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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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$23kHuman Services$17kEnvironment$10kHousing & Shelter$7kHealth$6kPhilanthropy$5kEducation$4kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
18
States reached
$326k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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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.

area typical 10%Boys Town: $400 → 12%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $300 → 20%Christian Appalachian Project: $200 → 26%Boys Town: $400 → 12%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $200 → 20%Christian Appalachian Project: $200 → 26%Boys Town: $300 → 12%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $200 → 20%Christian Appalachian Project: $200 → 26%Boys Town: $300 → 12%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $200 → 20%Christian Appalachian Project: $150 → 26%Boys Town: $300 → 12%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $200 → 20%Boys Town: $300 → 12%Boys Town: $300 → 12%Boys Town: $250 → 12%Boys Town: $200 → 12%Boys Town: $200 → 12%Wayfinder Family Services: $200 → 14%Wayfinder Family Services: $25 → 14%AARP Foundation: $50 → 14%AARP Foundation: $50 → 14%Share Our Selves: $150 → 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

NH
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MN
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
NM
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX
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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$83k · 65 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
27

Total granted

$83k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+24%

Still filing today

69%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
InternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +98%
  • Mercy Ships International
    8× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +114%
  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +39%
  • MW
    MUTTS WITH A MISSION
    one grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue -13%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one 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.

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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
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
4
World Resources Institute

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…

International
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
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
7
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
8
Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech
9
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
10
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
11
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
12
National Forest Foundation

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…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
51/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Habitat for Humanity: $5,450 · OtherHabitat for HumanitySOUTHWEST INDIAN FOUNDATION: $5,339 · OtherSOUTHWEST INDIAN FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $3,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDeschutes Children Foundation: $3,050 · OtherDeschutes Children FoundationHeifer International: $2,250 · OtherCovenant House: $2,000 · OtherST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL: $1,850 · OtherFAMILIES FORWARD: $1,800 · OtherCompassion Choices: $1,675 · Other+43 more: $16,575 · Other+43 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCMercy Ships International: $5,100 · InternationalMercy Ships InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,175 · International+13 more: $5,000 · International+13 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,450 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $1,050 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $750 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $750 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $700 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $400 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $300 · Environment+2 more: $250 · EnvironmentFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $2,950 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $1,100 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $750 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services: $225 · Human Services+3 more: $400 · Human ServicesPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $600 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $575 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $300 · HealthParkinson Research Foundation Inc: $150 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $775 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $700 · EducationINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $500 · AnimalsMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $250 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $150 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $100 · Animals
Other$43,789International$27,275Environment$6,650Human Services$5,425Health$2,625Education$1,475Animals$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $5,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $2,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,175 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $1,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $825 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $775 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJazz Angel Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $575 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING: $400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINEQUALITY MEDIA: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson Research Foundation Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC ↗
  • Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
  • 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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report 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.

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 95 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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