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The Kohlberg Foundation Inc

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.

$19M
Granted FY2022
110
Grants FY2022
14
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

78% of The Kohlberg Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Kohlberg Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 74 organizations, $19M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

63
’17
63
’18
65
’19
70
’20
71
’21
74
’22
16
’23
8
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$47MPublic Benefit$33MHuman Services$27MEducation$23MCrime & Legal$19MHealth$14MArts & Culture$9.4MCivil Rights$5.0MOther$0
02FY2022 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k22 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $255k
  • $50k–250k51 grants · $5.7M
  • $250k+22 grants · $13M
$100,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$210M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$3,000,000
SPONSORS$2,500,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE$1,000,000
SPONSORS$900,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO SCHOOL OF LAW$500,000
HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC$450,000
HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC$350,000
SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$300,000
THE MERSERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION$250,000
BLACK VOTERS MATTER CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE$250,000
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS INC$250,000
CIVIC NATION$250,000
PUBLIC CITIZENS FOUNDATION$250,000
FAIR ELECTIONS CENTER$250,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Hour Children: $125k → 13%United States Veterans Initiative: $100k → 14%HOUR CHILDREN: $50k → 13%United States Veterans Initiative: $100k → 14%Hour Children: $25k → 13%United States Veterans Initiative: $100k → 14%Hour Children: $25k → 13%United States Veterans Initiative: $100k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $100k → 14%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $15k → 17%Puppies Behind Bars: $15k → 17%Puppies Behind Bars: $10k → 17%Puppies Behind Bars: $10k → 17%Puppies Behind Bars: $10k → 17%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $5k → 20%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $125k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $125k → 8%Martha's Vineyard Community Services: $100k → 8%Martha's Vineyard Community Services: $100k → 8%Martha's Vineyard Community Services: $75k → 8%Martha's Vineyard Community Services: $75k → 8%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $200k → 9%Mount Kisco Child Care Center: $150k → 9%Neighbors Link: $125k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $100k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $100k → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $50k → 9%Mount Kisco Child Care Center: $50k → 9%HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $5k → 8%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $50k → 9%Mount Kisco Child Care Center: $50k → 9%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $10k → 17%HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $5k → 8%Mount Kisco Child Care Center: $50k → 9%Neighbors Link: $25k → 9%Neighbors Link: $25k → 9%Hospice of Martha's Vineyard: $5k → 8%Neighbors Link: $25k → 9%Hospice of Martha's Vineyard: $5k → 8%Hospice of Martha's Vineyard: $3k → 8%Hospice of Martha's Vineyard: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of The Kohlberg Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Kohlberg Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$103M · 100 repeat orgs$66M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

100 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2022, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
34

Total granted

$103M
$65M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+42%

Still filing today

80%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
Civil RightsEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +206%
  • NI
    NOVA INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +259%
  • SI
    SPONSORS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +74% · 67% of their budget

Funded once

  • CB
    CARDINAL BROOK TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $16M · revenue +7% · 72% of their budget
  • KC
    KISCO CARES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $16M · revenue -28% · 97% of their budget
  • CF
    CAMALOTTE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $16M · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Npr Foundation

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…

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4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
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
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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8
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
12
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camalotte 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Ymca Youth DevelopmentYouth Development ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersElementary Literacy TutoringAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%28%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/121
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,444

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.

05the grantee network

117 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. 117 of the 150 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/117
Grantees still filing
84/117
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CARDINAL BROOK TRUST — $16,000,000 · OtherCARDINAL BROOK TRUSTKovin Foundation — $16,000,000 · OtherKovin FoundationSPONSORS INC — $8,650,000 · OtherSPONSORS INCUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $3,000,000 · Other+83 more — $14,215,916 · Other+83 moreKISCO CARES FOUNDATION — $16,000,000 · PhilanthropyKISCO CARES FOUNDATIONCAMALOTTE FOUNDATION — $16,000,000 · PhilanthropyCAMALOTTE FOUNDATIONNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $4,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE G…NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $2,100,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $2,095,000 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC — $2,000,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $812,300 · PhilanthropyKUNHARDT FILM FOUNDATION INC — $20,150,000 · Arts & CultureKUNHARDT FILM FO…MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION — $5,550,000 · Arts & CultureMESERVE-KUNHARDT…INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC — $1,100,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $585,000 · Arts & CultureWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $12,702,500 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNA…CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC — $5,500,000 · EducationCRAIG NEWMARK GR…HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $4,201,030 · EducationHUDSON LINK FOR …Civic Nation — $1,650,000 · EducationCivic Nation+11 more — $1,931,000 · Education+11 moreINDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $4,900,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $1,750,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $850,000 · Civil RightsFair Elections Center — $800,000 · Civil RightsYOUNG INVINCIBLES — $750,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $725,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICES — $400,000 · Civil Rights+11 more — $1,315,000 · Civil RightsNOVA INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INC — $10,250,000 · Health+5 more — $453,000 · HealthFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $3,000,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $600,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$57,865,916Philanthropy$46,007,300Arts & Culture$27,385,000Education$25,984,530Civil Rights$11,990,000Health$10,703,000Community Improvement$3,610,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKUNHARDT FILM FOUNDATION INC — $20,150,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetCARDINAL BROOK TRUST — $16,000,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetKISCO CARES FOUNDATION — $16,000,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $12,702,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetNOVA INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INC — $10,250,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetSPONSORS INC — $8,650,000 over 8y, 67% of budgetMESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION — $5,550,000 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC — $5,500,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $4,900,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $4,201,030 over 8y, 33% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $4,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $3,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $3,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $3,000,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $2,100,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $2,095,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $1,750,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCivic Nation — $1,650,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetDRIVE CHANGE INC — $1,150,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC — $1,100,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $850,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFair Elections Center — $800,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — $800,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetYOUNG INVINCIBLES — $750,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC — $725,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $725,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $660,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER — $600,300 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $600,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $600,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc — $600,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $550,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE — $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $475,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP — $400,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSTATE VOICES — $400,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $350,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $350,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $320,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD — $302,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVALUES UNITED — $300,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The New York Communit…Martha's Vineyard Ban…Jewish Communal FundBoston Foundation IncThe Ford FoundationDemocracy Fund IncHopewell FundNew York Women's Foun…ImpactassetsincNew Venture FundCardinal Brook TrustMartha's Vineyard Com…
The New York Community TrustNY31× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · Cardinal Brook Trust · Martha's Vineyard Community 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 Kohlberg 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Sponsors Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's — 5% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Biodiversityworks Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
20report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Kohlberg Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Kohlberg 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 150 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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