· Private foundation
The Kassouf 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Doctors Without Borders | $2,000 |
| Mercy Ships | $1,000 |
| Southwest Indian Foundation | $600 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $500 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $400 |
| Boys Town | $400 |
| Heifer International | $300 |
| St Bonaventure Indian Mission | $250 |
| St Joseph's Indian School | $250 |
| International Funds for Animal Welf | $250 |
| AdoptaPlatoon | $250 |
| Covenant House | $250 |
| Jazz Angels | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| Oxfam | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
65 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +98%
Mercy Ships International8× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +114%- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home8× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +43%
Funded once
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +39%- MWMUTTS WITH A MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue -13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $250
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
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.
The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 95 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Jazz Angel Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
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- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kassouf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kassouf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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