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The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK$5,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$5,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$5,000
ALTADENA BRICK BY BRICK$5,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$5,000
ALIGHT$5,000
ALIGHT$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$5,000
CALMATTERS$5,000
NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$5,000
BIRD RESCUE CENTER$2,500
HEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,500
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT$2,500
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.

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Its 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. Its 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%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1k → 14%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $3k → 9%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $3k → 9%REACH FOR HOME: $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
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

MN
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
NM
DC
AL
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

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InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camfed Usa Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALIGHT: $44,000 · InternationalALIGHTCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATI…CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $10,000 · InternationalCHILDREN INCORPORAT…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $5,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalGLOBAL LINKS: $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…LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY - LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY …Girls on the Run Sonoma County: $10,000 · OtherGirls on the Run Sonoma Coun…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 3y, 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 budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGirls on the Run Sonoma County: $10,000 over 5y, 1.9% 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 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 budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalMatters: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LINKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESOLUTE ACADEMY INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH FOR HOME: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $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
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.

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

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 Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.

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

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