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The Kimel Foundation at a glance

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The Kimel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$227k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$206kEmployment$155kCrime & Legal$95kEducation$50kAnimals$29kPhilanthropy$20kEnvironment$15kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Angels Castle$80,000
dc central kitchen$50,000
Innocence Project$35,000
Kettering City Schools Forward Foundation$20,000
St Xavier High School$20,000
United Way of Greater Cincinnati$10,000
Teen Court of Sarasota Inc$5,000
Green Umbrella$5,000
KARE$1,000
Angels Watch$500
Arts Wave$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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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Talbert House: $5k → 16%Innocence Project: $35k → 17%Innocence Project: $35k → 17%Innocence Project: $25k → 17%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$502k · 8 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$502k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TD
    THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $155k · revenue +3%
  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +15%
  • UW
    United Way of Greater Cincinnati
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • PF
    PAWS FOR MILES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -17%
  • OW
    OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +42%
  • TH
    TALBERT HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +6%
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
The Ohio Environmental Council

To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.

Environment
2
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
3
Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc

Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.

Animals
4
Ohio Legal Help

Ohio legal help leverages technology and innovation to improve justice and fairness for all ohioans. our work removes barriers to the law so that all ohioans can understand their legal options, make informed decisions and connect to legal…

Crime & Legal
5
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc

Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…

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6
Paws Chicago

Paws chicago is a national leader in the no kill animal welfare movement, helping more than 23,842 homeless and at-risk pets each year through comprehensive spay/neuter, medical, and adoption programs.

Animals
7
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
8
Avenues for Justice Inc

Avenues for justice operates a progressive diversion program for nyc court-involved and at-risk youth, ages 13 to 24, through adapted hybrid online and onsite programming, and 24/7 mentorship with community-based court advocates, the…

Crime & Legal
9
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
10
The Collaborative to End Human Trafficking

The mission of the collaborative is to lead, empower and connect our community to eradicate human trafficking.

International
11
Columbus Cares for Cats
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12
Lake Humane Society

Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Talbert House; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

14 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. 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANGELS CASTLE: $205,000 · HealthANGELS CASTLETHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $155,000 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCKettering City Schools Forward Foundation: $20,000 · OtherKettering City Schools Forward Foundatio…ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · OtherST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL INCOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $4,775 · OtherTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJE…TALBERT HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesPAWS FOR MILES: $25,000 · AnimalsANGELS WATCH INC: $1,500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · AnimalsUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGREEN UMBRELLA: $15,000 · EnvironmentTEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Health$205,000Other$209,775Human Services$100,000Animals$27,500Philanthropy$20,000Environment$15,000Youth Development$10,000

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 budgetANGELS CASTLE: $205,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $155,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR MILES: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS WATCH INC: $1,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $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.

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 Greater Cincinnat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · 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 Kimel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kimel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Teen Court of Sarasota Inc: 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 · 0–50%
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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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By state
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