· Private foundation
The Kind Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $31,901 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LIFEWAY NETWORK INC | $1,000 |
| MARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC | $1,000 |
| HONNOLD FOUNDATION | $500 |
| HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD | $500 |
| THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION | $353 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $328 |
| DC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $258 |
| THE BENEVOLENCE FARM | $257 |
| CAMBA INC | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of The Kind Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +21%- HGHARLEM GROWN INC3× · 2018–2021 · $17k · revenue +222%
CITY YEAR INC2× · 2019–2020 · $9k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -61%
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.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
(see schedule o)
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 126 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Impactassetsinc · Share Our Strength · The San Francisco Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kind Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kind Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Veritans Club Inc: 100% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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