· Private foundation
The Kivowitz Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WALLIS ANNENBERG CNT FOR PERFORMING | $25,000 |
| RACE TO ERASE MS | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR HUMANE ECONOMY | $24,165 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,328 |
| VOGEL ALCOVE | $10,000 |
| SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $10,000 |
| SCHREINER UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FU | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES | $4,500 |
| CRETE ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| GENESIS WOMENS' SHELTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,404 |
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 (FY20–24, $86k) 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 +26% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 11 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK2× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +35%
- VAVOGEL ALCOVE5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +70%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- UCUCLA CANCEER CENTERone grant, 2020 · $150k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $140k · revenue -51%
- JCJOHNSON CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $125k
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.
Supporting and assisting with rescue, sheltering, spay/neuter, and rehoming of cats and dogs in needy developing countries. Our current exclusive focus is on Egypt and the Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals.
To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…
Animal care and rescue
We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…
Humane World for Animals, Inc., formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States (The Organization), seeks to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O
Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Defenders of Animal Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is J L 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 158 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 UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Last Chance for Animals ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds RACE TO ERASE MS ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals International ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eastwood Ranch Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds The Abraham Foundation ↗
- Who funds Born Free USA united with API ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE 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 Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Best Friends Animal Society · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc
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 Kivowitz Charitable 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.