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The Kiita 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.

$866k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$448,940
Organizations funded a year
16 to 30
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Kiita Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalEnvironmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$780k18%
FY202322$752k27%
FY202222$675k27%
FY202127$612k41%
FY202022$554k5%
FY201930$579k57%
FY201817$316k65%
FY201716$180kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$993kPhilanthropy$573kHuman Services$441kFood & Nutrition$419kCrime & Legal$325kCommunity Improvement$218kYouth Development$152kAnimals$130kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
CA
CO
AZ
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 39 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Kiita Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Valley Food Bank: $403,779 over 6y, 13% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $385,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBloom365 Inc: $300,340 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetSocial Venture Partners Tucson: $237,000 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetNational Assistance Dogs Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetSupport My Club: $127,230 over 5y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $123,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWhitefish Legacy Partners Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetFeeding Matters Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetKent Denver Country Day School: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSounds Academy: $65,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Welcome to America Project: $45,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSteps of Love: $40,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNew Way Academy: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBalsz Community Education Foundation: $35,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetIntegrated Family Community Services: $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVilla Montessori Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStacy Fuson Foundation: $15,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree Arts for Abused Children of Arizona: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHatch: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEvery Child Reading: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetVista College Preparatory Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTreasures 4 Teachers Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetColibri Center for Human Rights: $6,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRancho Feliz Charitable Foundation Inc: $5,686 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSoroptimist International of Whitefish: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetArizona Latino Leaders in Education: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRead Better Be Better: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClothes to Kids of Denver Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Museum of Phoenix: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrink Literacy Project: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDesert Botanical Garden Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $604 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ32.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Armstrong Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Burton Family Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Steele Foundation Inc · Fiesta Events Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Bob & Renee Parsons 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.

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How do I get to The Kiita Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kiita 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.

About The Kiita Foundation

How much does The Kiita Foundation give?
The Kiita Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $865,940 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Kiita Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (20%), Philanthropy (11%), Human Services (9%).
Who are The Kiita Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: North Valley Food Bank ($404k), Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($385k), Bloom365 Inc ($300k).
Does The Kiita Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Kiita Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Kiita Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, The Armstrong Family Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities.
Where is The Kiita Foundation based?
The Kiita Foundation is based in AZ.

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 74 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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