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The Kidogo 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.

$108k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$145kHealth$135kFood & Nutrition$124kCrime & Legal$56kPhilanthropy$50kEducation$45kInternational$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
$10,210
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEVUS OUTREACH INC$30,000
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC$15,000
BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE$15,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$10,210
PHILABUNDANCE$10,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA$10,000
BAKER INDUSTRIES$7,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND: $55k → 7%CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $15k → 6%SHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $15k → 22%THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $15k → 10%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $25k → 17%NEVUS OUTREACH INC: $30k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $15k → 18%CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $15k → 6%BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $20k → 22%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $15k → 17%NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $20k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10k → 18%CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $13k → 6%BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $15k → 22%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $15k → 17%NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $15k → 14%CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 6%BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $15k → 22%THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $15k → 17%NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $15k → 14%CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 6%THE JOSEPH AND CAROLYN DEMARCO FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 22%THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $15k → 17%BAKER INDUSTRIES: $8k → 6%CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $10k → 17%BAKER INDUSTRIES: $8k → 6%PHILABUNDANCE: $12k → 22%CALDER FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%PHILABUNDANCE: $10k → 22%ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $25k → 17%PHILABUNDANCE: $10k → 22%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $25k → 17%GREATER PHILADELPHIA COALITION AGAINST HUNGER: $15k → 22%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.
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$375k · 8 repeat orgs$271k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$375k
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-19%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHealthInternationalCrime & LegalCivil RightsEducationOther
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

  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +53%
  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +39%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +85%
  • TJ
    THE JOSEPH AND CAROLYN DEMARCO FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +127% · 31% of their budget
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -40%
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
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
2
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Center for Science in the Public Interest

The center for science in the public interest is america's food and health watchdog. cspi envisions a healthy population with reduced impact and burden of preventable diseases and an equitable food system that makes healthy, sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Greater Chicago Food Depository

The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…

Food & Nutrition
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
10
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
11
The Alliance for Just Deliberation On Solar Geoengineering Inc

The alliance for just deliberation on solar geoengineering (dsg) is a charitable, scientific and educational organization dedicated to building just and inclusive deliberation about research and potential use of solar geoengineering. solar…

Environment
12
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Calder Foundation. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RES…BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $50,000 · HealthBLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH AL…NEVUS OUTREACH INC: $30,000 · HealthNEVUS OUTREACH INCCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $62,798 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY FOOD B…Philabundance: $31,654 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $15,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAMGREATER PHILADELPHIA COALITION AGAINST HUNGER: $15,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER PHILADELPHIA …NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENT…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES …BAKER INDUSTRIES INC: $15,000 · OtherBAKER INDUSTRIES INCCALDER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCALDER FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,210 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENT…EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $6,447 · OtherTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $15,000 · OtherTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDL…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $95,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR R…THE JOSEPH AND CAROLYN DEMARCO FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $25,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $45,036 · Education
Health$135,000Food & Nutrition$124,452Other$146,657Civil Rights$95,000Philanthropy$50,000International$50,000Education$45,036

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 budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $62,798 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOSEPH AND CAROLYN DEMARCO FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetBLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $45,036 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $31,654 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEVUS OUTREACH INC: $30,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PHILADELPHIA COALITION AGAINST HUNGER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBAKER INDUSTRIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALDER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $6,447 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.

The Philadelphia Foun…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Kidogo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kidogo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Kidogo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Kidogo 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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