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The Kisco Foundation Inc

The primary exempt purpose of the kisco foundation, inc.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$5.0MArts & Culture$1.4MPublic Benefit$1.0MEducation$745kCrime & Legal$300kHousing & Shelter$50kScience & Tech$15k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k10 grants · $875k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VINEYARD JOURNALISM FOUNDATION INC (SEE ALSO SCHEDULE O)$1,100,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO SCHOOL OF LAW$150,000
THE CITY REPORT INC$100,000
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT$100,000
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS INC$100,000
VETVOICE FOUNDATION$100,000
RE-THINK MEDIA INC$100,000
CIVIC NATION$75,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS$50,000
UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE$50,000
INDIVISIBLE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC$50,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $50k → 14%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

IL
NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 7 repeat orgs$710k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$7.8M
$360k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • VV
    VET VOICE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +845%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +34%
  • IR
    INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • EP
    EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +44%
  • WR
    WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +96%
  • CC
    CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +24%
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
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
Augustana College

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…

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Open Campus Media Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
Lehigh University

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…

Education
9
Wilson College

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

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

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.

—
11
Point Park University

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…

—
12
The George Washington University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Education Success Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VINEYARD GAZETTE JOURNALISM FOUND INC FKA THE PLAN FOR SOCIAL EXCELLENCE INC: $6,050,000 · OtherVINEYARD GAZETTE JOURNALISM FOUND INC FKA THE PLAN FOR SOCIAL EXCELLENCE INCUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $300,000 · Other+1 more: $15,000 · OtherVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 · Civil RightsVET VOICE …PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $100,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DE…INDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $50,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBL…ReThink Media: $150,000 · EducationCivic Nation: $125,000 · EducationEL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationCHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $37,500 · EducationINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCity Report Inc: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $50,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS EDUCATION SUCCESS INC: $22,000 · Public Benefit
Other$6,365,000Civil Rights$800,000Education$637,500Arts & Culture$310,000Philanthropy$300,000Human Services$50,000Public Benefit$22,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVINEYARD GAZETTE JOURNALISM FOUND INC FKA THE PLAN FOR SOCIAL EXCELLENCE INC: $6,050,000 over 5y, 98% of budgetVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetReThink Media: $150,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetCivic Nation: $125,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCity Report Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVETERANS EDUCATION SUCCESS INC: $22,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Kohlberg Foundati…Laura and John Arnold…Boston Foundation IncSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Kohlberg Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kisco Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kisco Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Chemeketa Community College Foundation: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Kisco Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 20 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 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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