA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES — $16,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter — $16,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $10,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $7,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS — $7,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY OF AID-IN-DYING MEDICINE — $7,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $6,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD & ROSES PRESENTS — $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBONAFIDE INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetExtrafood — $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLEDGE HEALTH — $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN PLAY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC — $3,019 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $2,775 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLILLY AWARDS FOUNDATION INC — $2,523 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShadhika Project — $2,109 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tamarindo Foundation Inc — $2,091 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation — $1,785 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc — $1,730 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $1,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Leonard & Beryl Buck …Bothin FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…Harbor Point Charitab…The Fremont Group Fou…ImpactassetsincClif Family FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…
Marin Community FoundationCA33.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Bothin Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Harbor Point Charitable Foundation · The Fremont Group Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Clif Family Foundation · 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 The Kansha Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Kansha Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kansha 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 109 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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