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The Kl Felicitas 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.

$289k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$172k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$990kEducation$631kHousing & Shelter$101kHealth$86kArts & Culture$61kFood & Nutrition$50kCommunity Improvement$48kEnvironment$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $222k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$172,000
HAWAII INVESTMENT READY$50,000
TONIIC INSTITUTE$25,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY$20,000
DR SCHWARZ FOUNDATION$10,994
MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL$8,450
Individual grant recipient$3,000
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.

US giving: 73% of grant dollars ($2.0M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 27% that went abroad ($733k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ASU FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ACTBLUE CHARITIES: $1k → 8%FROM PASSTHROUGH ENTITY -: $1 → 8%CRITICAL RESISTANCE: $5k → 10%MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL: $15k → 10%THE NROC PROJECT: $2k → 12%KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER: $1k → 13%SEABURY HALL HIGH SCHOOL: $500 → 9%HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE: $1k → 9%IMPACT HUB HONOLULU: $10k → 9%HIPLAN: $10k → 15%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY: $20k → 17%FOURTH SECTOR GROUP: $25k → 14%CAPITAL INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%IMPACT ASSETS: $100k → 8%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL: $8k → 10%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $25k → 12%ALA KUKUI: $50k → 9%IMPACT HUB HONOLULU: $10k → 9%IMPACT ASSETS INC: $10k → 8%TONIIC INSTITUTE: $208k → 10%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $25k → 12%IMPACT HUB HONOLULU: $10k → 9%IMPACT ASSETS INC: $10k → 8%TONIIC INSTITUTE: $141k → 10%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $25k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%IMPACT ASSETS: $5k → 8%TONIIC INSTITUTE: $133k → 10%MONTEREY COUNTY GIVES: $10k → 12%HAWAII INVESTMENT READY: $125k → 9%TONIIC INSTITUTE: $111k → 10%COAST PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%HAWAII INVESTMENT READY: $50k → 9%TONIIC INSTITUTE: $51k → 10%HAWAII INVESTMENT READY: $268k → 9%TONIIC INSTITUTE: $25k → 10%HAWAII INVESTMENT READY: $100k → 9%TONIIC INSTITUTE: $25k → 10%HAWAII INVESTMENT READY: $50k → 9%TONIIC INSTITUTE: $25k → 10%HAWAII LAND TRUST: $20k → 9%D3JUBILEE: $925 → 10%WAI'ANAE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT: $4k → 9%EQUAL ACCESS: $500 → 10%FEED THE HUNGER FOUNDATION: $33k → 10%FEED THE HUNGER FOUNDATION: $17k → 10%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

NY
MA
CA
CO
MD
AZ
DC
HI

Beyond the US: 27% of all-years giving ($733k)

7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Germany$587k · 10 grants
United Kingdom$85k · 6 grants
Norway$35k · 2 grants
India$15k · 1 grant
Mexico$5k · 1 grant
Austria$5k · 2 grants
Poland$640 · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of The Kl Felicitas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Kl Felicitas Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 27% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 11 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +148% since the first grant, against +93% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
28

Total granted

$2.2M
$296k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+148%
+93%

Still filing today

55%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementInternationalCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • TI
    TONIIC INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $719k · revenue +81%
  • HI
    HAWAII INVESTMENT READY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $593k · revenue +224% · 38% of their budget
  • HC
    HAWAII COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $76k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -56%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +39%
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
3
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
6
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
7
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
8
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
11
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toniic Institute; the most unlike its peers is The Nroc Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TONIIC INSTITUTE: $718,868 · PhilanthropyTONIIC INSTITUTEIMPACTASSETSINC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY+3 more: $46,000 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $536,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKATAPULT FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · Other+21 more: $168,055 · Other+21 moreHAWAII INVESTMENT READY: $592,971 · EducationHAWAII INVESTMENT READYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $25,000 · Education+3 more: $15,000 · EducationHAWAII COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT CORPORATION: $75,750 · Housing & ShelterFEED THE HUNGER FUND: $50,000 · InternationalFOURTH SECTOR GROUP INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMCE SOCIAL CAPITAL: $23,005 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,100 · Community ImprovementHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $20,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$964,868Other$879,555Education$692,971Housing & Shelter$75,750International$50,000Community Improvement$49,105Environment$20,000

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 budgetTONIIC INSTITUTE: $718,868 over 8y, 11% of budgetHAWAII INVESTMENT READY: $592,971 over 5y, 38% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT CORPORATION: $75,750 over 2y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE HUNGER FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMCE SOCIAL CAPITAL: $23,005 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCritical Resistance: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe NROC Project: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION: $1,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKuumbwa Jazz Society: $1,000 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.

Stupski FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The San Francisco Fou…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Stupski FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stupski Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Kl Felicitas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kl Felicitas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Kl Felicitas Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Kl Felicitas Foundation 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 44 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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