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The Kite Key Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $50,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA | $50,000 |
| O'GORMAN GARDEN INC | $35,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $30,000 |
| SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC | $25,000 |
| HORIZONS NEW YORK CITY | $25,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $25,000 |
| PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS COUNCIL LOS ANGELES | $20,000 |
| THE NONZERO FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $15,000 |
| REPRESENT US EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $348k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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.
82 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- TCTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +53%
- SASAINT ANN'S SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $282k · revenue +36%
Feeding America6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- CICIVIC INFLUENCERS INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -52%
- IFINDEPENDENT FILM PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $50k
- ACACCELERATE CHANGE INCone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue -7%
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.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Penumbra Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
72 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. 72 of the 101 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 THE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds O'GORMAN GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Youth Service America ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NONZERO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO CAMPUS COMPACT ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds CIVIC INFLUENCERS INC ↗
- Who funds Feel Good Action ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
- Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS COUNCIL LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOUSE 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 New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Rodney L White Foundation Inc · The James Family Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Aspen Community Foundation · The San Francisco 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 Kite Key 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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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