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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.
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 $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $126k
- $250k+1 grant · $449k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $448,940 |
| BLOOM365 | $70,000 |
| WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $56,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $45,000 |
| AZ FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUN | $40,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SEEDSPOT | $30,000 |
| NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| SOUNDS ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| DENVER UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICE | $15,000 |
| SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS | $11,000 |
| FREE ARTS | $10,000 |
| HATCH | $10,000 |
| TREASURER 4 TEACHERS | $5,000 |
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, $614k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 20 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- NVNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK6× · 2019–2024 · $404k · revenue +143%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +196%- BIBLOOM365 INC7× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.
We facilitate effective, bipartisan partnerships needed to achieve educational excellence and scale success across arizona's public schools - both district and charter.
The mission of the tucson family food project is to provide meals for children who are struggling with food insecurity, while teaching them how to cook food for themselves in their own homes.
To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
Academic opportunity of arizona is a school tuition organization. as a local 501c3 non-profit, we provide scholarships and support for k-12th grade children living with disabilities and low-income hardships. our 360 degree approach…
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
To elevate the teaching profession in southern arizona by empowering and celebrating prek-12 teacher excellence through community engagement and investment.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donorschooseorg and the most unlike its peers is Every Child Reading. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 74 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 NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLOOM365 INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS TUCSON ↗
- Who funds SEED SPOT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT MY CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUNDS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW WAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STEPS OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds BALSZ COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Integrated Family Community Services ↗
- Who funds VILLA MONTESSORI INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds STACY FUSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY CHILD READING ↗
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: 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
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 Kiita 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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