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The Kilkea Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Kilkea Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$96k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$776kArts & Culture$3kRecreation & Sports$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MICHAELS COLLEGE$96,200
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$2,000
SUNY OSWEGO$2,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$1,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$1,000
BOWDON COLLEGE$1,000
SUNY ONEONTA$1,000
NAZARETH COLLEGE$1,000
HAMILTON COLLEGE$1,000
FARMDALE STATE COLLEGE$1,000
SUNY CORTLAND$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO$1,000
HIGH SCHOOL OF SPORTS MEDICINE$100
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WELLSLLEY COLLEGE: $3k → 7%BECKER COLLEGE: $1k → 11%BERKLEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $1k → 16%MANSFIELD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%FARMDALE STATE COLLEGE: $1k → 22%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%RENSSELEAR POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%MARIST COLLEGE: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO: $1k → 13%SUNY ONEONTA: $1k → 13%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2k → 14%SUNY CORTLAND: $1k → 15%PAUL SMITH COLLEGE: $1k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $1k → 16%ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $1k → 17%SUNY OSWEGO: $2k → 17%NAZARETH COLLEGE: $1k → 18%SUNY BINGHAMTON: $1k → 20%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $1k → 10%BOWDON COLLEGE: $1k → 16%OHIO UNIVERSITY: $1k → 22%ST MICHAELS COLLEGE: $144k → 10%WELLSLLEY COLLEGE: $2k → 7%MARIST COLLEGE: $2k → 9%LE MOYNE COLLEGE: $4k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%ST MICHAELS COLLEGE: $107k → 10%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $2k → 7%LE MOYNE COLLEGE: $4k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%ST MICHAELS COLLEGE: $96k → 10%LE MOYNE COLLEGE: $4k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%ST MICHAELS COLLEGE: $50k → 10%LE MOYNE COLLEGE: $2k → 14%ST MICHAELS COLLEGE: $50k → 10%ST MICHAELS COLLEGE: $50k → 10%WELLS COLLEGE: $2k → 13%ST MICHAELS COLLEGE: $49k → 10%ST MICHAELS COLLEGE: $49k → 10%ST MICHAELS COLLEGE: $46k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
SC
GA
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$755k · 38 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
27

Total granted

$755k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-6%

Still filing today

50%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • Cornell University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +59%
  • LM
    Le Moyne College
    4× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +23%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • AS
    AMERICAN SCHOOL IN BARCELONA
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • SH
    SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • WP
    WINSTON PREP SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
8
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Whittier College

Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…

Education
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $641,935 · EducationSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE+23 more: $76,000 · Education+23 moreSUNY CORTLAND: $6,000 · OtherSUNY CORT…SUNY BINGHAMTON: $3,500 · OtherSUNY BING…ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $3,500 · OtherST BONAVE…OHIO UNIVERSITY: $3,500 · OtherOHIO UNIV…AMERICAN SCHOOL IN BARCELONA: $3,000 · OtherCAYUGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO: $2,500 · OtherBERKLEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $2,500 · Other+37 more: $37,250 · Other+37 more
Education$717,935Other$64,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $641,935 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLe Moyne College: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBECKER COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAZENOVIA COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $500 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.

  • Who funds SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Tuw Alice Koon FBO Sc…Central New York Comm…Wilkes-Desmond Educat…Gazin Norbert L Educa…Jessie H Baker Educat…The Greater Norwich F…Verizon FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tuw Alice Koon FBO Scholastic FundNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tuw Alice Koon FBO Scholastic Fund · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Wilkes-Desmond Educational Foundation · Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · The Greater Norwich Foundation · Verizon Foundation · 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 Kilkea Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kilkea Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Saint Michael's College: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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