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The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$467k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

61% of The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

11
’20
7
’21
7
’22
9
’23
9
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$1.8MFood & Nutrition$138kEducation$95kReligion$88kEnvironment$75kHuman Services$50kCommunity Improvement$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $402k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Friends of Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism$50,000
New Israel Fund$35,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds$20,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds$20,000
Friends of the Daniel Centers for Progressive Judaism$20,000
American Friends of Ogen$20,000
American Friends of Leket Israel$18,310
New Israel Fund$17,500
PEF Israel Endowment Funds$15,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds$15,000
American Friends of Leket Israel$15,000
Netzach Educational Network$15,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds$15,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds$15,000
PEF Israel Endowment Funds$15,000
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 (FY22–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%American Friends of ELI: $10k → 7%American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro: $8k → 17%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

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$783k · 10 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$783k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+8%

Still filing today

90%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FO
    Friends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism
    4× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue +129%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $138k · revenue +101%
  • THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $83k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • AF
    American Friends of the IACC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AG
    AMERICA GIVES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +216%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ROOTS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -18%
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
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
2
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Israel Organizations Inc

Funding of organizations qualified under section 501(c) or equivalent as operating for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or that would so qualify based on the nature of such organization's operations

International
7
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
8
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
9
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
10
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
11
Us Israel Education Fund Inc
—
12
Israel Initiative 2020 Inc
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Sustainability Laboratory Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 25 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $986,381 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $138,310 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC+2 more: $17,000 · PhilanthropyNEW ISRAEL FUND: $488,500 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDFriends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism: $225,000 · InternationalFriends of the Israel Movement for Progr…THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $82,500 · InternationalTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC+4 more: $60,000 · International+4 moreFRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM: $80,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of IACC: $40,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of the IACC: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ROOTS: $10,000 · OtherBNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · OtherNLI USA INC: $57,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LTD: $22,500 · EducationNetzach Educational Network Inc: $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $65,000 · EnvironmentThe Sustainability Laboratory Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC: $55,000 · Community ImprovementELI-AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $10,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesFriends of Ethiopian Jews Inc: $7,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,141,691International$856,000Other$163,000Education$95,000Environment$75,000Community Improvement$55,000Human Services$25,000

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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $986,381 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $488,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism: $225,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $138,310 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $82,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM: $80,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $65,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNLI USA INC: $57,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LTD: $22,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TENUFA BAKEHILA: $17,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNetzach Educational Network Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROOTS: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Sustainability Laboratory Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELI-AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Ethiopian Jews Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,000 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Fede…Nash Family FoundationJewish Federation of …Shirley & William R F…Seed the Dream Founda…The Jewish Federation…Associated Jewish Cha…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…
Jewish Communal FundNY23× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Nash Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Shirley & William R Fleischer Family Foundation Inc · Seed the Dream Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc 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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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