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The Kent Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| ADVENT HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTRAL FLORIDA | $3,000 |
| PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ORLANDO HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| CUB SCOUT PACK 28 | $2,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE NEHEMIAH PROJECT | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC | $1,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +39%
- AFAdventHealth Foundation Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +86%
- OHOrlando Health Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +139%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +39%- FHFLORIDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IFITHACA FINE ARETS BOOSTER GROUPone grant, 2023 · $1k
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
The community foundation of the holland/zeeland area seeks to ensure that our community thrives today, tomorrow, and forever by building our community's endowment to support high impact charitable projects, helping donors achieve their…
Support of miami university
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of the university of florida. more specifically, the foundation is organized to…
Soliciting, receiving, and administering gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational, and charitable purposes all for the advancement of the university of west florida (uwf). to promote and support education and…
The university of north florida foundation, inc., which includes the alumni association and the osprey club, is a non-profit entity organized to provide financial support to the students and programs of the unf.
The foundation raises charitable funds from the public to provide support to the college through student scholarships, awards, and faculty support for academic extracurricular activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Harbor Springs Education Foundation. 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 35 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 PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Harbor Springs Library ↗
- Who funds VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEHEMIAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF HOMER INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Seniors First Inc ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triford Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Mps Foundation · Tom and Ellen Noneman Foundation Co Plante Moran Trust · Baiardi Family Foundation Inc · The Offield Family Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Frey Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Kent 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 Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida 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.
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