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The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc

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.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

International$102kCivil Rights$81kAnimals$74kEnvironment$70kHuman Services$58kFood & Nutrition$54kEducation$38kYouth Development$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC$10,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$5,000
ALTADENA BRICK BY BRICK$5,000
CALMATTERS$5,000
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK$5,000
NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$5,000
ALIGHT$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$5,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$5,000
ALIGHT$5,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$5,000
RUSSIAN RIVERKEEPER$2,500
BIRD RESCUE CENTER$2,500
HEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,500
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 (FY18–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICE CENTER: $4k → 8%FREEDOM READS: $3k → 12%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $3k → 11%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICE CENTER: $3k → 8%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $3k → 11%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICE CENTER: $3k → 8%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 8%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $5k → 14%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $3k → 9%REACH FOR HOME: $3k → 9%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1k → 14%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $3k → 9%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $3k → 9%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $2k → 9%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

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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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$493k · 24 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
21

Total granted

$493k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • TB
    THE BIRD RESCUE CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +676%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +102%
  • A
    ALIGHT
    7× · 2018–2025 · $44k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CI
    CHILDREN INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • HL
    HEALTH LIFELINE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Global Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -33%

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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
3
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
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
8
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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9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
11
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
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camfed Usa Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Santa Fe Raptor Center. 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 backsteadyDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesSchool District FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,515

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 51 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
31/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALIGHT — $44,000 · InternationalALIGHTCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $20,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATI…CHILDREN INCORPORATED — $10,000 · InternationalCHILDREN INCORPORAT…INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $5,000 · InternationalGLOBAL LINKS — $5,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · International+1 more — $3,000 · InternationalGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INCFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WO…PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER — $12,000 · Human ServicesPETALUMA PEOPLE S…SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $10,000 · Human ServicesSCOPA HAS A DREAM…ONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesONE SIMPLE WISH I…+4 more — $6,500 · Human Services+4 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $56,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $14,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE …GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $5,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW C…CalMatters — $5,000 · Civil RightsCalMattersTHE BIRD RESCUE CENTER — $57,500 · AnimalsTHE BIRD RESC…SANTA FE RAPTOR CENTER — $16,950 · AnimalsSANTA FE RAPT…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $31,600 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESO…SONOMA LAND TRUST — $16,500 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND …Russian Riverkeeper — $14,000 · EnvironmentRussian Rive…COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT — $7,500 · EnvironmentCOALITION FO…Girls on the Run Sonoma County — $10,000 · OtherGirls on the Run Sonoma Coun…LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY - LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY …HEALTH LIFELINE INC — $10,000 · OtherHEALTH LIFELINE INCHEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherHEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDAT…GREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC — $10,000 · OtherGREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHI…A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT — $12,500 · OtherA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PR…Planned Parenthood Global Inc — $8,000 · OtherNational Network to End Domestic Violence Inc — $25,000 · OtherNational Network to End Dome…NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INCDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Other+11 more — $33,250 · Other+11 moreREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $32,500 · Food & Nutrition
International$107,000Human Services$93,500Civil Rights$80,500Animals$74,450Environment$69,600Other$151,250Food & Nutrition$32,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BIRD RESCUE CENTER — $57,500 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $56,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT — $44,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $32,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $31,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network to End Domestic Violence Inc — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE RAPTOR CENTER — $16,950 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST — $16,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRussian Riverkeeper — $14,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER — $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGirls on the Run Sonoma County — $10,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Global Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LINKS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOLUTE ACADEMY INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH FOR HOME — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 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.

Sonoma County Communi…Messing Family Charit…Sonoma County Vintner…Anthony Crabb and Bar…The San Francisco Fou…California Community …The Ayco Charitable F…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Messing Family Charitable Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Anthony Crabb and Barbara Grasseschi Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Margaret and Jennifer Kress 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Freedom Reads Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report 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.

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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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