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The Kaul Foundation at a glance

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The Kaul 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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$44kEducation$15kHuman Services$8kFood & Nutrition$8kInternational$6kHousing & Shelter$3kReligion$1kYouth Development$1k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$531k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION$5,000
SEVAORG$5,000
SHRINERS$5,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$2,500
OHIO UNIVERSITY$2,500
VETERANS COM PROJECT$2,500
OBERLIN COLLEGE$2,500
MERCERBURG ACADEMY$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 (FY20–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%THE SEEING EYE: $500 → 4%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%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

MN
IL
NY
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
KY
MD
TN
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 11 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$52k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+30%

Still filing today

55%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SE
    SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +77%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +78%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    4× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • PQ
    Paul Quinn Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • SI
    SAHAITA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +54%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
6
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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11
Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers

SPIE is an international nonprofit technical society dedicated to advancing scientific research and engineering applications of optical, photonic, imaging and optoelectronic technologies through its meetings, education programs and…

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12
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is Paul Quinn College. 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

19 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. 19 of the 34 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEVAORG: $6,000 · OtherSEVAORGSHRINERS: $5,000 · OtherSHRINERSMERCERBURG ACADEMY: $5,000 · OtherMERCERBURG ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOHIO UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · OtherOHIO UNIVERSITYVETERANS COM PROJECT: $2,500 · OtherVETERANS COM PROJECTIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCUNICEF - UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND: $2,000 · OtherUNICEF - UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND+7 more: $3,651 · Other+7 moreSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $18,500 · HealthSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USAST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCSAHAITA INC: $2,000 · HealthSAHAITA INCSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $2,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUNDA Breath of Hope Lung Foundation: $1,000 · Health+2 more: $1,000 · HealthPaul Quinn College: $5,000 · EducationPaul Quinn C…Oberlin College: $2,500 · EducationOberlin Coll…The Ohio University Foundation: $1,500 · EducationThe Ohio Uni…SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $4,500 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $500 · Food & NutritionSEVA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $1,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $500 · InternationalWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC: $500 · Human ServicesSisters of the Skies Inc: $515 · Youth Development
Other$33,651Health$30,000Education$9,000Food & Nutrition$5,000International$4,000Human Services$2,000Youth Development$515

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 budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $18,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPaul Quinn College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAHAITA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Breath of Hope Lung Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSisters of the Skies Inc: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN: $500 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Kaul Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kaul 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Kaul Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kaul 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 34 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home