· Public charity
The Kisco Foundation Inc
The primary exempt purpose of the kisco foundation, inc.
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
- $50k–250k10 grants · $875k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VINEYARD JOURNALISM FOUNDATION INC (SEE ALSO SCHEDULE O) | $1,100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO SCHOOL OF LAW | $150,000 |
| PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $100,000 |
| RE-THINK MEDIA INC | $100,000 |
| THE CITY REPORT INC | $100,000 |
| INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS INC | $100,000 |
| VETVOICE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CIVIC NATION | $75,000 |
| INDIVISIBLE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC | $50,000 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS | $50,000 |
| UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +32% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k 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
- VVVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +845%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +34%
- IRINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- EPEL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +44%
- CCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +24%
- WRWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +96%
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Higher education shapes the future of every community in america-determining who moves up the economic ladder, where good jobs develop, and how regions prosper. this promise depends on the public's ability to see and understand how their…
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Education Success Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vineyard Gazette Journalism Found Inc Fka the Plan for Social Excellence Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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.
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 VINEYARD GAZETTE JOURNALISM FOUND INC FKA THE PLAN FOR SOCIAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds VET VOICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC ↗
- Who funds ReThink Media ↗
- Who funds Civic Nation ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds City Report Inc ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds INDIVISIBLE CIVICS ↗
- Who funds CHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS EDUCATION SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION 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: The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Kisco Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chemeketa Community College Foundation — 22% 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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