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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Omprakash$15,000
JOHN MUIR LAND TRUST$15,000
TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST$15,000
Audubon Canyon Ranch$10,000
Foundation for African Medicine and$7,500
Sky's the Limit Fund$5,000
Washoe CASA Foundation$5,000
Pledge Health$5,000
Child Advocates of Nevada County$5,000
Child Advocates of Placer County$5,000
American Clinicians Academy on Medi$3,500
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM$2,500
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 (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. Its 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
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
ID
IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
KS
SC
DC
AL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

+68%
+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
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

  • 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

  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -66%
  • TC
    The Courage Project
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +37%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 109 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/81
Grantees still filing
48/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $16,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWASHOE CASA FOUNDATION FKA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $16,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $10,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND 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 budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 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 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 budgetTRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation: $1,785 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $1,730 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $1,650 over 9y, 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.

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.

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

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 Kansha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kansha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 109 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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