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The KCS Pacific Foundation Inc

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.

$721k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$687kInternational$347kAnimals$341kEducation$163kHuman Services$71kHealth$15kCivil Rights$15kPhilanthropy$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $641k
$12,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE CONSERVANCY$150,000
YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE$150,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$100,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$90,533
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC$50,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$50,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC$50,000
SOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND$31,000
PANTHERA CORPORATION$12,000
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC$10,000
SOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND$9,000
PROJECT GRIPH$5,000
SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC$3,500
EARTH LAW CENTER$2,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $46k) 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.

area typical 9%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $13k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $4k → 12%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $15k → 17%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 12%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MT
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 21% of The KCS Pacific Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The KCS Pacific Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 22 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
20

Total granted

$1.4M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
AnimalsEnvironmentInternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $329k · revenue +84%
  • AW
    AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $209k · revenue +54%
  • YT
    YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON
    3× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS SERVICE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • TW
    THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%
  • OU
    OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Rainforest Trust

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

International
3
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
4
Wildaid Inc

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

Animals
5
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
6
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
7
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
8
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
9
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
10
Wild Landscapes Inc

Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…

Animals
11
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
12
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Service Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Food PantriesSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,520

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
35/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $209,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $150,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INCSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $40,000 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETYPANTHERA CORPORATION — $35,500 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORATIONWILD SALMON CENTER — $21,000 · Animals+9 more — $64,000 · Animals+9 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $329,218 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A N…+2 more — $3,000 · HealthYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON — $175,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE TO YUKONSOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND — $55,000 · EnvironmentSOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT…AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOU…SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC — $16,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $15,000 · Environment+4 more — $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $150,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSE…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS SERVICE CORPORATION — $15,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHO…OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC — $12,000 · OtherTHE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC — $9,500 · OtherGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC — $10,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION - WORLDWIDE INC — $10,000 · Other+7 more — $29,000 · Other+7 moreWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $77,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA F…CONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $75,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT…THE CONVERSATION US INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE CONVERS…SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $28,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesEARTH LAW CENTER — $42,500 · Social Science
Animals$519,500Health$332,218Environment$306,000Other$246,000Education$162,000Human Services$56,000Social Science$42,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $329,218 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $209,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON — $175,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $77,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND — $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEARTH LAW CENTER — $42,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION — $35,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $28,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER — $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC — $10,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNonhuman Rights Project Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION - WORLDWIDE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONVERSATION US INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Griph — $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRARE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER — $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Xcel Energy FoundationBenedict Family Found…The New-Land Foundati…Maki FoundationCommunity Foundation …PatagoniaorgThe Pfizer Foundation…The Robert Wood Johns…Shell USA Company Fou…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO19.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Benedict Family Foundation · The New-Land Foundation Inc · Maki Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Patagoniaorg · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The KCS Pacific Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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