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The Norman and Joan Kinsey 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.

$748k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$748k10%
FY202317$566k29%
FY202218$602k0%
FY202123$595k0%
FY202023$583k22%
FY201920$495k20%
FY201821$409k19%
FY201718$349kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$996kFood & Nutrition$675kInternational$85kRecreation & Sports$50kArts & Culture$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WY
IN
CA
KY
AZ
NC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $405,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $365,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetFootsteps Child Care Inc: $307,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSan Antonio Food Bank: $270,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRenu Hope Foundation: $249,125 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSouth Coast Montessori School: $159,500 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetSanta Cruz Montessori School: $146,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSan Jose Day Nursery: $122,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMontessori de Terra Linda: $91,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMontessori in Redlands Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCountry Montessori School of Poway: $75,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJason's Friends Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetPresidio Knolls School Inc: $62,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMorgan's Wonderland: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Principled Academy Inc: $43,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetOak Knoll Montessori School: $41,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetExcelsior Academy: $36,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAngie's Angels Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTexas Burn Survivor Society Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetGreater Phoenix Urban League Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetStop Soldier Suicide Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWarrior Foundation Freedom Station: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorthern California Bleeding Disorders Foundation Formerly Hemophilia Foundtn: $22,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMagic Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVons Vision Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCasa Montessori Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Refuge Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation

How much does The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation give?
The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $748,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (28%), Human Services (26%), Education (23%).
Who are The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Food Bank Inc ($405k), George Mark Childrens Fund ($365k), Footsteps Child Care Inc ($307k).
Does The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation based?
The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation is based in CA.

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 38 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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