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The Kestrel 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $219k
- $250k+1 grant · $665k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLOUDBREAK INC | $665,000 |
| NORTHWEST CT LAND CONCERVANCY | $42,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $20,000 |
| UNHCR | $20,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $20,000 |
| STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| WASHINGTON PARK FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| PILOBOLUS | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND | $10,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE INC | $10,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| STORM KING ART CENTER | $10,000 |
| JERICHO PROJECT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +60% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 7 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $676k 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
- JPJERICHO PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +350%
- TFTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $323k · revenue +72%
- WAWASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $271k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- BJBEEHOUSE JUSTICE INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -80% · 100% of their budget
- SKSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue +39%
- TTTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +94%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The greenwich tree conservancy is open to all interested citizens, governed by a board and advised by an advisory board. it was created to preserve and enhance the tree and forest resources of greenwich, ct to benefit the community, its…
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
Conserving the land. connecting the community. greenwich land trust conserves open space, connects our community with the natural world, and inspires the next generation of conservationists. the land trust permanently protects and cares…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Swanson Family 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 133 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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JERICHO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Western Connecticut Health Network Inc ↗
- Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds BEEHOUSE JUSTICE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PILOBOLUS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Washington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation 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: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Wenden Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charles & Jane Klein Family Fund · The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation · H & L Family Foundation Inc · Dungannon Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Fjc · The Stairway Fund · Rene Bloch 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 Kestrel 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.
- Washington Community Housing Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Washington Art Association Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- After School Arts Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
- South Kent School Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project 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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