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The Kirkwood Foundation Im 2573-07-43

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.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$142kEnvironment$107kHuman Services$42kHealth$36kArts & Culture$36kYouth Development$26kFood & Nutrition$10kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $186k
$7,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Anne K Taylor Fund$33,250
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST$25,000
MSK RICHARD DIVER ENDOWED$21,250
Deerfield Academy$18,750
AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL$16,000
I Have A Dream Foundation$15,000
YOUNG LIFE$11,250
PROJECT HOME$10,000
PEACHTREE CHURCH$10,000
BRANDYWINE BALLET COMPANY$7,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro$5,000
NATURAL LANDS TRUST$5,000
Brandywine Conservancy$5,000
Montana Land Reliance$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%St Joseph'S House: $6k → 6%St Joseph'S House: $6k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $10k → 22%ST JOSEPH'S HOUSE: $4k → 6%ST JOSEPH'S HOUSE: $4k → 6%ST JOSEPH'S HOUSE: $3k → 6%St Joseph'S House: $3k → 6%St Joseph'S House: $3k → 6%LASATA: $3k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $2k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $2k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $2k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $2k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $2k → 6%QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES: $4k → 6%La Cuminidad Hispana: $1k → 6%QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES: $4k → 6%La Cuminidad Hispana: $1k → 6%QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES: $2k → 6%La Cuminidad Hispana: $1k → 6%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

MT
NY
MA
PA
CO
TN
NC
SC
GA
TX
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$297k · 15 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$297k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+20%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • AK
    ANNE K TAYLOR FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $58k · revenue +38%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $44k · revenue +102%
  • SJ
    St Josephs House Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • L
    LASATA
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -100%
  • HP
    HISTORIC PHILADELPHIA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · 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.

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
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
5
The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc

Winterthur builds upon the vision of Henry Francis du Pont to inspire and educate through its collections, estate, and academic programs by engaging diverse audiences in the study, preservation, and interpretation of American material…

Arts & Culture
6
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
7
Chestnut Hill Conservancy

The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.

Arts & Culture
8
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
9
Trust for Architectural Easements

The Trust will be a leading force in the preservation of America's architectural heritage. The Trust accepts donations of historic preservation easements to protect buildings.

Arts & Culture
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
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
12
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Agnes Irwin School; the most unlike its peers is Lasata. 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

21 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. 21 of the 30 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)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MSK RICHARD DIVER ENDOWED: $21,250 · OtherMSK RICHARD DIVER ENDOWEDBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro: $15,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters o…Shepherd Center: $12,500 · OtherShepherd CenterAbramson Cancer Center: $10,000 · OtherAbramson Cancer CenterLasata Farm: $10,000 · OtherLasata FarmPEACHTREE CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherPEACHTREE CHURCHNational Museum of Racing: $9,000 · OtherNational Museum of RacingBRANDYWINE BALLET COMPANY: $7,000 · OtherBRANDYWINE BALLET COMPANY+2 more: $4,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $43,750 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACA…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSIT…THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $16,000 · EducationTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL+2 more: $5,000 · EducationSt Josephs House Inc: $29,000 · Human ServicesSt Josephs House …LCH Health and Community Services: $13,000 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Co…QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesQUEST THERAPEUTIC…PROJECT HOME: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMELASATA: $3,000 · Human ServicesANNE K TAYLOR FUND: $58,250 · AnimalsANNE K TAYLOR F…Willistown Conservation Trust Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentWillistown Co…THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $12,500 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA L…Natural Lands Trust Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentNatural Lands…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Crime & LegalBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $12,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC PHILADELPHIA INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG LIFE: $11,250 · Youth Development
Other$98,750Education$94,750Human Services$65,000Animals$58,250Environment$48,500Crime & Legal$25,000Arts & Culture$19,500Youth Development$11,250

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 budgetANNE K TAYLOR FUND: $58,250 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $43,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSt Josephs House Inc: $29,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $11,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE BALLET COMPANY: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC PHILADELPHIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc: $1,000 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.

Chester County Commun…Renaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Chester County Community FoundationPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Kirkwood Foundation Im 2573-07-43 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kirkwood Foundation Im 2573-07-43. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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