· Private foundation
The Kirk Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FAMILY TREE INC | $107,500 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $100,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS KIMMEL CANCER | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +64% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +64%- TFTHE FAMILY TREE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $771k · revenue +109%
- UFULMAN FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2023 · $212k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- UFUlman Fundone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY AREA CHARITIESone grant, 2018 · $250
- MCMARINE CORPS LEAGUE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $200 · revenue +20%
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Fundraising for capital improvements, scholarships, and other healthcare programs for missouri delta medical center.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Lifebridge health is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health and well-being of all people in greater baltimore, with special emphasis on baltimore city and baltimore and carroll counties. in so doing, lifebridge is committed to…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds ULMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kirk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kirk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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