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.

The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation

The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$120k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% 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

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k12 grants · $232k
$50k–250k8 grants · $516k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$120,000
THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA	$65,000
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK	$60,000
GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S HOUSE	$60,000
RENU HOPE FOUNDATION	$56,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE	$55,000
MORGAN'S WONDERLAND	$50,000
FOOTSTEPS CHILD CARE INC	$50,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY	$30,000
Individual grant recipient	$30,000
SAN JOSE DAY NURSERY	$25,000
TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY	$20,000
JASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION	$20,000
SOUTH COAST MONTESSORI	$20,000
ANGIES' ANGELS FOUNDATION	$20,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $474k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.3M · 34 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.3M

$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+250%

Still filing today

74%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

GM
George Mark Childrens Fund
6× · 2019–2024 · $365k · revenue +61%
FC
FOOTSTEPS CHILD CARE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $307k · revenue +91%
SA
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
5× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +18%

Funded once

TR
THE REFUGE INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +250%
BH
BEVERLY HILLS CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

The Montessori School of San Antonio

The montessori school of san antonio (mssa) guides children to be passionate learners, independent thinkers, and engaged citizens. through the guiding principles of montessori curriculum and the school culture, children develop critical…

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The Montessori School

The Montessori School educates children from 18 months-6th grade. Our program is rooted in the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori faithful to her method. In our caring environment, sustained by freedom peace, the school…

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Montessori Childrens House of Nantucket Inc

MONTESSORI SCHOOL that works to create an environment that inspires children to develop inner discipline, self assurance, and a love of learning

Education

Discovery School of San Antonio

At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…

Education

Cypress School of San Francisco F/K/a Cow Hollow Preschool

Cypress school of san francisco is a play based full day program, serving children aged 2-5.9 years old. we are a parent participation school with a low teacher to child ratio and licensed master teachers on staff.

Education

Sunstone Montessori School Inc

To operate a school based on the educational model of maria montessori, including instruction for children ages 16 months to 15 years and with elementary and middle school for grades 1 through 8.

Education

The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary

The Montessori Method helps all children become truly capable and productive individuals by focusing on their moral, behavioral, emotional, and intellectual development. Our Montessori Guides are Association of Montessori Internationale…

Education

Maria Montessori Charter Academy

To provide a Montessori-based educational environment that has the tools programs resources and support to enable students to become educated to high international academic standards and to develop themselves to their fullest capacity as…

Education

Follow the Child Montessori School Inc

Our community empowers children to realize their unique human potential through a curriculum designed to foster independence, responsibility, and self-motivation. we nurture a love of learning and practice mutual respect, preparing our…

Education

Casa Di Mir Montessori Elementary School

To provide an authentic montessori education in a nurturing school community. with a strong emphasis on academics, creativity and peace education, we provide a learning experience that promotes confidence, individual responsibility and a…

Education

The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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Sullivan Montessori Inc

Preschool for children ages 18 months and up. Provide a well rounded program including a variety of classes such as cooking, art and yoga.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montessori in Redlands Inc; the most unlike its peers is Footsteps Child Care Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

21/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,082,000Education$878,625Human Services$474,000Health$447,000Food & Nutrition$415,000Recreation & Sports$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Norman and Joan Kinsey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home