· Private foundation
The Kbk 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $1,076,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| PROJECT BREAD | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| METRO HOUSING BOSTON | $40,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
| BOSTON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM | $10,000 |
| EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $5,000 |
| KENT DENVER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $575k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- STSPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +53% · 42% of their budget
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $850k · revenue +89%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2020–2025 · $575k · revenue +38%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Bread-the Walk for Hunger Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PINE MANOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Kbk Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.