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The Kipp Nelson 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 $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED STATES SKI ASSOCIATION | $55,000 |
| WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION | $13,829 |
| APU NORDIC SKI CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- UUSSA6× · 2017–2022 · $837k
- SSVSEF4× · 2017–2022 · $477k
- USUnited States Ski Association2× · 2023–2024 · $339k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- HGHIGHER GROUND USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +26%
- JFJazz Foundation of America Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -42%
- CCClub Champions League Incone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -64%
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.
Operates for the benefit and support of world-class skiing and snowboarding, including coaching and training athletes in these sports.
To create champions on and off the mountain by developing life skills and providing growth opportunities through participation in sports.
The sun valley ski education foundation, inc. is dedicated to providing winter sports programs for the youth of the wood river valley, to include all ability and interest levels, regardless of each participant's economic level. the primary…
Operates exclusively to manage the investment of endowment gifts made for the benefit of supporting the development, training, and competition of elite national, international, and development athletes in skiing and snowboarding.
The Organization is a competitive alpine sports club, fostering the development of alpine athletes of every age, with each athlete representing the highest level of sportsmanship, teamwork, leadership, and personal responsibility.
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It is our mission to provide this community with an athletic environment that allows each athlete to reach their potential and pursue their life's goals through through snow sports.
Big Sky Ski Education Foundation offers competitive Alpine, Freeride, and Nordic skiing programs.
To be the Nationally Governing Body of Team Ski and Snowboard Competition at the Collegiate Level and provide competition and development opportunities for student activities in a team atmosphere. Determining National Championships in each…
United states skiing foundation is engaged in not-for-profit membership, competition, training, development, and educational activities related to amateur skiers and snowboarders who are, or aspire to become, members of the u.s. ski and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sarasota Boxing Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 United States Ski Association ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Club Champions League Inc ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA BOXING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds COCHRANS SKI AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Bald Mountain Rescue Fund ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds BOB BEATTIE SKI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Quinn Family Foundation Inc · Heinz Family Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Kipp Nelson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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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